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The Rātana Church is calling for calm when politicians arrive at its annual celebrations near Whanganui this weekend.
Rātana Church Photo: Wikicommons / CC BY-SA
There are tensions about the signing of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and some Māori attending the hui want to voice their concerns to MPs when they arrive at Rātana on Sunday.
Rātana church committee secretary Wiremu Meremere said it understood there were people who would like to make a statement.
"Having the nation's media here, there is the possibility of some kind of protest."
Protests have been threatened at the Waitangi Day celebrations on 6 February at Waitangi if the TPP is signed on its scheduled date, two days before the anniversary.
But Mr Meremere said people were being asked to come to celebrate the birthday of the church's founder, Tahupōtiki Wiremu Rātana, not to make a political statement.
"We don't condone the protest but we understand that the people's feelings are running high at this time
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Volume , Week 56 - Tuesday, 12 October
HILARY CALVERT (ACT): Today I stand before the House, honoured to take my place as a member of Parliament for ACT New Zealand. I pay tribute to those whose hard work and dedication to the ACT Party and its principles over many years have brought me here today. I thank the electors who made the choice to vote for the ACT Party. I hope I can live up to their expectations. I also thank the people of Epsom who made strategic decisions that have supported the ACT Party in Parliament.
Mahatma Gandhi in Young India in described the first of seven social sins as politics without principles. As the members who have shared, and continue to share, the privilege of being part of the government of New Zealand have done before me, I come before you with my own politics, informed by my own principles. There is no government independent of the people; good government is the voice of the people. It has three roles: protection of its citizens, provision
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