Tama Potaka: The Minister responsible for Māori interest

[@stand_alone_complex5620]

I'm interested to see how he performs as Conservation minister. How much will he speak up if S Jones opens up conservation land to mining interests?

[@stand_alone_complex5620]

Also, great interview Moana.

[@everardwhangapirita]

This is the most concerning issue I have behind the protection of Te Tiriti. We can’t turn back environmental damage and destruction of that activity on the Whanau.

[@Tupunaforever]

Mr Potaka was very professional and restrained, particularly when Moana asked him if he's "mongrel enough", the look on his face said it all, and she kept repeating it, I honestly thought she said "Mongol". @rkara2 in the comments below has an intelligent response.

[@food4thort]

Please stop conflating the Treaty (Maori version) with the spurious and invented 'Treaty Principles'. The ToW stands by itself and says what it says. It doesn't need 'principles' to give it validity.

[@BigSnapper]

True that. The Treaty Principals provide governments with a mechanism to deviate from honoring the treaty according to legal standards, rather than adhering to it as a lawyer would interpret.

[@eugenerewi9076]

@@BigSnapper wrong clown

[@eugenerewi9076]

@user-oo4zo8yy5u your interpretation is garbage. Your speaking from your arss

[@NZ-ms3vc]

Ae there are no principles in the treaty! Governments need to honour ToW

[@YourProfessor1974]

Is that an expert opinion or is that just your opinion?

[@franklove9117]

Great interview Tama and Moana but once again you have not face what are the true problem with people not going to school or work taking no responsibility blaming others we need to look at ourselves we talk about family but we cannot look after each other this is a Maori problem not the government

[@avogue7831]

The government is responsible for and to its population, we find a safeguard in our constitutional arrangements including Article 3 of Te Tiriti o Waitangi, this is not replaced by iwi, Hapū, or even whānau for example, we don't say superannuitants/Vetrans are no longer productive so their families are responsible for them!.

[@YourProfessor1974]

Under that line of thought, ‘it’s a Māori problem and not a govt problem’. Then should the solution be a Māori solution..? Because there are people who are trying to do that, but whenever they do there’s a push back from society that say it’s giving Māori special treatment… instead of just letting us get on with addressing these ‘Māori problems’. By Māori for Māori

[@JG-us9lu]

​@@YourProfessor1974How many real Moaris are there. 0

[@YourProfessor1974]

@@JG-us9lu according to who…

[@JG-us9lu]

@@YourProfessor1974Obviously not you. How many are there?

[@aaronmoore9417]

Another fantastic interview. While I don’t support his coalition in the slightest, I thought Tama came across as sincere. I do fear though that in the near future he will get stuck between towing the party line and listening to the competing views of his wider whanau. As a fellow Māori I genuinely wish him luck.

[@patricknaera]

For me, it's the damage he is apart of now as he supports the party line that will take years to repair in the future.

[@aaronmoore9417]

@@patricknaera you’re not wrong Patrick.

[@iamrpak]

@@patricknaerahe didn’t join up to work with ACT and NZ First though hopefully that’ll change his tune when they go deeper in to cuts to Māori.

[@rodneynikora358]

Looking forward to the future, time will tell, kia kaha tama, kia kaha kia koe,❤

[@ChurDabro-xh2zu]

Tama has done more for Maori in one year than te pati maori has since ever been in paliment ! What have te pati maori done for us Maori?

[@garrytito2068]

Thank you Tama for realising being in the tent is far more constructive than throwing stones and barking from outside.

[@anjoune615]

The maori Party was 'in the tent' during Key's administration - and by the end of that time (- at the 2017 election) maori trashed the maori Party, and moved wholesale back to Labour).

