If James Meager's maiden speech was sublime, this one is ridiculous

[@lydiascl]

She felt like she was ram raided because a man sought her out to compliment her? The victim mentality is cranked up to 11 on this one... She's peeing on her own leg and telling others it's raining.. 🤔 Also the point about her being taken from the marae garden to the Parliament.. Is she trying to say the she has zero experience in the real world?

[@jdrei5080]

Bingo!

[@red2775]

She's only 21 she knows very little about anything... I think she's great for applying herself and in future maybe come prime minister.... But until she gets that very important experience I suppose theatrics is the best she can offer...

[@serenasmith26]

She would be doing what she's told hence all the clapping and smiling around her.@@red2775

[@fatbastard70]

So... isn't she guilty of lying in Parliament? That's a great start to her career.

[@NoaN06]

@@red2775 How do you know she knows nothing? Are you her?

[@andreatodd3095]

Parliament is about running a country, not a therapy session for members who haven't got their s...t together....they are supposed to be advocating for NZer's not stroking their ego's

[@ewanmee9877]

Exactly.

[@daddybob6096]

@andreatodd3095 Couldn't have said it better myself Andrea. 👍 Bob.

[@v1rotait23]

This is what happens when you allow uncontrolled emotional outbursts to run rampant in the house, disguised as concern for constituents!

[@andreatodd3095]

@@daddybob6096 yes Bob, we should rightfully expect better from the House, most of them have stated that it's a privilege to be there and to be elected. So I'm not seeing that privilege manifested by some MP's actions.

[@IanG2120]

Tell that to Winston!

[@Sharpy7562]

It’s not a political Democratic Party it’s a movement of activists using parliament as platform

[@rogermartin8435]

Wise observation. The next few years are gping to be very divisive. As the Chinese curse says "May you live in interesting times".And so we shall.

[@steve-xn8ot]

correct.. They openly represent one ethnic group of New Zealanders.. Other Kiwi ethnic groups would never play the race victim card, nor put their genetic ethnicity above others, simply because the majority of Kiwi's are morally well above that level...

[@standbytogo123]

Yes, your supposed to be in Parliament to represent all of the people not just your own race. if that is going to be the case maybe a reduction in salary to represent the reduction in work would be justified. @@steve-xn8ot

[@WhiteHatzz]

Why can't they represent what they want. If you don't like it then fuck off.

[@Amy_Housewife8809]

Good point karen. And getting well paid for it too, which I suspect is the main incentive.

[@acegikmoii]

Who wants to be lead back 150 years to tribalism?

[@AmonAnon-vw3hr]

The ones who think they'll be in charge lol.

[@Peter_Pepper_Love]

...as the (((controllers))) rub hands👏

[@v1rotait23]

For them, it's never changed. It's always been squabbling over something despite the billions of dollars given away...

[@momogi8519]

For thousand of years the NZ native-indigenous people came across the ocean, yes, BUT all the islands were theirs. Early Māori settlement happened in the North Island between AD 1250 and AD 1275. They navigate and travel the oceans in that region it was ALL THEIRS. White thieves came when? About 200 yrs ago, in the 18th Century. White people are NOT indigenous - just thieves.

[@ewanmee9877]

I thought parliament was for making speeches about how to benefit all people going forward. Not sniveling about injustices, real or imagined, from times past, personal mental health issues, current personal problems and "all that". Certainly not for unintelligible ramblings, dance performances, disruption of civilised procedures and fancy dress. $160k per year of tax payers money (each) plus allowances, subsidized dindins for deluded weather watchers and others is a very pricey kindergarten.

[@secondchance6603]

It's called being, 'oppressed' apparently.

[@annegribben444]

Wow and you don't recognize others FANCY DRESS CODES....AS USED AS OK... WOW ..UOUR BRAIN IS MAYBE ONLY WORKING ON "ONE SIDE " ONESIDED. ....I AM PAKEHA BUT AND I WILL ALWAYS FULLY RESPECT OTHERS SELF EXPRESSION AS THEIR RIGHTS AS MY WONDERFUL SITUATION RMTO BE APART OF IT ...THE INDIGENOUS ARE OUR TREASURES AND HAVE EQUAL RIGHTS UNDER OUR NZ SUN ...NONE OF US IS PERFECT ...AND WE NEED EACH OTHER TO IN BEING GROWNUPS TO UNDERSTAND THIS ....I AM PROUD OF THIS WAHINE ...AT LEAST SHE HAS THE MANA TO STAND ...STAND IN HER IDEAS ON HER OWN TWO FEET AS HER DEMOCRATIC RIGHT . BLESSINGS TO ALL .

[@user-xn7yr6hj5i]

What’s your ethnicity?

[@bigthinker281]

@@user-xn7yr6hj5ithe human race.

[@barryscott6222]

No. Parliament is the House of Representatives. It represents ALL New Zealanders. And as one notable MP once said to me... It represents the idle, indigent, mentally incompetent, dishonest, lazy and stupid, just as faithfully as everyone else.

[@michaelmarama-de4gx]

OH MY GADDDDDDDDDD. As a mari im absolutely ashamed of this Party. How ridiculous and pathetic this is. Im stickin in the white mans world because its just sane and normal.

[@patriceking9583]

Agree - does not truely represent the majority of Maori in fact doing Maori an injustice. She’s an activist with no real life experience apart from being brainwashed probably at some radicalised university to believe a distorted nz history from the pov of other radical , racist activists 🤦🏻‍♀️. Using their platform for this bs is doing zero to help the Maori people. Winston will no doubt set her right with a little touch of reality and a few hard facts 😂

[@ReginaldHarris-gm8fi]

Lol I was brought up knowing the world is a evil place when you say I'm sticking to my white world wow that speaks volumes lol u need help

[@ReginaldHarris-gm8fi]

Lol an your buddie too😂

[@jjacobs260]

There are some beautiful elements of Maori culture which NZ institutions like AirNZ used to do a great job of elevating and highlighting to the world. Today, there’s seemingly a desire to focus on the violent, intimidating and resentful parts of the culture and it’s embarrassing.

