Tama Potaka: The Minister responsible for Māori interest

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  • čas přidán 15. 04. 2024
  • He's the Minister for everything Māori, well almost! National Minister Tama Potaka has a big 3 years ahead of him and fields the questions that Te Ao Māori is hyper concerned about right now. The quietly spoken quietly confident lawyer sits down for an at length kōrero with Moana Maniapoto.

Komentáře • 142

  • @food4thort
    @food4thort Před měsícem +39

    Please stop conflating the Treaty (Maori version) with the spurious and invented 'Treaty Principles'. The ToW stands by itself and says what it says. It doesn't need 'principles' to give it validity.

    • @user-oo4zo8yy5u
      @user-oo4zo8yy5u Před měsícem +3

      True that. The Treaty Principals provide governments with a mechanism to deviate from honoring the treaty according to legal standards, rather than adhering to it as a lawyer would interpret.

    • @eugenerewi9076
      @eugenerewi9076 Před měsícem

      @@user-oo4zo8yy5u wrong clown

    • @eugenerewi9076
      @eugenerewi9076 Před měsícem

      @user-oo4zo8yy5u your interpretation is garbage. Your speaking from your arss

    • @NZ-ms3vc
      @NZ-ms3vc Před měsícem +2

      Ae there are no principles in the treaty! Governments need to honour ToW

    • @Neff17
      @Neff17 Před 16 dny

      Is that an expert opinion or is that just your opinion?

  • @Tupunaforever
    @Tupunaforever Před měsícem +6

    Mr Potaka was very professional and restrained, particularly when Moana asked him if he's "mongrel enough", the look on his face said it all, and she kept repeating it, I honestly thought she said "Mongol". @rkara2 in the comments below has an intelligent response.

  • @garrytito2068
    @garrytito2068 Před měsícem +14

    Thank you Tama for realising being in the tent is far more constructive than throwing stones and barking from outside.

    • @anjoune615
      @anjoune615 Před měsícem

      The maori Party was 'in the tent' during Key's administration - and by the end of that time (- at the 2017 election) maori trashed the maori Party, and moved wholesale back to Labour).

  • @vinniebarbarino-1
    @vinniebarbarino-1 Před měsícem +2

    Good interview Tama, i have a lot of respect and faith for you to get things done, there's no rush one thing at a time, thanks

  • @stand_alone_complex5620
    @stand_alone_complex5620 Před měsícem +8

    I'm interested to see how he performs as Conservation minister. How much will he speak up if S Jones opens up conservation land to mining interests?

    • @stand_alone_complex5620
      @stand_alone_complex5620 Před měsícem +2

      Also, great interview Moana.

    • @everardwhangapirita3821
      @everardwhangapirita3821 Před měsícem +4

      This is the most concerning issue I have behind the protection of Te Tiriti. We can’t turn back environmental damage and destruction of that activity on the Whanau.

  • @princessdejanay2418
    @princessdejanay2418 Před dnem +1

    A very well spoken MP and very mature. Would like to know his none Māori culture which is also important. Best wishes to him in his career.

  • @geecee1288
    @geecee1288 Před měsícem +12

    If only a lot more Māori could see this man as an inspiration rather than a threat, imagine what they could be as a culture

    • @Steven38790
      @Steven38790 Před měsícem +1

      Wrong foot i suppose you don't hear what he is saying listen word play brush off answers devaluation

    • @adriandocherty778
      @adriandocherty778 Před měsícem +1

      Could you be a bit more spasific there please bro??
      The inspiration and what THEY COULD BE??

    • @Steven38790
      @Steven38790 Před měsícem

      @adriandocherty778 bro just got to listen trying to remove Maori trusts due to equality no trusts no owners free land goes back to fighting like the musket wars

  • @franklove9117
    @franklove9117 Před měsícem +24

    Great interview Tama and Moana but once again you have not face what are the true problem with people not going to school or work taking no responsibility blaming others we need to look at ourselves we talk about family but we cannot look after each other this is a Maori problem not the government

    • @avogue7831
      @avogue7831 Před měsícem

      The government is responsible for and to its population, we find a safeguard in our constitutional arrangements including Article 3 of Te Tiriti o Waitangi, this is not replaced by iwi, Hapū, or even whānau for example, we don't say superannuitants/Vetrans are no longer productive so their families are responsible for them!.

    • @Neff17
      @Neff17 Před 15 dny

      Under that line of thought, ‘it’s a Māori problem and not a govt problem’. Then should the solution be a Māori solution..? Because there are people who are trying to do that, but whenever they do there’s a push back from society that say it’s giving Māori special treatment… instead of just letting us get on with addressing these ‘Māori problems’. By Māori for Māori

    • @JG-us9lu
      @JG-us9lu Před 10 dny

      ​@@Neff17How many real Moaris are there. 0

    • @Neff17
      @Neff17 Před 10 dny

      @@JG-us9lu according to who…

    • @JG-us9lu
      @JG-us9lu Před 10 dny +1

      @@Neff17Obviously not you. How many are there?

