Disunity is death
OPINION: Staying with politics, with less than nine months to go before the general elections, there’s confusion in the Labour Party when it comes to working with the divided Maori Party.
OPINION: One of the strongest arguments for Act’s Treaty Principles Bill is probably its opponents’ total inability to raise a calm, cogent retort to it, other than intimidation and shouting the other side into silence.
When the Bill had its first reading in the House, the level of debate the Maori Party members were capable of rising to was a loud, intimidating haka, designed to derail voting on the Bill and disrupt the legitimate parliamentary process.
Act’s David Seymour noted, “I heard name calling, I heard hysteria, I saw a haka. I didn’t hear any argument”.
Shane Jones added, if Maori Party MPs won’t respect the rules of the House, they shouldn’t come to Parliament.
Your old mate reckons the attendance roll suggests they usually don’t!
Great weather, a large turnout and positive feedback.
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Former Federated Farmers president Katie Milne is National’s candidate for the West Coast- Tasman seat in this year’s general election.
The medicinal cannabis sector has received a boost with the launch of a new grower body and an extraction facility in north Waikato.
Dougal Morrison has been elected as the new President of the New Zealand Farm Forestry Association (NZFFA).

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