[@NoaN06]

​@patriceking9583 typical comment aye. Can't even listen to thr actual substance of her speech. Instead you label her an activist to hide your ignorance.

[@bigthinker281]

More racial activism and obsession with superficial features = more polarisation and a divided society😔

[@jasperhorace7147]

Still, as this clown party of funny hats will never be supported by the centre right, they will have to rely on labour. They will make labour toxic.

[@bigthinker281]

⁠@@jasperhorace7147 yes! And many old labour people will never vote for them again knowing they they will potentially put in this toxic party in coalition me thinks!

[@bigthinker281]

@@jasperhorace7147they have also said no to nzf as well…I don’t think they realise they have no friends…😂

[@momogi8519]

Yes, and who caused the divide? England. Go back to England and all will be well again. Apartheid inherit you.

[@tonofh]

Seriously this is getting to much air time. These idiots are craving publicity and that’s what they’re getting. For them to be carrying on like this in parliament is making a mockery of the place. Tattooed faces and poking tongues out and bulging eyes in parliament in 2023 c’mon get real .

[@poncholarpez6233]

It's actually a good thing, as it's making the rest of the country wake up to the extent cultural Marxism has infected this country

[@PeteThecurious100]

You-are-on-to-it, Brownly will have to grow a backbone and step in soon.

[@drh02]

And refusing to say King Charles in their swearing in!

[@MrAhuapai]

The best thing to happen to the Māori party was for national to align with ACT and NZ first racial rhetoric. The Paati Māori cant believe their luck. It will peter out though as people quickly realise the shallowness of their race baiting is merely there to activate the right wing base..

[@tracyk3606]

Te tiriti o Waitangi…learn it. The legal version, the one where 500 Māori signed. They have every right to be unapologetically themselves according to the law:)

[@danielalexander3406]

Her ancestors navigated the biggest ocean eh? Sounds like the thing that would come from a non-indigenous person who colonised a country.

[@valeriehughes1008]

Out of the mouth's of babes... she has just admitted her people are not indigenous and in fact came in a boat like the rest!

[@tgapete01]

just like everyone who came to this country.

[@Joeseph-t2e]

Fun fact....When Europeans arrived in New Zealand the most prized possession a Maori could have was a blanket....New Zealand in the winter can be pretty darn cold and they were sleeping on flax

[@momogi8519]

Go back to England.

[@momogi8519]

For thousand of years the NZ native-indigenous people came across the ocean, yes, BUT all the islands were theirs. Early Māori settlement happened in the North Island between AD 1250 and AD 1275. They navigate and travel the oceans in that region it was ALL THEIRS. White thieves came when? About 200 yrs ago, in the 18th Century. White people are NOT indigenous - just thieves.

[@ABCBUGGYNZ]

As the Clarke side of her family provided the stability, I'll wait patiently for her to acknowledge her "colonial," side.

[@valeriehughes1008]

You will probably have a long wait with this one!

[@philtozer7660]

Don’t hold your breath

[@v1rotait23]

it's called selective geneaology and acknowledgement. Happens far to often with some people with only a few laps around the sun under their belt and an agenda of division...

[@bigthinker281]

Shhoooo shoooo away! You’re destroying the narrative! 🤣🤣

[@victoriasmith1695]

Pakeha Lens!

[@trevormoore2993]

She can't speak on a Marae. So, Parliament is the place Wahine can speak freely and as of right. Strange place to attack when it has increased your personal rights.

[@tiakitoia631]

How about learn some history and you’ll find that the custom to keep a woman in the back in the kitchen derived from Europeans and their missionary counterparts

[@tiakitoia631]

Hence why we no longer practise that custom among tribes in this day.

[@newmarsvolta]

​@@tiakitoia631I thought lining women up behind men in the wharenui was all to do with tapu/noa being that women are tapu after they've done karanga in the pōwhiri... It seems to be perfectly relevant to the culture and I have no idea why you'd equate it to being "in the kitchen"

[@codie2035]

You're obviously speaking from a place ignorance.

[@tiakitoia631]

@@newmarsvolta that’s not accurate. While women do have their own roles during a pohiri , they are not limited to only that. Each iwi have their own kawa that dictate how the ceremonial process is conducted, but there isn’t any pre-colonial-evidence that suggest women were not allowed to speak on the Taumata/Paepae, and that there wasn’t any type of inequality between the two genders , it was in fact the opposite and there’s more than enough evidence supporting this . There were female Chiefs with the highest honour within Iwi that went to sign for Te Tiriti, but was denied the right to sign by the Colonials, and so many iwi did not sign because of that rule. Also if you look now at which iwi still practise that type of tikanga (women having a less say / being in the kitchen and doing jobs in the background) you’ll find it is the iwi that are still heavily influenced by the church, e.g Ratana Pā or some marae down the east coast where Christ was brought a little later than the north.

[@davidwalker2886]

No one’s ever going to take these clowns seriously.

[@michaelmarama-de4gx]

I couldn't have said that better myself Sir

[@yingle6027]

Unfortunately our media thinks they're geniuses.

[@Dani-wr1to]

Awwww boo hoo 💀💀💀💀 stay mad

[@yingle6027]

@@Dani-wr1to Te Pati Maori don't affect me because they don't represent me, so I'm not mad. I feel sorry for normal Maori who have to have these clowns as their mascots it must be embarrassing.

[@michaelmarama-de4gx]

@@yingle6027 That includes me. I'm the blackest of blackest mari person you will ever find in NZ and the only thing I could ever support Te Pati Mari for is if they produce Toilet Paper with there logo proudly emblazoned on each roll, I'd be buying and stocking up on plenty so that I can take my crap out on them when ever I'm having a shitty day

[@888Sooty]

She admits Maori aren’t indigenous as they came across the ocean

[@momogi8519]

For thousand of years the NZ native-indigenous people came across the ocean, yes, BUT all the islands were theirs. Early Māori settlement happened in the North Island between AD 1250 and AD 1275. They navigate and travel the oceans in that region it was ALL THEIRS. White thieves came when? About 200 yrs ago, in the 18th Century. White people are NOT indigenous - just thieves.

