Pages tagged "Shane Jones"
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NZ First MP issues race-based election bribe stunner
Posted on The Update by Mike Butler · October 11, 2020 7:29 PMA $100 million grant for marae from the Provincial Growth Fund announced by the MP struggling to return to Parliament is a stunning display of race-based pork-barrelling by a party that normally courts the one-law-for-all vote.
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Waikato tribe’s water ransom bid deplored
Posted on The Update by Mike Butler · June 29, 2020 8:38 AMUnder no circumstances whatsoever should the Waikato tribe – or any tribe – hold to ransom a third of the country's population, Infrastructure Minister Shane Jones told a select committee on Thursday.
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