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Andrew Dickens: It's been a remarkable week for Māori · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: It's been a remarkable week in the Malori world. So
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  Speaker 1: I thought i'd give a few of my own opinions.
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  Speaker 1: And seeing as I am a sixty year old white guy,
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  Speaker 1: so I'm going to consider my comments inherently racist and
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  Speaker 1: no matter what I say, but I am allowed my opinion,
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  Speaker 1: just as you're allowed Yours opinions are like bums. We
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  Speaker 1: all have one, so I fight it. So firstly, from
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  Speaker 1: to al Maori, the coming out of the Maori Queen
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  Speaker 1: this week. One thing is for sure, Malory do this
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  Speaker 1: customary and ceremonial stuff. Well, the attendees are seeing history.
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  Speaker 1: A young queen is about to take leadership. It's pretty amazing.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm always amazed at this one year's silence thing,
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  Speaker 1: which happens after the death of your predecessor. Sure, okay,
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  Speaker 1: I get it to you're paying respects, you're getting the
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  Speaker 1: lay of the land, you're forming your ideas for your
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  Speaker 1: bigin you're paying respect to two the guy who came
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  Speaker 1: before you. But come on, a year seems to me
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  Speaker 1: that the year's silence gives the kirk courtiers more power
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  Speaker 1: over the affairs of the Maori state. And when the
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  Speaker 1: cats are away, the mice will play, but that's just
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  Speaker 1: my opinion. Now to the Tamakimikodo election. I couldn't believe
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  Speaker 1: how many voters got the city council elections and the
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  Speaker 1: by election confused. One person on Telly wondered if Orni
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  Speaker 1: Kuiper was running for mayor, and you wonder, then why
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  Speaker 1: we get such strange governments and councils Because people are
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  Speaker 1: not involved, they're not into it, and the candidates ran
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  Speaker 1: chaotic campaigns or any Kuiper had a shocker. She claimed
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  Speaker 1: her party, who have not been in government since twenty seventeen,
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  Speaker 1: had repealed laws. No, they did not, even when they
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  Speaker 1: were back as a support partner back in twenty seventeen.
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  Speaker 1: They were a support partner and not able to repeal laws,
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  Speaker 1: So what was that about. Then she had to grab
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  Speaker 1: her phone to check policy while Jack Tame looked on quizzically.
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  Speaker 1: Then she said her Labor opponent should be the Prime
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  Speaker 1: Minister of New Zealand, which I mean, how did Ravli
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  Speaker 1: and Debbie feel about that? She's backing the guy from
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  Speaker 1: the other side. I understand Orini's appeal. She's young and
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  Speaker 1: she's smart. She was a respected journalist and she's got
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  Speaker 1: the Maori party sartorial style, fine alternative statement clothes. You
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  Speaker 1: know that this party always looks like they've been styled
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  Speaker 1: by Zambezi. But it's not what you look like or
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  Speaker 1: what you're seeing, it's what you say. And she seems
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  Speaker 1: underdone and will get better with more time. It's too
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  Speaker 1: soon for her than this. Penny Henale a product of
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  Speaker 1: Maldi's hierarchical society, where a lot of weight is given
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  Speaker 1: to your family, your fucka pappa and your journey. And
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  Speaker 1: he's always been mentioned as a future prime minister. It
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  Speaker 1: seems like it's owed and not to be earned. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, if he loses this one, it's over as
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  Speaker 1: a prime minister, Penny, because you can't be prime minister
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  Speaker 1: if you can't win your seat twice. And he also
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  Speaker 1: had a shock of going against the gang patch law
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  Speaker 1: and he had to be corrected by Chippy. Also, I
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  Speaker 1: didn't need to see him working out with David Littelly
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  Speaker 1: the butterbean. You know, I want to know what he thinks,
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  Speaker 1: not how he sweats. So you know, I don't think
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  Speaker 1: I could vote for either of the candidates, but I can't.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not allowed to. And you know what, though, that
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  Speaker 1: seems to be how the electric feels with indications of
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  Speaker 1: a terrible turnout this week, and that really breaks my heart.
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  Speaker 1: That is a bad thing to Mari and the Toommackimikodo
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  Speaker 1: by election. If you respect the treaty, if you have
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  Speaker 1: been chosen to be on a Maori roll, then you
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  Speaker 1: owe your people to use that privilege of the vote.
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  Speaker 1: Or could I call it a rite? For more from
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