[@skulptor]

No respect for anyone except her supporters. Is this democracy?

[@jasperhorace7147]

Te Pati Māori don’t believe in democracy. Halfwiti has said so.

[@onepup-pr3yl]

She will soon learn that she can do nothing for her ''supporters'' unless she and all her gang realize that being an elected representative in any political system you have to recognize and operate within that system to achieve anything. They will achieve nothing other than further alienating their people and causing racial division, the truth be known that is probably their goal.

[@PeteThecurious100]

@@jasperhorace7147 Halfwiti, funny that.;)

[@steve-xn8ot]

most Maori do believe in democracy,,, but not these soft fools..@@jasperhorace7147

[@jakz0110]

Sounds like the opposition as well

[@DontEatTheAnimals]

? her ancestors navigated the biggest ocean in the world ? ... so, she ADMITS she is an immigrant. Someone ask her what the Moriori tasted like, or is that part of factual history just swept under the marae mat ?

[@Friends22336]

Tasted like your mums arss and no they mori ori had same bloodline as maori

[@Joeseph-t2e]

@@Friends22336 I would say judging by the amount of muscle and fat in the arse it would make quite a nice meal....Dont you clean your kill before cooking it or do you just tuck into the bowels and suck out the shit?

[@momogi8519]

For thousand of years the NZ native-indigenous people came across the ocean, yes, BUT all the islands were theirs. Early Māori settlement happened in the North Island between AD 1250 and AD 1275. They navigate and travel the oceans in that region it was ALL THEIRS. White thieves came when? About 200 yrs ago, in the 18th Century. White people are NOT indigenous - just thieves.

[@richardbuttenshaw3569]

Lol Crazy is as crazy does. She sure aint a full quid.

[@daddybob6096]

LoL.

[@Peter_Pepper_Love]

I wouldn't give her a dollar!

[@ReginaldHarris-gm8fi]

Honk😅 honkey don't think your korero is worth a dollar neither

[@ReginaldHarris-gm8fi]

No korero here is worth a dollar bro

[@lydiascl]

I thought there's no point talking in a language that your audience/listeners can't understand.. 🤔

[@jdrei5080]

That's what I said when Taikiki...said his speak in parliament to Winston Peters. In fact the mere fact that he spoke to our Prime Minister (acting) with such disregard and disrespect is extremely rude. Not to forget how most of NZ is not Maori fluent and did not /can not understand!

[@daedalus7677]

@@jdrei5080 So if The Maori Party have a valid point to make - and we can't understand what that is - why can't they see that to get their point across, they need to speak the majority language of English? To insist that 'we' learn Maori in order to understand the point(s) they are trying to make seems counter productive.

[@gayledenholm987]

O M G! What the hell is this! This is another showman ship, who is a laugh, and they need to be kicked out of Parliament. Just a bunch of racists, no hopers this lot is.

[@FinnDelMundoTravel]

Disgusting. How this rubbish enters out most important building in the country is beyond me. Absolutely revolting and embarrassing moment for New Zealand

[@jac3271]

Exactly, hugely embarrassing!

[@capricris7672]

Freedom of speech. You haters should sit down and think about the racist crap, inequity us Pacific and Maori people put up with.

[@jac3271]

@@capricris7672 ah yes, the victim card is played. Parliament needs adults to show up, not narcissistic children.

[@jasperhorace7147]

T@@capricris7672 Haters❓ Typical leftie defence. Use pejorative terms but do not address the argument. Would you defend freedom of speech for a white supremicist vigorously too? I bet you wouldn’t?

[@waynekilgour393]

@@jac3271 The adults need to grow a pair.

[@judyirving7631]

Tatooed or not they will never outnumber real new zealanders so get over it and get a real job like the rest of us. Fight hate Be Normal !!!

[@ha.tp56]

yeah lets all be low life blue collars instead of fighting for a treaty recognition for the indigenous people of Aotearoa in parliment xx

[@raewynsnook7289]

@judyirving7631you forget, the real New Zealanders are Maori long before your ancestors arrived on these shores.

[@camstratford3633]

Who the hell are all the people singing along? Shouldn't they be kicked out for being noisy and disruptive?

[@jasperhorace7147]

Seems to be a different rule for those who arrived by canoe.

[@terrymcanalen3031]

I was just asking myself that exact question while I was watching this. A fuckin joke or what man? 😮

[@daedalus7677]

Wasn't Simon Cowell in there somewhere? But I think it was a "No"!

[@jimbean7652]

go to sleep and never wake up your family would be happy

[@momogi8519]

Yep! just like racist white to kick native people out of their homes. Apartheid you. By the time the first Europeans arrived, Māori had long settled the land, every corner of which came within the interest and influence of a tribal (iwi) or sub-tribal (hapū) grouping

[@paperclip612]

It's supposed to be a speech, NOT A SINGSONG!

[@normankeoghan5298]

Can remove her from the pay roll, as that was totally worthless. Parliament is not a playground for kids to act tough. Inexperienced and expensive, wast of taxpayers money. Qualified Gardner is what was revealed in her CV.

[@michaelmarama-de4gx]

😂😂😂 yup take the silly women off the payroll

[@AddyAshton]

We have a few virtue signallers here in Australia, people have had a gut full of these folks.

[@jasperhorace7147]

Our virtue signaller in chief ran away as soon as she realised she had been rumbled.

[@leonbonney1236]

thats rich comming from a long line of crooks and murderers

[@francisheperi4180]

Notice how many of these types have hyphenated names... ooh eerr... got the sort of face one would love to slap. Misplaced pride comes before a fall.

