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Te Tai Tokerau meet over Harawira
Suspended Maori Party MP Hone Harawira spent today talking with constituents in his Tai Tokerau electorate following a disciplinary hearing in Wellington on Wednesday. Te Tai Tokerau electorate chair Lisa McNab told NZPA Mr Harawira had
Turia defends backing for seabed bill
The mainstream parties don't make their decisions based on what is fair, just or moral. They base it on ... politics.
'Shoddy' seabed deals thwarted
The Government has bowed to pressure over the foreshore and seabed repeal bill and ditched a provision that would have allowed secret deals to be done with iwi to award customary title.
Goff: Foreshore, seabed process 'absolute disgrace'
Phil Goff says a parliamentary committee ignored the "overwhelmingly" number opposed to the new foreshore and seabed legislation when they recommended it be passed without amendment today.
Hone Harawira's statement on his caucus suspension
The statement delivered by Maori Party MP Hone Harawira following his suspension from the Maori Party cacus.
Harawira wants to stay with party
Hone Harawira is remaining defiant and has criticised the "public relations disaster" for the Maori Party, but wants to stay with the party and stand for it at the next election.
Goff refuses to rule out Harawira as coalition partner
Phil Goff has refused to rule out Hone Harawira as a somewhat unlikely potential coalition partner following this year's election.
Harawira suspension follows years of disunity - Fox
Division between Hone Harawira and Maori Party leadership ran so deep the party caucus had difficulty working together, Derek Fox claims.
Harawira arrives at Parliament
MP Hone Harawira has arrived at Parliament to front up to Maori Party colleagues after being suspended from their ranks yesterday.
Support for Harawira starting to wane - kaumatua
Hone Harawira has widespread support in his electorate - but that support is starting to wane, a Ngapuhi kaumatua says.
Harawira hits back at suspension
Maverick Maori Party MP Hone Harawira says he is "hugely disappointed" by the decision to suspend him from caucus, saying it showed "complete disregard" for the complaint process two days out from a disciplinary committee meeting.
Faith in Harawira lost - caucus
Rogue MP Hone Harawira has been suspended from the Maori Party for what its leadership describes as a five year legacy of ill discipline.
<i>Audrey Young:</i> Too little too late for Harawira
Hone Harawira's suspension from the Maori Party caucus this afternoon apparently took Harawira by surprise, as it did everyone else.
Maori Party shouldn't ape others - Harawira
Rogue MP Hone Harawira says the Maori Party is not mainstream and should not ape the rules and regulations of other parties.
Stick to party, Sharples tells voters
Pita Sharples has warned Maori voters not to let Hone Harawira derail the party and ruin the "last chance" of a strong Maori-based party in Parliament.
Hone has 'no intention' of leaving
Hone Harawira says he has no intention of leaving the Maori Party, despite saying some 'dickheads' within it were trying to expel him.
Harawira accuses 'dickheads' of trying to get rid of him
Hone Harawira doesn't seem to be in a mood to reconcile his differences with the Maori Party, saying today "dickheads" within it were trying to get rid of him.