Paakiwaha 29/09/08

Paakiwaha 29/09/08 - On Radio Waatea in association with New Zealand On Air - Tuesday at 10:00am to Midday. Current Affairs from a Māori perspective with
Willie Jackson.

Greetings / Programme rundown.

RON MARK: NZ First list MP, talks with Willie about the Seat he is contesting in the upcoming elections, that being the Rimutaka Seat, the most Northern Wellington Seat. Ron then gives a tribute to Brian Donnelly QSO, who was in the top 5 on the NZ First, Party List and who died tragically at the age of 59 while High Commissioner to the Cook Islands.

TARIANA TURIA: Māori Party MP Co-Leader. Did the Māori Party betray Winston Peters?
Willie opens with a recorded sound bite of Tariana talking about Winston Peters.
TE URUROA FLAVELL: Māori Party MP - Did the Māori Party betray Winston Peters? Te Ururoa explains on how he, as a member of the Parliamentary Priviledges Committee, and being given the available information and evidence, understood the process and criteria to arrive at the judgement he did, which was detrimental to Winston Peters.
Willie asks whether Te Ururoa "forfeited his Maoriness for the process".
Willie states that "the Māori Party base their principles on Maoriness and Māori identity and Māori priority and have'nt let 'Process' guide you" until now.
Te Ururoa also talks about the Te Arawa Settlement Claims with the Labour Government.

WINSTON PETERS & WILLIE JACKSON: Prerecorded interview highlights from Willie Jackson's "Newsmakers" radio programme.
Winston say's he has been betrayed and still maintains he did not know about the money Owen Glenn said he gave to the NZ First Party.

GEORGINA TE HEUHEU: Talks with Willie about the National Party's Māori Policy where the National Party want to get rid of the Māori Seats.

ROGER KERR & ADAM GIFFORD: A prerecorded interview with Roger Kerr, the former Head of the Business Round Table who Commissioned Fredric Sautet to write a Paper which was called called "Once were Iwi", a Brief Institutional Analysis of Māori Tribal Organisations Through Time.
This Paper sets out to show that "While the traditional Iwi structure of the eighteenth century was indispensable to Māori societies at the time, the same institutional structure is likely to be redundant in the twenty-first century".

CHRIS TROTTER: A Left-Wing Political perspective for the upcoming Elections with current statistics of the Parties.

DUNCAN GARNER: Weekly wrap-up of Politics. A rundown from Duncan with the current statistics, National looks like a winner.

KEN LABAN: Looks back on the week of Sports. The Warriors current performance.

Wrap / Music / Close