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Sophie Trigger: Senior Political Reporter on the preparations ahead of Waitangi Day · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Why Tungy commemorations have started. Remember it's a week long thing,
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  Speaker 1: it's not just one day. They've already started that doing it. Politicians, ee,
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  Speaker 1: leaders and fan No that there already. They've been arriving
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  Speaker 1: ahead of the big day on Thursday tomorrow. News talks
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  Speaker 1: here b political reporter Sophie Trigger has made the trip
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  Speaker 1: up north and joins me.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Hello Sophie, Good morning, Andrew. How are you good?
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  Speaker 1: First time or what second time?
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  Speaker 2: Actually, Andrew, I was I was up here last year
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  Speaker 2: as well.
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  Speaker 1: I was watching the telly last night. I have to
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  Speaker 1: say the arrival of the Maori queen was quite some pageant.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, hundreds turned out to watch Andrew and the poor
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  Speaker 2: fority yesterday welcomed the king to king Ey Tongue, including
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  Speaker 2: the new monarch naw Way Hono. It's a Paul. It
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  Speaker 2: was her first white tonguey as the Marti Queen after
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  Speaker 2: the passing of her father, King tu Hatia last year.
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  Speaker 2: And also in the contingent was to Pati Marti, which
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  Speaker 2: arrived as part of the king E Tongue porphy this
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  Speaker 2: year as it did last year, really consolidating that public
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  Speaker 2: relationship between to Patimari and the King Etangue ahead of
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  Speaker 2: the rest of the politicians arriving on the treaty grounds
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  Speaker 2: later this morning. Yesterday we also had a number of
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  Speaker 2: other groups welcomed in a separate porpity in the morning,
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  Speaker 2: which included the White Toungui Tribunal, local Government New Zealand,
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  Speaker 2: the judiciary, and the Diplomatic Corps, the head of which
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  Speaker 2: is Mexican Ambassador Alfred or Porrez Bravo, who you may
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  Speaker 2: have seen in the news a bit over the past week.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, he met with Winston Peters. They had lunch. Now
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure they got on because you can't have lunch
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  Speaker 1: with Winston Peters to not have a good time.
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  Speaker 2: Well, a meeting took place yesterday, that's correct, between Winston
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  Speaker 2: Peters and the Mexican Ambassador. So this follows, of course,
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  Speaker 2: comments made in the House last week by Peter's own colleague,
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  Speaker 2: Minister Shane Jones, who called out send the Mexicans home,
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  Speaker 2: directed towards Green MP's and it was described as xenophobic
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  Speaker 2: and racist by the Green Party. So after this comment,
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  Speaker 2: the Mexican embassy confirmed it was following up on the
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  Speaker 2: matter through diplomatic channels. Now, Alfredo pres Bravo, as the
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  Speaker 2: dean of the Diplomatic Corps, was part of this contingent.
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  Speaker 2: Welcomed onto the grounds yesterday, and we spoke to the
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  Speaker 2: ambassador after the porphity and he confirmed he was meeting
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  Speaker 2: with Peter soon, but wouldn't really comment further on the
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  Speaker 2: matter at all. He didn't say whether he would raise
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  Speaker 2: the issue with Peters, but said that the interaction would
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  Speaker 2: be friendly. So we don't yet know what exactly took
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  Speaker 2: place in the meeting, but as you say, Peters has
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  Speaker 2: shared a picture of the two of them yesterday, so
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  Speaker 2: we'll have to wait to speak to him to find
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  Speaker 2: out sort of what happened, if there were apologies offered,
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  Speaker 2: if there was any sort of resolution to that.
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  Speaker 1: So I called this day white tonguey Eve as the
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  Speaker 1: day before. What's happening today?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so this morning we will have all parties, that's
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  Speaker 2: except for Tapatimari, which arrived yesterday welcomed onto the treaty grounds.
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  Speaker 2: Last year we had a separate porphity for government and opposition,
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  Speaker 2: but today they will all be arriving side by side.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, a notable absence is the Prime Minister Chris Luxon.
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  Speaker 2: He will be in the South Island ahead of spending
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  Speaker 2: White Tangy in Akaroa, but will no doubt hear from
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  Speaker 2: him at some point today as well. And considering the
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  Speaker 2: Treaty Principles Bill is such a live issue oral submissions
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  Speaker 2: beginning at Select Committee last week, it is expected to
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  Speaker 2: result in some heated cottit or tomorrow in today sorry
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  Speaker 2: in the speeches from both sides. It's also brought large
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  Speaker 2: numbers of people to White Tangi again this year. White
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  Speaker 2: Tangi leader's estimate it could be the same size or
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  Speaker 2: even bigger than last year. And I've spoken to stoken
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  Speaker 2: some people who were attending White Tangi for the first
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  Speaker 2: time for the reason of protecting Tetiditi. So today is
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  Speaker 2: going to bring actually to David Seymour face to face
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  Speaker 2: with some of these critics for the first time this year,
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  Speaker 2: considering he wasn't at the last and there are a
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  Speaker 2: couple of weeks ago another forum in which the government
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  Speaker 2: can hear from Marti and Ewee leaders on these issues.
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  Speaker 2: We are also expecting the arrival of a toy to
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  Speaker 2: Tetidity protest on the Treaty grounds, so thousands are expected
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  Speaker 2: to be part of that and that's the group behind
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  Speaker 2: last year's massive hikoi to Parliament in November.
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  Speaker 1: Very good, Sophie. Enjoy the day and I thank you
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