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APR
Marchers casting net wide
Posted by karere under Maori News
Organisers of a hikoi to protest against the Government’s decision not to provide special Maori seats on the proposed Super City council hope to attract 10,000 people from across the ethnic spectrum. Ngarimu Blair of Ngati Whatua o Orakei said marchers would converge from four main points of Auckland for the hikoi on May 25. He hoped a wide range of Aucklanders would take part, because although the debate focused on the seats, the wider argument was about diversity. “It’s a rights-based issue about diversity in representation. First-past-the-post has always delivered for the majority and no one else.” Interest from Maori around the country had been high, he said. “Just as the Crown [is] probably scared about creating a precedent [by providing Maori seats], Maori are scared another precedent [will be set] where there will be no Maori seats anywhere else in the country at local government level.”
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We have a Tiriti to consult, regarding any racial group of people vying for special privileges over others, and it says quite clearly in Article 3 “Maori are to treated the same as the people of England.”
exactly!(agreeing with previous comment) It is John Key’s oversight and primary focus on capitalism. It is paramount that Maori reps are on the “super city” council. Diversity is one thing but protection of maori is the issue here. This is apparently a multicultural environment now. People need to consider this as Maori and everyone else. That is why the treaty is there-to protect the existing culture of Aotearoa.