  • @geoffneal9146
    @geoffneal9146 Před měsícem +2

    "Bureaucratic molasses" is a great term to describe the Labourious Party 2017-23!

  • @aaronmoore9417
    @aaronmoore9417 Před měsícem +4

    Another fantastic interview. While I don’t support his coalition in the slightest, I thought Tama came across as sincere. I do fear though that in the near future he will get stuck between towing the party line and listening to the competing views of his wider whanau. As a fellow Māori I genuinely wish him luck.

    • @patricknaera
      @patricknaera Před měsícem +5

      For me, it's the damage he is apart of now as he supports the party line that will take years to repair in the future.

    • @aaronmoore9417
      @aaronmoore9417 Před měsícem

      @@patricknaera you’re not wrong Patrick.

    • @iamrpak
      @iamrpak Před měsícem

      @@patricknaerahe didn’t join up to work with ACT and NZ First though hopefully that’ll change his tune when they go deeper in to cuts to Māori.

    • @rodneynikora358
      @rodneynikora358 Před měsícem

      Looking forward to the future, time will tell, kia kaha tama, kia kaha kia koe,❤

  • @user-hr3bh1up5d
    @user-hr3bh1up5d Před měsícem +5

    Potaka kupapa

  • @AilsaPehi
    @AilsaPehi Před měsícem +13

    When will iwi participation kick in? The next campaign muster? Nothing is locked in. Maori incentives in health despite positive results have been stripped, and he's talking about investments and projects? I don't believe anything this coalition government says. I have no trust, confidence or loyalty. It's about their ideology.

    • @anjoune615
      @anjoune615 Před měsícem +2

      Absolutely!

    • @ohnean1
      @ohnean1 Před měsícem

      Tautoko !

    • @Duckz558
      @Duckz558 Před měsícem

      another show?if legit hardly spike korero?sorry bro wrong crowd makes me think independences?

    • @StGammon77
      @StGammon77 Před měsícem

      Better than witchcraft and racism

  • @taniajonathan1019
    @taniajonathan1019 Před 2 dny

    Question what is a mut?

  • @michaeljohns6105
    @michaeljohns6105 Před měsícem +6

    Tama. Pat yourself on the back. I so enjoy listening to reason... Will Moana think this is a Holocauast , Genicide , ... Debbs will

    • @iamrpak
      @iamrpak Před měsícem +2

      You’re the only one bringing it up.

  • @mra4955
    @mra4955 Před měsícem +12

    interviewer:
    'im a real maori and I'm gonna test you and see if you're a real Maori or a plastic one'
    yawn.

  • @arnedomi
    @arnedomi Před měsícem +2

    Good interview!

  • @nzed16323
    @nzed16323 Před měsícem +1

    Great interview. Yes Trump did start the awareness , could be said that Winston has followed suit.

  • @taniajonathan1019
    @taniajonathan1019 Před 2 dny

    argument on both sides

  • @georgiegirlization
    @georgiegirlization Před měsícem +1

    Yep new housing opened in Hamilton west are glorified slums. High density housing. No place for children to play we are living on top of one another, upset the elderly in the nearby retirement village. Not enough housing since 300 kainga ora are getting booted.

  • @stopcogovernance
    @stopcogovernance Před měsícem +3

    The big 'missing' from this interview is what Potaka believes about the Treaty e.g. did Maori cede sovereignty or not? Is the Littlewood draft the final English draft of the Treaty or not? If not, why not? What's his definition of kawanatanga? tino rangatiratanga? Taonga? Why is the waitangi tribunal not using the Maori version of the Treaty as it's authority? An so on. Big question not asked and therefore not answered.

    • @adriandocherty778
      @adriandocherty778 Před měsícem

      I don’t understand why the words “CEDE SOVEREIGNTY” would even be used instead of “GIVE UP EVERYTHING FOR SOME LADY KING TO RULE OVER THESE SAVAGES/ CANNIBALS!!
      World history tells of broken treaties, lies deceit, spreading small pox n other diseases, slave trade of indigenous peoples of colour and non??🤷🏽🤷🏽
      A half damaged treaty that was where? And reappeared when? Saying?? CEDED SOVEREIGNTY??
      🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤣😂
      Luv to see the names and family tree of this history!!🤣😂
      U would think the British monarchy would have both copies in full??😝😛

    • @Neff17
      @Neff17 Před 16 dny

      The reason interviewers don’t ask these questions is because they’ve been answered time and time again. It’s not even a debate. Even David Seymour, as stupid as he is, knows the answered to this

  • @lprice2991
    @lprice2991 Před měsícem +4

    Tama Potaka seems to havs a proud background in "walking the walk" for Maaori as Maaori - but how can someone who says he truly supports Maaori be politically aligned with National?

