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NationalSeptember 7

Electoral Commission apologises over inquiry blunder

The Electoral Commission is apologising for releasing screenshots that identified the person who took them to the team of a political candidate who is under investigation.

NationalJuly 20

Maori Party announces six Pasifika candidates

The Maori Party officially has some Pasifika backing, with the announcement that six candidates of Pacific descent will run in the upcoming general election.

NationalJuly 12

Maori Party looks to Govt, iwi for regional rail growth

Partnerships between iwi and Government to develop a strong network of regional rail connections could generate thousands of jobs and billions of dollars, the Maori Party says.

EditorialJuly 21

What price change?

Changes to Whanau Ora trumpeted by the minister in charge of the scheme, Maori Party co-leader Tariana Turia, unfortunately seem only to have raised more concerns with critics.

NationalJanuary 24

Leadership challenge in Maori Party

The Maori Party council will meet today to discuss a call for co-leader Pita Sharples to stand down.

NationalFebruary 3

Week in Politics: Maori Party-National stoush sign of trouble ahead

National's "mixed ownership model" - the innocuous-sounding vehicle tasked with making the party's unpopular privatisation agenda more appetising - paradoxically may yet end up making the partial sell-offs of state corporations even less palatable to voters.

NationalFebruary 1

Key confident Maori Party will stay

The Maori Party's suggestion that it might walk out on its relationship with National has been played down by the Prime Minister.

EditorialFebruary 1

Treaty entanglements

Even before Parliament reassembles for the year, the temperature of politics rises.

NationalDecember 14

Sharples holds on to Maori Party role

The Maori Party's Pita Sharples has been re-elected as the party's co-leader after fellow MP Te Ururoa Flavell told the party he was unwilling to challenge Dr Sharples for the position.

NationalDecember 11

Free to oppose asset sales

Developing Whanau Ora, a ministerial committee on poverty and a new focus for Te Puni Kokiri are the centrepiece of an agreement reached yesterday between National and the Maori Party on confidence and supply.

NationalDecember 4

Confidence and supply agreement focus of party hui

The Maori Party hui over a proposed confidence and supply agreement with National began last night but ministerial positions would not be discussed, Maori Party president Pem Bird told The New Zealand Herald.

NationalNovember 27

More than 'short-term gains' wanted

Despite a battering at the polls, Maori Party leaders will today push John Key for more than "short-term gains" as the party seeks to solidify its position in the National-led Government.

NationalNovember 20

A Maori Party, Labour battleground

The Otago Daily Times is profiling the region's electorates, the candidates, and the issues in the lead-up to this month's general election. Reporter Eileen Goodwin takes a look at Te Tai Tonga.

NationalNovember 11

Maori Party wants te reo available in schools

The Maori Party wants to make te reo "compulsorily available" in schools by 2015 but pupils would not be compelled to take the subject.

NationalJuly 11

Brash challenges Maori Party to debate

ACT leader Don Brash is challenging the Maori Party to a debate after his party ran controversial racial ads at the weekend.

NationalJune 26

Talks with Maori Party sought

Mana Party leader Hone Harawira says he will persist in seeking new talks with the Maori Party despite initial resistance from Maori Party co-leader Pita Sharples and his own Mana members.

NationalJune 23

Maori Party calls for Harawira apology

The Maori Party is calling on Mana Party leader Hone Harawira to apologise for his outburst against by-election rival Solomon Tipene.

NationalJune 21

Turia not pressured over by-election gaffe - party

The Maori Party says co-leader Tariana Turia was not pressured to admit she "stuffed up" in effectively writing off her own candidate in the Te Tai Tokerau by-election.

NationalApril 8

Maori Party rules out contesting Harawira seat, for now

The Maori Party is ruling out standing against Hone Harawira in his Te Tai Tokerau electorate - for now.

NationalMarch 23

Harawira urges Maori to back away from Bill

As new foreshore legislation makes its way through Parliament independent MP Hone Harawira, has written to his former Maori Party colleagues pleading them to pull support for it.

NationalFebruary 22

Harawira on brink of expulsion

Hone Harawira's career as a Maori Party MP is all but over, with the party's national council expected to today endorse a disciplinary committee recommendation to expel him.

NationalFebruary 22

Committee votes to expel Harawira

The Maori Party committee considering a complaint against Hone Harawira has recommended that his party membership be cancelled.

NationalFebruary 21

Flavell has no regrets about complaint

Maori Party MP Te Ururoa Flavell says he has no regrets about making the complaint which has led to the Maori Party considering Hone Harawira's future.

EditorialFebruary 14

Political pragmatism rules foreshore

When, with the support of the Maori Party, the Government introduced its replacement for the Foreshore and Seabed Act, it warned that if a consensus could not be found the status quo would remain.

NationalFebruary 8

Future uncertain as Harawira refuses to give ground

Hone Harawira's future with the Maori Party is on a knife edge after he today refused to give any ground and continued his criticisms of the party.

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