When Don Brash, the former National Party leader, delivered his infamous Orewa Speech, criticising an invented “Māori privilege”, in 2004, the then prime minister deployed Mallard to lead Labour’s strategic response. In the 1999 to 2008 term Mallard held a range of portfolios including education, labour, the environment, state services, broadcasting, state-owned enterprises, and sport and recreation.
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NewsIwi input needed on water services to marae, papakāinga amid three waters reforms- wWorking group
A Three Waters working group wants iwi involvement on how drinking water and wastewater services should be supplied to marae and papakāinga.
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Fluoride in Te Tai Tokerau water supplies likely
Fluoride will likely soon be added to thousands of Northlanders' drinking water - as the government moves to impose the controversial additive's inclusion in council water supplies.
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Green light for three waters
The government says it will plough ahead with the vast majority of its three waters reforms, saying 45 of 47 of the recommendations suggested by its working group will be implemented.
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Working group wants major changes to three waters reform
A public shareholding structure to maintain public ownership of water assets is being recommended by the Three Waters working group on representation, governance and accountability.
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Waikato River not solution to Auckland's water crisis
Waikato-Tainui has launched an appeal to the High Court to challenge a Watercare consent to take millions of litres of water from its ancestral Waikato River to pump into Auckland consumers' taps.
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Councillor fumes over 'redneck' Napier water policy
Napier City Council is pushing back on submitting what it thinks of the Three Waters Reforms, which reduce the number of water authorities in the country and involve iwi/Māori.
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Northland iwi issue a traffic alert on the water
Northland iwi and local government agencies are coordinating Covid-19 activities to meet the needs of their people under lockdown. But they say one problem is policing the number of people spending lockdown on boats who are entering the region.
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Ngāti Awa applauds court decision over Ōtākiri Spring
Leonie Simpson: "We are fighting for our right to preserve and look after all of our treasures."