[@johnrualmond2176]

Tama wants to be in their ‘tent’, where those who think they are superior to Us hold their own echo chamber; however, We the people, not persons, are the supreme power in this land and can have Our own tent [Cf. New Zealand Birth Certificate, BDM107, WARNING and Caution; Treaty of Waitangi Act 1975, s.2; Privacy Act 2020, principle 7, 13; Imperial Law Applications Act 1988, Schedule 1; Senior Courts Act 2016; Reciprocal Enforcement of Judgments Act 1934];

[@vinniebarbarino-1]

Good interview Tama, i have a lot of respect and faith for you to get things done, there's no rush one thing at a time, thanks

[@yeahdefinitely6607]

16:30 Potaka talks about opportunities for Iwi participation etc. The systems and mechanisms established under the last Labour government were not Labour initiatives. They were Māori-driven initiatives over the past two + decades because successive government policies have failed. They were co-participation and partnership arrangements. This government has completely undermined those efforts and resources and set us right back. We need long term, bipartisan support, not reviews every election that stunt progress.

[@arnedomi]

Good interview!

[@geoffneal9146]

"Bureaucratic molasses" is a great term to describe the Labourious Party 2017-23!

[@stopcogovernance]

The big 'missing' from this interview is what Potaka believes about the Treaty e.g. did Maori cede sovereignty or not? Is the Littlewood draft the final English draft of the Treaty or not? If not, why not? What's his definition of kawanatanga? tino rangatiratanga? Taonga? Why is the waitangi tribunal not using the Maori version of the Treaty as it's authority? An so on. Big question not asked and therefore not answered.

[@adriandocherty778]

I don’t understand why the words “CEDE SOVEREIGNTY” would even be used instead of “GIVE UP EVERYTHING FOR SOME LADY KING TO RULE OVER THESE SAVAGES/ CANNIBALS!! World history tells of broken treaties, lies deceit, spreading small pox n other diseases, slave trade of indigenous peoples of colour and non??🤷🏽🤷🏽 A half damaged treaty that was where? And reappeared when? Saying?? CEDED SOVEREIGNTY?? 🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤣😂 Luv to see the names and family tree of this history!!🤣😂 U would think the British monarchy would have both copies in full??😝😛

[@YourProfessor1974]

The reason interviewers don’t ask these questions is because they’ve been answered time and time again. It’s not even a debate. Even David Seymour, as stupid as he is, knows the answered to this

[@michaeljohns6105]

Tama. Pat yourself on the back. I so enjoy listening to reason... Will Moana think this is a Holocauast , Genicide , ... Debbs will

[@iamrpak]

You’re the only one bringing it up.

[@gardener278]

A man with true whakapono, unlike other representation in Te Pati Māori.

[@badchefi]

Basically a servant you like right? Sad how you confuse your narrative with truth.

[@geecee1288]

If only a lot more Māori could see this man as an inspiration rather than a threat, imagine what they could be as a culture

[@Steven38790]

Wrong foot i suppose you don't hear what he is saying listen word play brush off answers devaluation

[@adriandocherty778]

Could you be a bit more spasific there please bro?? The inspiration and what THEY COULD BE??

[@Steven38790]

@adriandocherty778 bro just got to listen trying to remove Maori trusts due to equality no trusts no owners free land goes back to fighting like the musket wars

[@niwaakuhata7957]

Tama is an inspiration to no one but himself. In fact he is playing puppet to the masters, as those tipuna he mentioned in the photos did in their time. Sad but sooo true.

[@ruthlichter6282]

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[@ngairegallagher1710]

Excellent interview

[@mra4955]

interviewer: 'im a real maori and I'm gonna test you and see if you're a real Maori or a plastic one' yawn.

[@jesswhaanga8643]

So what's a real pakeha? yawn

[@mra4955]

@@jesswhaanga8643 now u get it

[@shanegibson3581]

We know who the Mongrel is..

[@georgiegirlization]

Yep new housing opened in Hamilton west are glorified slums. High density housing. No place for children to play we are living on top of one another, upset the elderly in the nearby retirement village. Not enough housing since 300 kainga ora are getting booted.

[@barrygeary9362]

MAORI IN EMERGENCE HOUSING WHY Maori don't use there settlement money to build houses for there people instead wanting others to do it

[@AilsaPehi]

When will iwi participation kick in? The next campaign muster? Nothing is locked in. Maori incentives in health despite positive results have been stripped, and he's talking about investments and projects? I don't believe anything this coalition government says. I have no trust, confidence or loyalty. It's about their ideology.

[@anjoune615]

Absolutely!

[@ohnean1]

Tautoko !

[@Duckz558]

another show?if legit hardly spike korero?sorry bro wrong crowd makes me think independences?