[@Joeseph-t2e]

@@leonbonney1236 Most of the people sent to Australia from Britain in the prison ships were simply poor people who couldn't pay their taxes its why Australia has a better tax system today than Britain..

[@leonbonney1236]

tha fuck i care , look how they treat aboriginal people and then wanna comment on maori!...pfft@@Joeseph-t2e

[@Theresaisabiologicalwoman]

I use to love the Maori culture now I'm starting to despise it ...

[@mrsANGRYh]

So many kiwis feel this way.

[@StGammon77]

Chiefs would be rolling in their geaves

[@shadowbanned5164]

These Maori elitists have certainly poisoned the well in New Zealand which is unfortunate because most Maori are nothing like them.

[@NikoHL]

Grow up ya racist. It was a brilliant speech. The Maori are not looking for your endorsement.

[@NikoHL]

​@@mrsANGRYh Just the Racist bigots...

[@jimwulstan8592]

We’ve always had the professional politicians, now we have got the professional Māoris.

[@maljohn1414]

Dont you mean MIXED RACE.

[@geoffstokes]

Professional activists that's all they are and paid a lot of money to misuse their position

[@victoriasmith1695]

Keha response.

[@1970brenz]

Professional victims. And perpetual race-baiting victims.

[@lisac1619]

​@@victoriasmith1695You can't even write two concurrent words in Maori.

[@ronaldneehao9723]

Hopefully she is singing about increasing prison sentences and cutting benefits

[@marilynselwyn5053]

Spoken like a white supremist, I mean NATIONAList o Kkk

[@NoaN06]

What a racist comment to make.

[@NoaN06]

There are more Pakeha on benefits than Māori. Try again

[@Chopstoon]

​@@NoaN06 Statistics?

[@markphillips5368]

What an absolute debacle in the parliament yesterday. She was supposed to be delivering her maiden speech, not taking part in a kapa haka tournament. Made worse by her supporters in the public gallery chiming in as well, increasing the noise level far above what most people would deem acceptable for the parliament.

[@bigthinker281]

And the speaker for some reason couldn’t stop it…unbelievable…

[@kungfutzu3779]

normally if people in the gallery are yelling they get booted out

[@jasperhorace7147]

@@kungfutzu3779 Apparently, only if they are white.

[@JohnSmith-fp8il]

Parliament is a circus and the Maori party are the clowns.

[@fatbastard70]

@@bigthinker281 Don't give it oxygen.

[@dubstepXpower]

Ill bring my bagpipes and start playing in parliament to represent my scottish ancestors 😅

[@nzmarco]

Are you an elected member?

[@valeriehughes1008]

Please do - at least we can tap our foot to them... however you'd probably be asked to leave ... you are not one of the privileged race.

[@pariscooper5458]

Scottish ain't from New Zealand whereas Maori are 🤷‍♂️

[@lancedonald6070]

Have you forgotten the 7 great canoes bro or was that just bullshit too?@@pariscooper5458

[@standbytogo123]

Oh! no they are not, they came by boat from elsewhere just like everyone else.@@pariscooper5458

[@olsaffa7679]

Never knew the Clarke family were tending kumara around these parts before Cook's time. She must be referring only to a part of her whakapapa... because it suits her.

[@robynwatt4291]

I don't think they had the tools or smarts to cultivate anything.

[@moronicdooshbaggery756]

She wouldn't know what time of year to plant or harvest kumara

[@HomeOfTheKi11er2FkTuff]

There was no such thing as cook you were too much getting read bedtime stories🤣🤦‍♂️

[@olsaffa7679]

@KILLERBEEZ11274 there was no such thing as a Maori nation. Too much reading noble savage stories.

[@iancouch9688]

Play the victim roll..never ends

[@Peter_Pepper_Love]

Straight out of the 🇮🇱 handbook!

[@cyrillawless]

Someone wants to explain to Maori what racism is. The only ones I’ve seen spitting racism is Maori.

[@Joeseph-t2e]

Maori tend to follow the example of African Americans and as a result many of them have become racists/ram raiders/looters/rapists/criminals

[@danielwrightson6699]

Haha they are just making themselves look more ridiculous day by day

[@momogi8519]

For thousand of years the NZ native-indigenous people came across the ocean, yes, BUT all the islands were theirs. Early Māori settlement happened in the North Island between AD 1250 and AD 1275. They navigate and travel the oceans in that region it was ALL THEIRS. White thieves came when? About 200 yrs ago, in the 18th Century. White people are NOT indigenous - just thieves.

[@iancouch9688]

Out of control .

[@momogi8519]

For thousand of years the NZ native-indigenous people came across the ocean, yes, BUT all the islands were theirs. Early Māori settlement happened in the North Island between AD 1250 and AD 1275. They navigate and travel the oceans in that region it was ALL THEIRS. White thieves came when? About 200 yrs ago, in the 18th Century. White people are NOT indigenous - just thieves.

[@tpaine1815]

Isn't it somewhat ironic that she can behave like this in the "English" parliament because of the "english" magna carta and the English bill of rights that gives her the right to speak when in her own culture she is just a woman, with no right to speak on a marae. Look at the way they treated Helen Clark at Waitangi. Sick and tired of this two-faceness. And Youth is no excuse. She knows exactly what she is saying and doing. Why reward her for her youth? Why applaud her rudeness?

[@lindamckenzie6500]

I agree entirely

[@paperclip612]

Agree 👍

[@red2775]

Because if you don't 100% percent support everything she says and does you are a biggoted racist white Supremacist colonizer 🤣

[@steve-xn8ot]

well said, thank you..

[@secondchance6603]

She's fighting a system that hates her and her people so much they have their own political party, flag, rugby team, soccer association, schools, TV/Radio stations, black supremacist gang called Black Power... yeah really oppressed.

