Maori Marxists The Harawira Files

whenever I Googled you it would go multi activist I mean I wonder what you would put under your name not activists you know that that's a pack term for rubbish radical Mal activists planning the overthrow of the New Zealand government why should we be told by the Europeans how to live on our land M was involved in gotat from 19771 from the earliest of days very much involved in politics of Mali the police and the Navy pushing Back N tamur from the edge of the um treaty grounds the whole group of us went up to the treaty grounds around lunchtime Paul CA lowered the white the Navy's white enzyme and attempted to set fire to it with a copy of the Communist Party newspapers people's voice on which was printed the articles of the treaty everyone else was bailed up by the by the by the hurriedly assembled um uh Sailors and police with a rope guarding tamy ETI who stayed behind until the authorities got sick of uh his intervention and he was grabbed and marched to the gate of the treaty grounds and picked up and bodily thrown out the gate the saddest thing is that um I go to marai all over New Zealand I have never known ever um anybody to behave in the way that she and her daughter behaved at um TI I it was verbal abuse um yelling and swearing actual swear words and you know trying to drown out uh speakers at the H closing of the mai health unit at carington hospital on the grounds that the unit was being used by a small group of Mai radicals as a political platform there have been allegations of attempted rapes theft misappropriation of Hospital vehicles and equipment and the coordinator of the unit to defy hwi and four other staff are to stand trial in February on charges of assault and threatening to kill a patient line to this this day and this day is the beginning of Mai language week and also the beginning of a crown Mari partnership what does that mean for the crown to honor that our CH signed and oh man I am so proud to be sitting here today after years of struggle and shouting and carrying on now as all of you all know we already as a crown have uh roughly 7,000 commitments that we have made uh to e around the country as a result of the treaty negotiation um and settlement process we need now to make sure that we honor those commitments on an ongoing basis as the crown but that's not all we also need to make sure that we are true to that partnership and the way that we operate as a government her today and I honor her excuse me uh for the role she played I never accepted the commentary of toi was just and some trite way holding the hand of prime minister she was doing far more than that and I miss her today and I honor her excuse me uh for the role she played because we had Fierce debates I mean you know strong women stood up to each other but I understood what she was doing and she understood what I needed to do I treasure her her Legacy will be I hope that that continued balance uh will be available to us all and I think it's therefore appropriate that I be here as prime minister to remember her on behalf of the people of New Zealand tifi was a very strong woman with a strong heart with Integrity with passion and first and foremost a caring mother and a caring man the former prime minister the right honorable jinda adur has asked me to share a few words on her behalf to the withano I'm sorry I could not be there today but my adoha is with all of you I remember standing awaiting the call to begin my first work on toar Runa as prime minister I felt comforted I knew tii had my hand and I knew that it would be all right I hoped that what I had done in the past 12 months would have been good enough because if I knew knew that if she didn't think so I would soon be told tii gave me a unique perspective I will miss holding her hand I will miss being beside her and I will miss our chance but I will never forget her yes oh yes oh yes I got to I got to raise this one apparently going to White tongy was important this year let me tell you let me tell you something I would never have believed that some political leader would walk onto the lower Mari at White Tangi with someone with a conviction and a jail sentence for the brutalization of children oh yes oh yes I'll tell you what the National Party tough love policy on crime is about I got a photograph of it that's real tough love from a criminal facing serious charges is that's a tough love policy I bet all the gangsters are Tre are trembling in their knock knees at the [Music] moment you know what that story tells me is what that story tells me alongside TV Zed is that not only does crime pay the tax pay is now paying for it and the man who wants to be the alternative prime minister thinks it's okay because it's politically correct you get you get it you get taken onto the Mari by a person convicted in 1988 and a jail sentence for the brutalization and the organized brutalization of children and then you go on to the Mari as well and start hunging up and making friends because the media think it's politically correct with someone facing some very very serious charges programming reprogramming and faing that send the boys down and give them a [ __ ] good hide uh no thanks we