[@StGammon77]

Better than witchcraft and racism

[@tdwilliam27]

Tama just have big ideas. No solutions!

[@JasonPryde-xi1mu]

Be nice to see you your channel reports on all NZ people not just one! Be bias to all New Zealanders and then we have our Aotearoa NZ, no division ❤️

[@nzed16323]

Great interview. Yes Trump did start the awareness , could be said that Winston has followed suit.

[@eugenerewi9076]

Clown that support Clowns

[@annjohnson9131]

Puppet for the NATS ….token Maori …Maori by birth pakeha by design ….!!!

[@sarahhohaia9241]

Thank you Moana for putting forward REAL issues that our people are still facing but I especially enjoyed your 'mongrel' approach cos unfortunately this guy is too much like Luxon only BROWN! He's proven to be another seatwarmer with big hopes and wishful thoughts that will be doused very quickly in the position he holds in those corridors of power!😂

[@janetlewis8848]

Handsome man ❤❤

[@taniajonathan1019]

Question what is a mut?

[@AlanHunt-th1fb]

I can't wait for the next election!

[@arohataurerewa3020]

Those subtitles are not conducive to Te Reo Maori

[@PhilCollier-eh1dd]

New Zealanders voted to stop the Maorification of New Zealand , the people have spoken get over it, ps hurry up and get road signs and Govt departments back to English names so we all know where we are going and what dept to go to

[@stand_alone_complex5620]

Oh no... is learning new words to hard for your widdle brain?

[@eugenerewi9076]

Red neck

[@YourProfessor1974]

That’s a good point. People like you are extremely confused by road signs I.e 1 word in Māori. Despite this, Seymour wants you to have a vote on what you think the treaty says… but how could you vote on that when you can’t even read a road sign?

[@kerrdolive]

What's wrong with bilingual signage? That kills 2 birds with 1 stone - everybody understands what it says, and the translation is right there to allow people to learn the new word or phrase. Respect given to both languages.

[@Marzipan_Rocks]

Mainstream media has moved to American format, more about opinion of the person giving the information rather than decent journalism. I do find a lot of the news depressing. So I seek out specific shows, Q&A, BHN and shows like yours on KZbin. I don’t mistrust media but think they are serving their sponsors more than the NZ public. If you look at the news 20-30 years ago to now it’s day and night with the way it is delivered. I stopped watching breakfast news probably 10 years ago because if the drivel it became. I have Stuff notifications on my phone so if somethings important I will hear about it. I do want to stay informed. I miss John Campbell having his own show, being able to go in depth into things and really pressing politicians when they give non answers.

[@lprice2991]

Tama Potaka seems to havs a proud background in "walking the walk" for Maaori as Maaori - but how can someone who says he truly supports Maaori be politically aligned with National?

[@russellriley7820]

I didn’t realise that Māori weren’t allowed to support a right of centre government… out of curiosity, if I go to the left and keep going further left does that make me even more Maori? Thanks for re-educating me (Te Atiawa, Ngati Tama(right of centre)).

[@jr8899]

How have the last 6 years been form Maori,cost of living, inflation,lack of housing, immigration,seems the last left government did nothing for Maori,only elites which have done very well out of it

[@eugenerewi9076]

Blinking tells us lies lies lies. Big pay out a boy

[@russellriley7820]

What a load of rubbish. Blinking is a natural body reaction to both keep the eyeball clean but also to lubricate the eyeball to move within the lids. If we used your premise then how can you trust either? My mother (Ngati Tama, Te Atiawa) used to say never trust a man(person) with a moustache… I used to ask her how she got on with Movember.

[@Steven38790]

@@russellriley7820 must be young blinking continuously is another form of breaking under pressure brush off answers that are not answers deflection 101 body language

[@eugenerewi9076]

@russellriley7820 body language posture blinking. He's a Puppet . This shameful government is falling apart

[@RichardNeale-d4s]

Looks and talks like a tuna !

[@taniajonathan1019]

both

[@andrewbrownlie2764]

Great. Don't have any issues with Maori culture at all Do have a problem with this sort of driven separatism. What is the aim and desired outcome here. Just to show how Important this is to Kiwis in 2 weeks there have only been 99 comments. Maybe we're all over this.