    • @russellriley7820
      @russellriley7820 Před měsícem +1

      I didn’t realise that Māori weren’t allowed to support a right of centre government… out of curiosity, if I go to the left and keep going further left does that make me even more Maori? Thanks for re-educating me (Te Atiawa, Ngati Tama(right of centre)).

    • @jr8899
      @jr8899 Před 5 hodinami

      How have the last 6 years been form Maori,cost of living, inflation,lack of housing, immigration,seems the last left government did nothing for Maori,only elites which have done very well out of it

  • @yeahdefinitely6607
    @yeahdefinitely6607 Před měsícem +2

    16:30 Potaka talks about opportunities for Iwi participation etc. The systems and mechanisms established under the last Labour government were not Labour initiatives. They were Māori-driven initiatives over the past two + decades because successive government policies have failed. They were co-participation and partnership arrangements. This government has completely undermined those efforts and resources and set us right back. We need long term, bipartisan support, not reviews every election that stunt progress.

  • @andrewbrownlie2764
    @andrewbrownlie2764 Před měsícem

    Great. Don't have any issues with Maori culture at all
    Do have a problem with this sort of driven separatism. What is the aim and desired outcome here. Just to show how Important this is to Kiwis in 2 weeks there have only been 99 comments. Maybe we're all over this.

  • @shanegibson3581
    @shanegibson3581 Před 3 hodinami

    We know who the Mongrel is..

  • @eugenerewi9076
    @eugenerewi9076 Před měsícem +3

    Blinking tells us lies lies lies. Big pay out a boy

    • @russellriley7820
      @russellriley7820 Před měsícem +2

      What a load of rubbish. Blinking is a natural body reaction to both keep the eyeball clean but also to lubricate the eyeball to move within the lids.
      If we used your premise then how can you trust either?
      My mother (Ngati Tama, Te Atiawa) used to say never trust a man(person) with a moustache… I used to ask her how she got on with Movember.

    • @Steven38790
      @Steven38790 Před měsícem

      @@russellriley7820 must be young blinking continuously is another form of breaking under pressure brush off answers that are not answers deflection 101 body language

    • @eugenerewi9076
      @eugenerewi9076 Před 28 dny

      @russellriley7820 body language posture blinking. He's a Puppet . This shameful government is falling apart

  • @taniajonathan1019
    @taniajonathan1019 Před 2 dny

    both

  • @user-xu8ns2oh2y
    @user-xu8ns2oh2y Před měsícem

    Talking now not that time o Turiana time National is in riddles. Founders of National is democratic against Maori

  • @taniajonathan1019
    @taniajonathan1019 Před 2 dny

    Mongrel you should be able to answer that right?

  • @petertheobald9624
    @petertheobald9624 Před měsícem +3

    Kia ora Moana - I think you are one of the better Journalists I have seen for a long time. I find you respectful but not afraid to dig and ask challenging questions. I look forward to more interviews where you hold our ministers to account.

  • @aaronmorgan8819
    @aaronmorgan8819 Před měsícem +4

    "bla fuck'n blaah"...

    • @user-oo4zo8yy5u
      @user-oo4zo8yy5u Před měsícem

      That's not very constructive. Your comment is offensive to the Rangatira in your profile picture.

    • @aaronmorgan8819
      @aaronmorgan8819 Před měsícem +3

      oh, apologies !
      I meant "baa, baah, ba ahah"...

    • @user-oo4zo8yy5u
      @user-oo4zo8yy5u Před měsícem

      @@aaronmorgan8819 you should change your profile pic to an amoeba

  • @stephenlennon7369
    @stephenlennon7369 Před měsícem +2

    Pakeha use to call maori "the New Zealanders"

    • @jaydoole3169
      @jaydoole3169 Před měsícem +1

      And Maori used to eat each other. Things change. Our children are their children.

    • @eugenerewi9076
      @eugenerewi9076 Před měsícem

      Aotearoa

  • @taniajonathan1019
    @taniajonathan1019 Před 2 dny

    try being a mut

  • @PhilCollier-eh1dd
    @PhilCollier-eh1dd Před měsícem +7

    New Zealanders voted to stop the Maorification of New Zealand , the people have spoken get over it, ps hurry up and get road signs and Govt departments back to English names so we all know where we are going and what dept to go to

    • @stand_alone_complex5620
      @stand_alone_complex5620 Před měsícem +4

      Oh no... is learning new words to hard for your widdle brain?

    • @eugenerewi9076
      @eugenerewi9076 Před měsícem

      Red neck

    • @Neff17
      @Neff17 Před 16 dny

      That’s a good point. People like you are extremely confused by road signs I.e 1 word in Māori. Despite this, Seymour wants you to have a vote on what you think the treaty says… but how could you vote on that when you can’t even read a road sign?

