{"id":158937,"date":"2025-11-29T01:28:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T01:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/158937\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T01:28:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T01:28:10","slug":"mana-motuhake-maori-maori-sovereignty-labour-sets-out-ambitious-pitch-to-win-back-maori-seats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/158937\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Mana motuhake M\u0101ori \u2013 M\u0101ori sovereignty\u2019: Labour sets out ambitious pitch to win back M\u0101ori seats"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tangaere-Manuel\u2019s ambitious speech talked up Labour\u2019s record on M\u0101ori issues \u2013 a direct challenge to Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori, whose ability to go far further on some policy areas has been attractive to voters in the M\u0101ori electorates put off by Labour\u2019s centrism. <\/p>\n

She noted the growth of the M\u0101ori economy, enhanced by money from Treaty settlements, comparing it to Labour\u2019s Future Fund policy, a state-led investment fund. <\/p>\n

Speaking about the M\u0101ori economy, she said, \u201cwe [Labour] see your moemoea, your dreams to restore the intergenerational wealth, and the health, of your people, and of our whenua.<\/p>\n

\u201cLabour doesn\u2019t fear that. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe support it,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

Tangaere-Manuel even reached back into history and recalled it was a member of the Labour Government that \u201csought to entrench Te Tiriti o Waitangi\u201d.<\/p>\n

Geoffrey Palmer, a minister and later Prime Minister in the fourth Labour Government, published a white paper on his Bill of Rights reforms in 1985 that proposed entrenching the Bill of Rights, which would have incorporated the Treaty. In the original version, it would have made the bill\u2019s version of the Treaty supreme law, allowing non-compliant law to be struck down. <\/p>\n

The policy was not overly popular with a number of M\u0101ori at the time. <\/p>\n

As it happened, Palmer\u2019s colleagues did not let him go that far and the end result is a much weaker Bill of Rights Act.<\/p>\n

Labour does not currently have a policy to try to entrench the Treaty. <\/p>\n

The line was a nod to Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori, which began the year announcing an ambitious constitutional policy of its own, a Treaty Commissioner<\/a>, to report on whether the Government was complying with Te Tiriti. <\/p>\n

\"Labour'sLabour’s finance spokeswoman Barbara Edmonds. Photo \/ Mark Mitchell<\/p>\n

Statements from the party were inconsistent on the crucial point of whether the commissioner would be able to strike-down legislation that was non-compliant \u2013 a major constitutional change, if true. <\/p>\n

In her speech to the conference, Edmonds launched a searing attack on the \u201cwreckage of Christopher Luxon\u2019s broken promises and economic mismanagement\u201d and promised to restore \u201chope\u201d.<\/p>\n

She also addressed some of the perceived failings of the last Labour Government, in which she served as a junior minister. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve heard the lesson of last term: too much, too fast, and not enough finished.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople heard the promises \u2013 and often supported the intent \u2013 but didn\u2019t always see the change in their lives,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

She also promised she would \u201cnever waver in my commitment to fiscal responsibility\u201d \u2013 a promise that tends to mean eventually achieving a balanced budget.<\/p>\n

\"ActAct leader David Seymour went on the attack. Photo \/ Michael Craig<\/p>\n

Act leader David Seymour wasted no time in laying into Labour on that front this morning.<\/p>\n

As Labour members gathered, he rushed out a press release drawing attention to the fact Labour has promised to reverse the coalition\u2019s pay equity reforms, which reduced the cost of the scheme by $12.8 billion, by reducing the number of sectors who can enter the scheme and the likely amount they can get under it.<\/p>\n

Seymour claimed Labour\u2019s numbers didn\u2019t \u201cstack up\u201d. <\/p>\n

\u201cEven just reinstating Labour\u2019s pay\u2011equity regime will leave a $13b hole in the books, so you can practically hear Hipkins\u2019 new taxes rolling into the station. His capital gains tax doesn\u2019t save him, it will take years to raise a single billion and Hipkins needs 13.<\/p>\n

\u201cHigher taxes hurt firms and families, but they also don\u2019t solve our problems. Labour\u2019s previous spending increases failed to deliver better public services. Emergency rooms were left in chaos and schools weren\u2019t teaching kids to read,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tangaere-Manuel\u2019s ambitious speech talked up Labour\u2019s record on M\u0101ori issues \u2013 a direct challenge to Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43699,4523,1863,124,2841,104792,42678,71,266,6721,27699,74384,2720,104790,111,43,139,69,3111,7234,6725,10010,2687,56638,1973,77366,104791,104793,223,61,24687,6027,102],"class_list":["post-158937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-achieve","tag-ambitious","tag-back","tag-could","tag-country","tag-cushla","tag-electorate","tag-from","tag-government","tag-labour","tag-labours","tag-mana","tag-mori","tag-motuhake","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-out","tag-partys","tag-pitch","tag-promise","tag-saying","tag-seats","tag-sets","tag-sole","tag-sovereignty","tag-tangaeremanuel","tag-the","tag-to","tag-voters","tag-win","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}