[@petertheobald9624]

Kia ora Moana - I think you are one of the better Journalists I have seen for a long time. I find you respectful but not afraid to dig and ask challenging questions. I look forward to more interviews where you hold our ministers to account.

[@taniajonathan1019]

argument on both sides

[@taniajonathan1019]

Mongrel you should be able to answer that right?

[@LouisCoster]

Potaka kupapa

[@RichardNeale-d4s]

Snake with forked tongue

[@RoseKatipa-e3b]

Talking now not that time o Turiana time National is in riddles. Founders of National is democratic against Maori

[@xoxo98808]

dont be fooled. this guy is a kupapa. he is a member of a party that is attacking maori interests.

[@EvelynMcNamara-k1r]

I think he's pretty gutless ge will do as he's told

[@boonmcilroy119]

He's got no balls this dude

[@stephenlennon7369]

Pakeha use to call maori "the New Zealanders"

[@jaydoole3169]

And Maori used to eat each other. Things change. Our children are their children.

[@eugenerewi9076]

Aotearoa

[@aaronmorgan8819]

"bla fuck'n blaah"...

[@BigSnapper]

That's not very constructive. Your comment is offensive to the Rangatira in your profile picture.

[@aaronmorgan8819]

oh, apologies ! I meant "baa, baah, ba ahah"...

[@BigSnapper]

@@aaronmorgan8819 you should change your profile pic to an amoeba

[@MsDontbelieveit]

Nga mihi Moana

[@johnrualmond2176]

Thanks Te Ao with Moana for exposing another kupapa, who espouses colonial rhetoric and the presumed authority of the subordinate statutory system; mostly what Tama Potaka said was based on being thoroughly indoctrinated and educated in a western regime, like a poaka caught with his head in the hinaki;

[@rkara2]

Good god moana you have been walking on this earth long enough to realise that the way Moari govern is not the same as the way pakeha govern. If you want the current governance pattern to change then you have to start with Maori governance and not expect somebody who is serving the pakeha governance to do it for you. Moari govern at the hapu level not at the iwi level like the pakeha. If you want Maori to be able to make their own politics then a hapu level type governance system has to be invented.

[@stephenlennon7369]

Got any suggestions?

[@Tupunaforever]

Well said

[@dgm2593]

All Maori tribes need to form there own tribal government. You have a Maori government and crown government. Maori and crown government to form a joint venture in sharing resources. Maori to govern Maori and crown to govern pakeha.

[@eugenerewi9076]

Maori will do better job this is our country. Wake up nody

[@bighoose]

Sell out hua Tama

[@DanielleA2023]

The only interest he has are the interests of The Atlas Network

[@marianaandrews6274]

He's had the PR prep to maximum slickness but he can't hide the fact that he represents a government intent on attacking and undermining Māori at every turn...he's trotted out to do the Māori thing for the "Mussa" but for all his reo, experience and big portfolios, they don't pay any damn mind to him...he's way down the ladder of actual power and we all know it!

[@BigSnapper]

He's a Lawyer. What are your skill sets?

[@ohnean1]

@@BigSnapper Lawyer or not, he gave me the impression he wanted to be this govs ... "good Māori"

[@marianaandrews6274]

​@user-oo4zo8yy5u, so what if he's a lawyer!!

[@BigSnapper]

@@marianaandrews6274 He's a competent person unlike the unqualified, white privilege Pakeha in parliament.

[@BigSnapper]

@@ohnean1 That's your prejudiced brain ruining your ability to think critically.

[@Duckz558]

part of there matrix of depression vulnerable position😮 control grabs

[@taniajonathan1019]

try being a mut

[@poerava]

This wicked government reversed legislation that has dug the graves for 4000-6000 New Zealander’s. Mostly Māori. How does this clown sleep at night? Must be a good pay packet.

