Speaking at a press conference, Hipkins said the party appeared to be struggling with internal divisions.
“It’s clear that Te Pāti Māori have some issues that they need to work through, and that right now, as of today, they are not in a shape to contribute positively to a potential future government,” he said.
“They need to sort that out. It’s clear that there’s a lot of internal fracturing going on within Te Pāti Māori. They need to sort that out if they want to play a positive role in New Zealand’s future.”
Hipkins said his focus remained on strengthening Labour’s position ahead of the next election.
“I also want to be very clear, my job between now and the next election is to grow Labour’s share of the vote as high as we can grow it,” he said.
“The stronger Labour is going into a future government, then the less we will need to rely on other parties.”
On Monday, the New Zealand Herald reported it had identified discrepancies involving six MPs, including Te Pāti Māori co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer, between the number of properties they owned and those declared to Parliament’s register of financial interests.
The MPs were Ngarewa-Packer, National’s Gerry Brownlee, NZ First’s Mark Patterson, and Labour’s Jo Luxton, Damien O’Connor, and Ayesha Verrall. All told the Herald they would update their declarations as required.
Since entering Parliament in 2020, Ngarewa-Packer had declared an interest in one property, but following the Herald’s investigation, she updated her declaration to include two additional properties: a residential development in Hāwera and a section in Pātea.
In a post on Facebook, she said, “I made a mistake. I own an empty section in Pātea. I took advice, it was wrong, and I fixed it. I am not naïve about this. I know what it is to be scrutinised to the point of exhaustion, to have every action measured against impossible standards, to be told that strength means never showing strain. But leadership, real leadership, is about honesty. It’s about learning, owning, and continuing forward with integrity, even when the weight is unfairly distributed.
“In this environment, every Māori voice that challenges colonial comfort becomes a target. Every act of resistance is twisted into ‘radicalism.’ Every reset is painted as chaos. Yet our movement is not chaotic, it is courageous. It is Indigenous leadership refusing to fit into systems designed to erase us.”
Broadcaster Chris Lynch is an award winning journalist who also produces Christchurch news and video content for domestic and international companies. This article was originally published by Chris Lynch Media and is published here with kind permission.
“They need to sort that out. It’s clear that there’s a lot of internal fracturing going on within Te Pāti Māori. They need to sort that out if they want to play a positive role in New Zealand’s future.”
Hipkins said his focus remained on strengthening Labour’s position ahead of the next election.
“I also want to be very clear, my job between now and the next election is to grow Labour’s share of the vote as high as we can grow it,” he said.
“The stronger Labour is going into a future government, then the less we will need to rely on other parties.”
On Monday, the New Zealand Herald reported it had identified discrepancies involving six MPs, including Te Pāti Māori co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer, between the number of properties they owned and those declared to Parliament’s register of financial interests.
The MPs were Ngarewa-Packer, National’s Gerry Brownlee, NZ First’s Mark Patterson, and Labour’s Jo Luxton, Damien O’Connor, and Ayesha Verrall. All told the Herald they would update their declarations as required.
Since entering Parliament in 2020, Ngarewa-Packer had declared an interest in one property, but following the Herald’s investigation, she updated her declaration to include two additional properties: a residential development in Hāwera and a section in Pātea.
In a post on Facebook, she said, “I made a mistake. I own an empty section in Pātea. I took advice, it was wrong, and I fixed it. I am not naïve about this. I know what it is to be scrutinised to the point of exhaustion, to have every action measured against impossible standards, to be told that strength means never showing strain. But leadership, real leadership, is about honesty. It’s about learning, owning, and continuing forward with integrity, even when the weight is unfairly distributed.
“In this environment, every Māori voice that challenges colonial comfort becomes a target. Every act of resistance is twisted into ‘radicalism.’ Every reset is painted as chaos. Yet our movement is not chaotic, it is courageous. It is Indigenous leadership refusing to fit into systems designed to erase us.”
Broadcaster Chris Lynch is an award winning journalist who also produces Christchurch news and video content for domestic and international companies. This article was originally published by Chris Lynch Media and is published here with kind permission.
4 comments:
Hipcon's is a liar. He is completely in sync with many of the activists views and he supports the false history. Hipcons has said publically that maori did not cede sovereignty and he has said this many times. What will it take for nz people to wake up?
My god what a disaster.
Good folks of this blog, if you ever need a 'how not to behave or run your life role model' just look at these guys on the left. Everyone from hipkins down is pretty much a failed human being. So they turn to politics. It's all they are useful for. And just look at their behavior. What losers. Do they not have any self respect at all?
Haha, finally Chris hipkins might have figured it out. No they are not in any shape to represent this country Hipkins.
And really neither are you. You presided over a debacle and you will need your walking racist disasters to form a govt.
If you had any moral compass for what is best for this country you wouldn't touch any left leaning party (tpm or greens) with a barge pole.
>"... some issues that they need to work through..."
Understatement of the century so far.
TPM has raised an issue for the rest of us that will need some 'working through': at what stage a party of sedition that treats our democratic institutions with utter contempt has to be barred from holding office.
Post a Comment
Thanks for engaging in the debate!
Because this is a public forum, we will only publish comments that are respectful and do NOT contain links to other sites. We appreciate your cooperation.