[@blairmcalister4628]

Good grief it is never ending with some people. Strangely enough, there are some people who still think they can ride a bike backwards looking at the past 200 odd years ago. They must wake up angry, go thru the day angry and go to sleep at night angry...all the while getting paid 160k (minimum) a year, with all the free travel, cars and so on provided for by the taxpayers of New Zealand, and they still bitch , moan and grizzle about their lot. Perhaps they should give a thought that the poms came here....if it had been the Portuguese, Spanish or Dutch back then, there would not be a single one of them left....just saying. It cant be good for ones soul to be so angry all your life....)))

[@koro287]

' Bitterness leaves more wrinkles on the soul than on the forehead '

[@v1rotait23]

This is what happens when you are perpetually given a free victim card for past injustices from 100+ years ago, and can use ethnic privilage whenever you feel like throwing a tantrum, despite having a good feed at the taxpayer trough... Self entitlement, much! Doesn't surprise me in the slightest...

[@markwigmore2103]

Some people are really upset that the gravy train is about to stop!

[@dpcam1243]

What must it be like to live in that young ladies head all day where every thought emerging from a place of social injustice, how tiring...the sad thing is that she could be doing so much in a positive vain with all that passion.

[@valeriehughes1008]

@@koro287But these are not wrinkles from wisdom these are the wrinkles for greed and want and victim hood.. most have accepted their were wrongs, but on both sides, many tribes lost large areas of their land to utu but have called upon strength to stand tall and to understand what can be righted, but also understand the price of this and balance with wisdom what is really achieved in the end...it is called understanding to move on... it is a small twisted soul who locks themselves in the past.

[@mo-p6x]

Question, where do women sit on the marae? WHEN do they speak, before or after the males, did they have the wheel before or after Cook?

[@paton57]

She's another activist not a politician

[@margaretobrien2679]

I think that asking questions in Maroi in Parliament is madness. As you said most of the population simply cannot understand a word of it. Totally madness.

[@daddybob6096]

@margaretobrien2679 Its a form of bullying, intimidation, for want of a better word. This is how they try to strike fear into their opponents, but in this instance, it's wasted, on most of us New Zealanders, we are not impressed. I'm referring mainly to the war dance scenario.

[@ReginaldHarris-gm8fi]

Well I think the treaty has been misleading an misunderstood isn't that madness too don't you think when pakeha have there version of what there interpretation of the treaty means that's madness

[@PumpkinPie-fw9jr]

Reply to @margaretobrien2679 Is it not her right to speak her language is it your right to speak English is it Chinese right to speak Chinese is it Indian people's right to speak their language???? How dare you be so judgemental it's not your language just like it's not maori people's language to speak English either. What a simple minded human being you are your the one who's totally 😡 mad for speaking her language is every single person's right to speak their own language. That is why they have translators what are you on Karen?????

[@1970brenz]

Or at least translate it straight afterwards. We are not all Maori so we can't possibly all know the language. If you're not from that culture you're not obliged to learn it. It's a choice. The NZ official widely shared language is only English. It's great if people want to learn but not being forced on them.

[@PumpkinPie-fw9jr]

@@1970brenz Well for maori it was forced to speak English and you're a racist . Newzealand was maori speaking before it was English and so you're statement is not correct the language is both English and maori as the treaty is between maori and Pakeha. Just blows me away how arrogant people like yourself can stoop so low as to comment that Newzealand maori have no right to speak their native tongue . You are cheeky disrespectful to all maori and anyone who speaks their own native tongue you're saying that they have no right to speak simply because you can't understand boo hoo 😢Imagine how maori felt when they were told to speak English and beaten for speaking maori and forced to speak English. You can't can you because you're to narrow minded.

[@Bob-c1z]

How embarrassing.. good thing is no-one will ever take the party seriously when they behave like clowns..

[@bigthinker281]

How was that even allowed to happen in parliament? In terms of the noise level, and what is acceptable for this occasion being inside?

[@WhiteHatzz]

Sean junkett the protector of pedophiles..

[@colinmeehan791]

What about the wearing of silly hats,they have zero respect.@@bigthinker281

[@sarathdealwis3750]

Exactly 🎉

[@PumpkinPie-fw9jr]

That's your opinion doesn't mean we all think that way just get over it where are you from.... it's everyone's right to say what they want in parliament lighten up 👆 Doesn't offend me. Wtf is there a rule that says you can not express your self..they have every right maori or pakeha man or woman.

[@MerikaBateman]

This is all just getting ridiculous are the politicians going to actualy do any work?

[@stuartdouce]

2/3 of kids in state care are maori. perhaps she could have used her speach to ask maori to stop abusing their kids.

[@Joeseph-t2e]

Per capita Maori lead the world in child abuse have done for years.

[@pauljones3062]

Back to the Stone Age. Would never get a job in the real world.

[@momogi8519]

Yes. Yes. Leave the native alone white thieves. By the time the first Europeans arrived, Māori had long settled the land, every corner of which came within the interest and influence of a tribal (iwi) or sub-tribal (hapū) grouping

[@nathaniellavery1862]

Jesus I can't stomach this crap anymore. What a shameless joke this country is

[@Dani-wr1to]

Go back to where you come from then 💀 because it’s not here HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[@TrevorCunningham-o1y]

I can only imagine how much progress would be made in the governance of our country if race was taken out of the equation.If only people,all people no matter what their ethnic origins were ,were referred to of citizens of NEW ZEALAND It would eliminate so much time wasting rubbish,eliminate the need to ask over and over how is this going to effect Māori and Pacifica.They are no more or no less one of us and should never have special rights not available to all other citizens

[@valeriehughes1008]

An extremely wise post, thank you!

[@edznyc]

privileged colonialist mindset

[@LindaHough-t9k]

This should not be in Parliament

[@nickharris4383]

This is getting out of control

[@momogi8519]

Oh yeah? Solve it by going back to England. Leave native land alone

[@rattedbug5003]

I wish we could vote on how much mps get paid. Based on their contribution I’m thinking 30k should cover her😂.