[@bobsemple07]

And where did you get this made up fact from

[@poerava]

@@bobsemple07 I tried posting links, yet it doesn’t let me do that, so I’ve had to explain where I got the 80% from. Search: Awareness, Support, and Perceived Impacts of New Zealand’s Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Legislation Among Adults Who Smoke or Formerly Smoked Findings from the Oct-Dec 2022 EASE/ITC New Zealand Survey • 74% regret starting to smoke • 84% would like to stop smoking • 69% are planning to stop, 31% in the next 6 months • 81% have tried to stop smoking, 41% in the last year • But 87% feel somewhat or very addicted to smoking Search: Young New Zealanders want a tobacco-free future - new research 6 December 2023 Authors: Jude Ball Janet Hole Andrew Waa Janine Nip James Stanley Richard Edwards Findings: 78% of young people support major reductions in tobacco retail outlet numbers, 68% support a law requiring manufacturers to take the nicotine out of smoked tobacco products, 79% in support of the smoke free generation policy and 80% supported the smoking ban. --------- Search: Support for New Zealand's Smokefree 2025 goal and key measures to achieve it: findings from the ITC New Zealand Survey Richard Edwards, Ellie Johnson, James Stanley, Andrew Waa, Janine Ouimet, Geoffrey T. Fong First published: 28 June 2021 69-92% Support the ban

[@poerava]

@@bobsemple07 They keep deleting my comment I’ll keep trying Search: Support for NZ’s smoke free 2025 goal and key measures to achieve it. Findings from the ITC NZ survey Published 28 June 2021 69-92% support the ban. The middle point between 69 and 92, is 80.5. Do I rounded it down for you to 80% Let me know if you have trouble searching for this study. (It wasn’t made up)

[@user-ym5dm9xd5w]

You can see the division between these two Maori. One of these two Kiwis has been brainwashed by the European. The other man is a proud sounding Maori. If Maori can not unite Aotearoa is lost.

[@HaturiniPaoraAka-nk1ue]

One sounds like a pakeha and the other is an intelligent woman.

[@riawaikerepuru2239]

Omg hexreally is a wet blanket!!!! Bought and paid for!!!

[@esamartin1052]

Beautiful wahine toa ❤ MOANAI love you thank you AMAZING 👏

[@LouisCoster]

Lyin' luxon n his tobacco goons

[@stevenmataira4498]

He talks for the white man,whanau ora a joke

[@retimixshotcrete5870]

Kia Ora Tama

[@grant6895]

If he is interested in inclusiveness then dump Waitangi Tribunal and Maori wards would be a good start, These have no place in a modern society. Thd Treaty is of historical significance only. I say DUMP THE TREATY to let this country move forward.

[@1lionconqueror]

this guy should be ashamed of himself. shame on you Tama pohara

[@shakirar11]

You can smell what the rock is cooking, especiallly when he says: *Well what I would say to you is* that's exactly what Luxon says a thousand times in an interview. WIWSTYI. he's a politician people, he works for the government and he gets paid by the tax payer, who do you think would win overall. for him to keep getting his pay pkt, he has to be on board with his party and the PM. No matter how you think his words please you, behind closed doors is way more different for what they really mean..

[@shanebold7851]

Flash backs. WE ARE INDIGENOUS MAORI ❤🤍🖤 Accountability is yours to maintain nationalist. YOUR Actions speaking LOUDER than your Words National Party 📜 records show📜 21% more sending 4 a lot less. STOP THE CUTS.

[@jesswhaanga8643]

She should ask him about the ridiculous law that has ripped off the whanau inTokumaru Bay Tairawhiti region .The gisborne city council controls perpetual lease which is blatant theft of maori owners land!!

[@dgm2593]

What document is the foundation of our country? The Maori version or the pakeha version? 540 chiefs signed the Maori version and only 40 chiefs signed the english version of the treaty. The Maori version did not cede sovereignty!!!!

[@StGammon77]

Did so, it's a mirror of the English

[@dgm2593]

@@StGammon77 Wrong! The 540 chiefs that signed the Maori version did not cede sovereignty. Maori language and English language are not the same language. Words have different meanings. Try and at least use your imagination please. Thankyou

[@Go_Home_British_Raj]

Te kanohi kitea ...

[@dgm2593]

If Rangatira chiefs didnt cede sovereignty? Then why are we still under there spell of control and power. The power and control needs to come back to us!!!

[@StGammon77]

Then scrap the Treaty and fight us then

[@dgm2593]

@@StGammon77 bring it on boi!!!!