Maori Party: the peoples party (dvd)
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60 mins |
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Description of this Book
Every year is election year for the Maori Party. Since they entered parliament in 2004 they have been courting Maori. Every Maori, voting age or not is important to this Party. Not because the people have the ability to put them into or oust them from Parliament, but because these four MP's, their Party President and their supporters love their people. It's the type of love that sees them supporting from the front, leading from the back, being used as the mangai for Maori rather than being the 'one true prophet. It's the type of love that sees them defer constantly to iwi. It's the type of love borne of injustice and fuelled by a desire for justice. It's the type of love than wills them to unite, iwi to iwi to hapu to urban to rural, Pakeha to Maori. They are a Party seeking kotahitanga. And Maori love them in return. Iwi respect their style of leadership, are empowered when shown deference and so they allow themselves to be united to fight for common causes. This is indeed the people's party. How is it they a small unassuming group of four men and one woman, can transverse tribal lines, unite the fractious urbans and rurals? Is it the issues they bring to the people or is it the individual MP's themselves that win them the hearts and minds of iwi? Or is it both? Maybe it is te iwi Maori themselves who are the phenomenon. Is it that Maori have at last found a vehicle to exert rangatiratanga, unconditionally? Is it that Maori upon hearing their words, repeated back as true and correct by the Party are affirmed and empowered to demand what they deserve, justice? Is it that the phenomenon is Party and People, entwined, inseparable? Producer: Claudette Hauiti Front of the Box Productions Director: Erana Keelan. From Qantas Media Awards Winners comes another insightful documentary detailing the journey of the Maori Party to the 2008 general elections. With high hopes and high expectations of the Party becoming king makers, were the Maori voters able to rise to the occasion and take political control?
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