  • @Duckz558
    @Duckz558 Před měsícem

    part of there matrix of depression vulnerable position😮 control grabs

  • @MsDontbelieveit
    @MsDontbelieveit Před měsícem

    Nga mihi Moana

  • @user-hr3bh1up5d
    @user-hr3bh1up5d Před měsícem +3

    Lyin' luxon n his tobacco goons

  • @rkara2
    @rkara2 Před měsícem +6

    Good god moana you have been walking on this earth long enough to realise that the way Moari govern is not the same as the way pakeha govern.
    If you want the current governance pattern to change then you have to start with Maori governance and not expect somebody who is serving the pakeha governance to do it for you.
    Moari govern at the hapu level not at the iwi level like the pakeha. If you want Maori to be able to make their own politics then a hapu level type governance system has to be invented.

    • @stephenlennon7369
      @stephenlennon7369 Před měsícem +5

      Got any suggestions?

    • @Tupunaforever
      @Tupunaforever Před měsícem +1

      Well said

    • @dgm2593
      @dgm2593 Před měsícem

      All Maori tribes need to form there own tribal government. You have a Maori government and crown government. Maori and crown government to form a joint venture in sharing resources. Maori to govern Maori and crown to govern pakeha.

    • @eugenerewi9076
      @eugenerewi9076 Před měsícem +1

      Maori will do better job this is our country. Wake up nody

  • @marianaandrews6274
    @marianaandrews6274 Před měsícem +6

    He's had the PR prep to maximum slickness but he can't hide the fact that he represents a government intent on attacking and undermining Māori at every turn...he's trotted out to do the Māori thing for the "Mussa" but for all his reo, experience and big portfolios, they don't pay any damn mind to him...he's way down the ladder of actual power and we all know it!

    • @user-oo4zo8yy5u
      @user-oo4zo8yy5u Před měsícem +2

      He's a Lawyer. What are your skill sets?

    • @ohnean1
      @ohnean1 Před měsícem +5

      @@user-oo4zo8yy5u Lawyer or not, he gave me the impression he wanted to be this govs ... "good Māori"

    • @marianaandrews6274
      @marianaandrews6274 Před měsícem +1

      ​@user-oo4zo8yy5u, so what if he's a lawyer!!

    • @user-oo4zo8yy5u
      @user-oo4zo8yy5u Před měsícem

      @@marianaandrews6274 He's a competent person unlike the unqualified, white privilege Pakeha in parliament.

    • @user-oo4zo8yy5u
      @user-oo4zo8yy5u Před měsícem +1

      @@ohnean1 That's your prejudiced brain ruining your ability to think critically.

  • @user-ym5dm9xd5w
    @user-ym5dm9xd5w Před měsícem +1

    You can see the division between these two Maori. One of these two Kiwis has been brainwashed by the European. The other man is a proud sounding Maori.
    If Maori can not unite Aotearoa is lost.

  • @poerava
    @poerava Před měsícem +1

    This wicked government reversed legislation that has dug the graves for 4000-6000 New Zealander’s. Mostly Māori.
    How does this clown sleep at night?
    Must be a good pay packet.

  • @retimixshotcrete5870
    @retimixshotcrete5870 Před měsícem

    Kia Ora Tama

  • @jesswhaanga8643
    @jesswhaanga8643 Před 5 dny

    She should ask him about the ridiculous law that has ripped off the whanau inTokumaru Bay Tairawhiti region .The gisborne city council controls perpetual lease which is blatant theft of maori owners land!!

  • @dgm2593
    @dgm2593 Před měsícem +5

    What document is the foundation of our country? The Maori version or the pakeha version? 540 chiefs signed the Maori version and only 40 chiefs signed the english version of the treaty. The Maori version did not cede sovereignty!!!!

    • @StGammon77
      @StGammon77 Před měsícem

      Did so, it's a mirror of the English

    • @dgm2593
      @dgm2593 Před měsícem +2

      @@StGammon77 Wrong! The 540 chiefs that signed the Maori version did not cede sovereignty. Maori language and English language are not the same language. Words have different meanings. Try and at least use your imagination please. Thankyou

  • @JonTeriini
    @JonTeriini Před měsícem +2

    Te kanohi kitea ...

  • @dgm2593
    @dgm2593 Před měsícem +3

    If Rangatira chiefs didnt cede sovereignty? Then why are we still under there spell of control and power. The power and control needs to come back to us!!!

    • @StGammon77
      @StGammon77 Před měsícem +3

      Then scrap the Treaty and fight us then

    • @dgm2593
      @dgm2593 Před měsícem +1

      @@StGammon77 bring it on boi!!!!