Tobacco Inquiry Debate
Mr Speaker – I’d like to dedicate this short speech to some very special people. To Huhana Mihinui, who filed the Waitangi Tribunal claim to eliminate smoking among Maori; To Maori Marsden, Ngaitakoto elder, rangatira, tohunga, mentor, and orator – whose death from smoking made me so angry that I gave up the day he [...]
The Cheek of Youth: 15 August 2010
I’ve had some rangatahi doing work experience down in my office – a couple from Bay College and a couple from Whangaroa, and I am really buzzed to see what a positive bunch of kids we got comin’ out of some of our schools in the north. And cheeky!!! The Bay College girls were really [...]