[@ofasociety]

Enough to afford enough caffeine so she can wake up and realise she's a nutter.

[@PW-636]

too generous

[@lancedonald6070]

[@myrabateman1790]

​@@ofasocietyyou're the nutter.

[@stevep9041]

What the hell has NZ turned into!!!!

[@v1rotait23]

NZ has turned into a primary school puppet show where the puppet characters are some hand-picked entitled narcissists, and the puppeteers are far off shore in Europe, pulling the financial and ideological strings of bondage to our little land to keep us distracted and in line as per the grand plan! - But, it will all collapse sometime soon.

[@skorpiogrl]

A circus apparently.

[@NoaN06]

It's amazing. Absolutely wonderful to see Māori in parliament. Educated, Māori speaking Māori. Who challenge outdated ideas and racist rhetoric like yours and the many others on this post. THe kōhanga reo generation has arrived to Parliament steps. Hurō!

[@mattclarke3621]

No wonder the maori party isn't taken seriously. Hard to take anything they say seriously. Especially with the lies this young one has peddled, in an effort to get in to parliament.. They're either whinging or talking utter crap..

[@sue.F]

“Problems with her credibility” that would be an understatement

[@AT-gn4wr]

Just honest and has the future ahead of her. She will only get stronger and stronger.

[@sue.F]

@@AT-gn4wr hopefully and one day soon she’ll be both strong and rich enough to buy her own magical kūmara farm where everyone lives in harmony just a they did in her imagined past.

[@AT-gn4wr]

@@sue.F Ummm, she already has 🤣😂.

[@pgreen8531]

Utterly ridiculous behavior from her

[@jpr7365]

They compete against each other who can be the loudest and most ridiculed, they have no shame.

[@victoriasmith1695]

Keha response.

[@lisac1619]

​​@@victoriasmith1695Your same bullshit response on every comment. You're really proud of the fact you can't string two Maori words together 😂

[@craigsnook3605]

I really want to get into politics now. My main ancestors are Scottish. So im really looking forward to playing the bagpipes begore my maiden speech and then lifting my kilt and baring my buttocks at my political opposition. I mean we have to respect all cultures represented in parliament, dont we????? I used to respect and admire our maori culture and traditions in this country. Sadly no more. And i imagine a hell of a lot of other kiwus feel the same. I wish some political parties could learn to read the room. And not just pander to the 3% that voted for them.

[@v1rotait23]

You can't expect maturity from useful idiots who behave like petulant toddlers "throwing a paddy on the floor" (of the house, too!) 🤣

[@NoaN06]

Clearly you have no respect for our culture if you suddenly stop caring because of what exactly? Your ignorance? Your racism? Or the fact that young educated Māori aren't going anywhere. And they have arrived to be heard?

[@edznyc]

your privileged colonizer mentality is speaking, loudly... utterly dismissing a colonized native culture and it's people, who now have some representation in the governance of their country.

[@annemackay-ib4gy]

There needs to be a code of behavior in parliment, this is laughable if she wants to carry out that show piece she needs to go to a marae. Her and the maori party exaggerated and lied about home invasion, she's very dangerous

[@richardpeychers4076]

Where was the Speaker of the house.

[@margaretvanson3601]

She's just too young for the job. Much like wellingtons mayor. I remember being 20 and how little I knew. Then I went into the police and boy did I learn about the world. Maybe all MPS should have to to have some work experience (and I don't mean fresh out of university into Labour's policy unit like Grant Robertson) I mean a real job interacting with real people, especially those paying rates and mortgages, with young children, or caring for elderly people. Then we would get MPS who GET the concerns of the voting public.

[@PW-636]

The wellington mayor is 40 odd. Age isn't the problem with her.

[@leonbonney1236]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@paperclip612]

Agree entirely 👍.

[@valeriehughes1008]

Well said..this child has no life experience how can she make judgements on others who have?

[@pariscooper5458]

Could say the same for that Act lady 😂 she's got no experience 🤷‍♂️

[@anthonysherry2628]

Her family are activists..does she think that her wobbling hands, and big eyes scare us? It made me laugh...😂😂😂😂

[@davidanscombe1106]

No credibility, just another victim

[@momogi8519]

For thousand of years the NZ native-indigenous people came across the ocean, yes, BUT all the islands were theirs. Early Māori settlement happened in the North Island between AD 1250 and AD 1275. They navigate and travel the oceans in that region it was ALL THEIRS. White thieves came when? About 200 yrs ago, in the 18th Century. White people are NOT indigenous - just thieves.

[@damothegreatestone]

Another muppet MP.

[@raewynsnook7289]

@damothegreatestone another coward keyboard muppet I'd say.

[@kj1483]

James Meager's speech in part reads..."My family has never sought the limelight. This entrance into public life won't come easy for us. We are simple, straightforward people from a simple, straightforward part of the world. My dad is Ngāi Tahu, a freezing worker most of his life, a little Māori kid who was kicked out of school at 14 and who never told his parents, hiding in bedroom closets and spending afternoons down the river until he was old enough to convince his folks to let him go to work at 15. Until yesterday, he had never stepped foot in the North Island. His father, my grandfather, was a truck driver and a freezing worker, and my nana was a seamstress and a wool carder in Ashburton. Dad's a hard worker. He's a bloody hard worker. You can't stand on your feet for hours on end on the chain and in the boning room for 40 years without knowing what hard work looks like. Dad wasn't around much growing up and that's put a strain on our relationship, which has never healed and which may never heal, but I don't blame him for that. We are products of our upbringing. We navigate through the world with the tools that we are given, and sometimes those tools just aren't fit for purpose. Forgiveness and redemption are words that are often overused, but they are words that are fit for this moment. We should never judge people based on who they once were. We can only judge someone on who they are today compared to who they were yesterday. And I know my dad is making up for lost time. I'm so glad he's here today and I love him dearly.

[@antmanatthemoment7233]

That's beautiful man

[@valeriehughes1008]

A compassionate and deep thinker, a man who understands his mother's struggles and acknowledges what she did for him in the best way she could as a single mother. He also understand that life made his father the man he was when James was young.....despite all the hardships the outcome has been the creation of a fine young Maori New Zealander who will be respected, loved and admired by all cultures. Well done James.

[@pat1589]

What the hell. Get a hobbies.

[@AT-gn4wr]

James Meager's - only uses his maori side for politics. He never acknowledged it before hand. He was brought a Pākehā mother, just like Winston... No comparison to Hana & Tākuta... 😂 I never voted for Te Pati Māori, but I will sure will the next election.

[@antmanatthemoment7233]

@@AT-gn4wr why bro?

[@xSubutai]

That's all these fake actors will always do. Make a bunch of noise and produce no results.

[@ryanapted3598]

Good thing these clowns aren't running the circus.

[@zaidhakki4054]

Never seen anything like it😀, kids in charge of the country's affairs!!

[@jasperhorace7147]

n exceptionally good reason for not lowering the voting age further,

[@EileenHall-j9f]

Well us grown ups have done a great job of ruling the planet.

[@momogi8519]

Yes. England and Scotland sent thieves 200 years ago - remember that.

[@kdnz3]

No time for activists in parliment.

[@xdeadyoungx]

People are getting VERY sick of Maori. Maori privilege right there.

[@leonbonney1236]

So why not go up to one and say it to their face tough guy?.....naw scared...pfft

[@Bryn-hc8fc]

​@@leonbonney1236you big..go play roblox loser😂

[@carlschuler4262]

Obviously these people don't know how to behave in Parliament. This is not the marae. Totally different institutions.

[@brianrassie3526]

They are turning parliament into a stoneage circus

[@philipreddy6249]

Stop the drama and save NZ as you guys are going broke!

[@momogi8519]

Go to England, see how you like it there

[@jdrei5080]

Im 'part' Maori and in 1977 a Maori lady said to me...'well what are you? Maori or pakeha?' I left this racism to live in another country only to come back 20 years later and NOTHING HAS CHANGED judging by this outbreak.And the other nationalities which make up my DNA are ignored...again. So you can take your one sided view back to the marae lady because I, along with the majority of other mixed race 'citizens' have a preference of acknowledging our accumulative heritage.

[@CelestialInsights]

Congratulations 🙌 that’s exactly how it should be. I worry for those that have caste aside their genetic background, to curse it and feel hatred of it… nothing good is going to come of that at the personal soul level, believe me.

[@barryscott6222]

Hana's problem now is that she is actually going to have to do some work - and meet some real standards and expectations. Good luck with that.

[@jasperhorace7147]

Hope she manages that better than the mayor of Wellington.

[@serenasmith26]

She'll get her mum to do her homework for her, just like school.@@jasperhorace7147

[@moronicdooshbaggery756]

When it gets tough,she will shout racist and misogyny

[@peterwiles1299]

Psychopathic and narcissistic?

[@platypus4657]

Yes.

[@user-rl5nd3ys8p]

And I thought the Australian Greens were Special Needs !

[@yingle6027]

Mate NZ parliament is like a kindergarten

[@kadalora]

Painful, disturbing, aggressive, ungrateful, and setting a dangerous precedent that this type of behaviour is okay (not just in parliament, but in society at large). It's all good to embrace your culture but this is surely not the time and place for it. And what is she going to die for you for exactly?? What are the attacks from every corner?? They seem to be INCREDIBLY enraged about some govt dept names going back to how they used to be, you know, when EVERYONE could understand what they were, and removing the Maori Health Authority which simply wasn't working.. I just don't get how they could be so so upset about it, WTH?

[@digiaotearoa5897]

Mate, She's talking hundreds of years, not yesterday this DJ he not educated enough to even comprehend what this girl was saying and everyone was listening to his uneducated thoughts be careful what you wish for '' that's the saying

[@valeriehughes1008]

@@digiaotearoa5897 All the more reason she shouldn't be allowed to spout forth... it is not clever to try and win an argument when you are spouting a language that is not understood by all...just as every other ethnic New Zealander standing in parliament mouthing off in a language that could not be understood would not be acceptable either.. there is no place for all this nonsense, our parliament is a place for making laws for the country, changing the life of a nation... there is no place for this separatist nonsense that TPM scream and offensively abuse ..it may be important only to you as a very small minority group in the country but the nation just wants financial stability, and good outcomes for ALL New Zealanders and our parliament is the place it is achieved. There is not even any place in an equal NZ which our treaty made us for the likes of a TPM separatist party... that is more fitting to an apartheid South Africa ...

[@NoaN06]

@@valeriehughes1008if you really wanted good outcomes for all new Zealanders than Māori wouldn't be at the bottom of all the worse stats that exist. Health outcomes are lower for Māori etc. Man I don't know why you persist with your deliberately ignorant and kuare comments like you are right.

[@valeriehughes1008]

@@NoaN06 You say I am deliberately ignorant and comment as if I am right... could that be in fact because I am right? In all your comments every one is always to blame and everyone owes Maori... when in fact no one owes Maori for the outcomes of their lives - the choices they make or for the condition of their health ... except Maori themselves. Every other ethnic New Zealander is expected to manage to do this... to stand on their own feet and not expect the taxpayer to always be giving them more and more financial aid - you make Maori sound like retarded children and in need of pity as if they are incapable of looking after themselves. The Maori I have known all my life would cringe at the way you paint them... they are self reliant, proud and strong as a people, inventive and anything but the pathetic way you portray them - as being incapable of managing their own lives... Instead of demanding more handouts and financial assistance for them... help them find the strength that they once had and get back their ability to live off the land, set up their own trading businesses grab all the education they can... that is education that will lead them to a good income to support their families... e.g. we are desperate for all building and trade skills - these are skills that will set up small business for them. Maori are great artists and craftsmen also. Most of all get back to traditional eating which would work wonders on their health outcomes. You and your attitude is a cause of your people's plight - you are holding your people down with the way you think and expect so little of them... the old saying is people will live up to the expectations you have of them... and you have zero expectations for your people... Maori elite should be made to stump up to help their people.. treaty settlements were always meant for all Maori not just a handful on the top of the heap who have lived very fat lives until now... so time they looked after the people with the settlements that were meant for them!

[@lindamckenzie6500]

Boo hoo...another person with a victim mentality....Quite honestly everyone has moments in their lives they would rather have not had......you just have to make the best of it and get on with it.. ..

[@lilith3953]

OMG! New Zealand has it's own AOC.

[@lindac8237]

Hahahaha. This one is AOC and Iham Omar put together!

[@terrymcanalen3031]

When AOC wears a tee shirt that says I'm with stupid, the arrow points straight upwards 😂

[@RIPsookie]

This party should be thrown out

[@BobFlocker]

Wonder why she didn't mention the rat farming, raids, wars, slave taking or cannibalism that was going on alongside the potato farming.

[@jasonpoihegatama1347]

Poor girl she's been led to fight a hopeless fight.

[@chrisrutherfurd9338]

This is why National ruled them out as a coalition partner. And thank goodness for that.

[@outback109]

Welcome to the stoneage.

[@keithgray4407]

Looks like she’s in pain, maybe she should consult a Te Reo speaking brain surgeon .

[@Bryn-hc8fc]

Look at me look at me

[@NZ_Kiwi1010]

She'll have a chin tattoo very soon 😂

[@yingle6027]

So predictable isn't it.

[@Thebuilder-v7q]

You mean a bar code

[@daedalus7677]

@@Thebuilder-v7q In the USA, they call it a 'tramp-stamp'. they do - just sayin' !!

[@momogi8519]

Yes. It is here native land. You do not belong? Go to England then.

[@theobserver2309]

Dear God in heaven, my eyes, my ears! What a disrespectful farce.

[@unclejoe7958]

How much did that cost ? All that downtime. The number of MP’s there all at the cost of taxpayers.

[@momogi8519]

Always about money - not view for traditions or culture.

[@unclejoe7958]

@@momogi8519 absolutely 👍🏻 If any of my employees started screaming about their ancestors on their first day on the job I’d have no option but to dismiss them. Time is money.

[@momogi8519]

@@unclejoe7958 The difference is: she works for the people. Her people elect her, and only they can fire her. Why is it that only white people think they alone matter? And they alone can do anything and get away with it? One day white people everywhere will be enslaved by all people of color, and then we will see how you feel. Have you ever wonder and see yourself in chains, being subjugated, enslaved, and everything you owned (your name, family, culture, home, land) taken from you? Feel it now.

[@operator6786]

Nightmare on maiden speak! where exactly is this country New Zealand heading with a party like this one and a young influenced party member from Huntly speaking in a tongue that is not able to be acknowledged or indeed understood outside of our borders a truly waste of time expression for communication anytime outside a marae..

[@johnstillwell193]

Empty vessels make most noise

[@johnmccarron]

She would still living in the stoneage if we never went there, they would still be eating each other !!

[@momogi8519]

Really? England and Scotland are still in stone age. Go back there.

[@pamelakerr405]

She was pathetic, in my opinion, with her posturing etc. This Maori party is not the Maori party of the past. This lot are just hypocritical activists wih their noses in the trough.

[@marsspacex6065]

At that age you don’t know anything but she does not want to even learn.

[@BustaBunny3045]

Shes a blatant liar, hopefully she doesn't last long in parliament.

[@platypus4657]

Actually, she'll fit right in.

[@webocoli]

That intro rhetoric by the young lady belongs on the battle field Not in Parliament - Just have a look at how it's done in Westminster!

[@danielduplessis1582]

I thought parliament was a place where civilised debates take place for the benefit of the citizens and the country.....

[@WAL12345]

Great navigators and indigenous?? They must have gone on cruising holidays!

[@november50]

Yeah, P&O cruises lol.

[@geoffhughes225]

Captain Cook navigated a lot further

[@michaelgrey7854]

I no longer feel that New Zealand is my country.

[@patu5798]

1:13 is Ferris on the gear ? He looks cooked

[@davidbuck5864]

What a load of codswollop goes on in our Houses of Parliament.

[@barbaratomlinson5404]

She doesn't mind taking the white man's taxes though

[@keitho9508]

Hannah(?) has a good voice, and I enjoyed her item, but it had no place in our debating chamber. Few understood her message. Her approach was rude. Imagine coming to a meeting and putting on such a performance. It would be judged as rude and insensitive and so should be judged here. Unfortunately, TPM is a disruptive force in this Parliament. There is nothing but anger flowing. I hope that their own supporters realise their irrelevance.

[@jasperhorace7147]

Doubtful they will. Back when they were called The Māori Party remember they sat with the John Key government because they were smart enough to realise being in the waka was better than floundering along outside of it. For that they were punished by their voters.

[@valeriehughes1008]

Perhaps it is time for an investigation into where they got the funds to set up the party... how Tamihere was able to help himself to interest free loans from a tax payer funded charity to help Maori in need and instead he takes the tax payer money and sets up TPM. No tax payers were asked if this is what should have happened to the money they gave in good faith for Maori in need. Every other party goes through strict scrutiny as to where their funds came from... this party should be no different.

[@lancedonald6070]

You are 100% "on the money" and I would suggest that there should be a repeal of the tax free status for the so called "Charitable Iwi Corporates" such as Ngithau and Tainuii as they are massively bloated with over 70 Billion in assets . Yet despite this you never hear about any of them donating a few million to our struggling Food Banks for example. If they did it would be trumpeted to high heaven. These massive Iwi corporates are NOT in any way Charities and they do not deserve Tax Exemptions of any type.@@valeriehughes1008

[@mr2981]

Watching that reminded me of President Camacho.