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27-Jun-2005

PRESENTER: No, I just want to pick up on something else here. You talked about civil unions. Does that mean you do not regard gay people as mainstream New Zealanders?
BRASH: Well they’re clearly not, they’re a small minority of people, but let me be clear. I made it very clear in the debate on that issue that I thought this should be dealt with by referendum because it’s a big change in the civil institutions of society. I also said that in the referendum I would vote for it because I have no problem with same sex couples committing to live together faithfully as heterosexual couples do.
PRESENTER: You simply don’t regard gays as part of mainstream New Zealand?
BRASH: Well they are clearly, by definition, a small minority of New Zealanders...
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2-Jun-2005

Christian political party Destiny New Zealand Party wants to bring in tax credits for couples who reach five yearly milestones of marriage.
Leader Richard Lewis said the tax credits would be given to couples when they reached their 5th anniversary and every five years from then on.
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Related Site - Destiny NZ

14-Apr-2005

Maverick Labour MP John Tamihere has signed up to host a three-hour talk-back radio show.
His show is planned to air at 10am on alternate Sundays on new national station Radio Live, programme director Mitch Harris confirmed today.
Read the full story/Visit the site - NZ Herald

15-Apr-2005

Labour MP Clayton Cosgrove became the fresh target yesterday for Opposition parties in Parliament continuing to exploit the John Tamihere debacle.
And they called on Mr Tamihere to apologise publicly, not just to the Labour caucus, for criticisms about colleagues, gays, unionists, women and the Holocaust.
Read the full story/Visit the site - NZ Herald

13-Apr-2005

In the mid-1990s West Auckland's Waipareira Trust was a touchstone Maori success story. Bland, well-groomed and overpaid public servants would come and be PRd in that strange assortment of buildings overlooking the carparks of Henderson.
Read the full story/Visit the site - NZ Herald

13-Apr-2005

Prime Minister Helen Clark stunned her caucus with a withering reprimand of John Tamihere yesterday before moving a motion of censure, effectively a final warning to him.
The disgraced MP sat silently with his head bowed throughout her speech, which one experienced member described as the most severe "bollocking" he had witnessed. Another said he was "gobsmacked" by it.
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12-Apr-2005

The Prime Minister’s response to a second helping of John Tamihere’s unedited views might strike the public as more surprising than her reaction to the first course. Last week, when Mr Tamihere unburdened himself of candid opinions on his colleagues, he was asked for an apology. Now that his interviewer has published two more of his remarks, Helen Clark has told him to stay away from the caucus and his career in Labour could be at an end. "He has made statements which are deeply offensive to New Zealanders," she said. "The statements are also offensive and utterly unacceptable to the Labour Party."
Read the full story/Visit the site - NZ Herald

12-Apr-2005

A defiant John Tamihere is resisting pressure to resign from the Labour Party and plans to fly to Wellington today to apologise to a caucus meeting of Labour MPs.
The move is certain to infuriate Prime Minister Helen Clark, who ordered the MP to take extended stress leave to reflect on his future.
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11-Apr-2005

A "gutted" John Tamihere was weighing up his future last night after the Prime Minister effectively suspended him indefinitely from the Labour caucus.
Helen Clark ordered Mr Tamihere to take extended leave after remarks he made about the Holocaust - that he was sick of being made to feel guilty over the gassing of Jews - were published.
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11-Apr-2005

Labour’s maverick MP John Tamihere is more isolated than ever after it was revealed he attacked even more people in a controversial interview in which he had already managed to offend most of his colleagues.
Prime Minister Helen Clark said Mr Tamihere was now taking "extended leave" due to "considerable stress" and would not be attending a caucus meeting on Tuesday where he had planned to apologise to colleagues for causing offence.
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10-Apr-2005

Labour MP Clayton Cosgrove ran a "nasty, naughty" campaign of crank calls to Helen Clark and her husband, says John Tamihere in previously undisclosed comments.
Mr Cosgrove had been the ousted minister’s most staunch remaining supporter in the Labour caucus, but last night he was upset and said he would "restrain myself". Later he phoned back with a statement: "That did not happen. It is not true."
Read the full story/Visit the site - NZ Herald

7-Apr-2005

Outspoken Labour MP John Tamihere issued a public expression of "sorrow" last night, immediately welcomed by Prime Minister Helen Clark as "the first step to rebuild a relationship with his colleagues".
Mr Tamihere rejected Helen Clark's earlier suggestion that the comments had been the result of stress or frustration at the level of party support over the Serious Fraud Office investigation.
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5-Apr-2005

Maverick Labour MP John Tamihere should apologise for what he had said, Deputy Prime Minister Michael Cullen said today.
Mr Tamihere today admitted he made an error of judgment in making an extraordinary attack on colleagues and core groups of Labour support.
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6-Apr-2005

Disgraced Labour MP John Tamihere and Labour Party president Mike Williams plan to meet in Auckland today to discuss how he will pave his way back into a caucus from which he has alienated himself.
It is understood the MP plans to apologise to his colleagues for attacking them in a magazine article but this may be done in private, with no grand public gesture.
Read the full story/Visit the site - NZ Herald

5-Apr-2005

Labour's hierarchy has advised volatile MP John Tamihere to take a week's leave after his stinging attacks on party colleagues.
Prime Minister Helen Clark has initially taken a protective stance in defence of Mr Tamihere in the interests of stability after his outburst in the monthly magazine Investigate.
Read the full story/Visit the site - NZ Herald

8-Mar-2005

The likes of self-appointed Bishop Tamaki and United Future MP Paul Adams have often referred to the 'Homosexual Agenda'. While undercover at the weekend's march for family values, a copy of the much talked about agenda was obtained directly from the Head Homosexual. This is the first time this document has been published in New Zealand.
Read the full story/Visit the site - NZ Herald

17-Jan-2005

Tariana Turia may well have wanted a referendum on the Civil Union Bill (which would have made this nation the only one of many reforming the law in this area to have made that a precondition), but most of us accept the need for a nation born in diversity to guard the laws which ensure that diversity with something a little more rigorous than public whim.
I called Dr Brash's position cynical. With the exception of a well-orchestrated, if unimaginative, email campaign to MPs calling for binding citizen-initiated referendums - which to judge by Dr Brash's evangelical zeal for the idea may well be the only new policy proposal presented to National in the past two years - I sense no public demand for the overturning of our parliamentary democracy in favour of an electronic-age version of the Greek city state.
Read the full story/Visit the site - NZ Herald
Related Site - Tim Barnett

Tim Barnett: No need for public whim to dictate fate of MMP

17-Jan-2005

Opinion: Dave Crampton
Don Brash raised some interesting points in last Thursday's Herald about the way we have pushed through social changes - such as prostitution reform, civil unions, and the Property Relationships Act - and says that such issues should not be done with backroom MMP deals and conscience votes managed by the ninth floor of the beehive - as the prostitution and civil union votes were.
Read the full story/Visit the site - Big News with Dave Crampton

15-Jan-2005

Dr Bash presents the failure as symptomatic of a Labour tendency to high-handed social reform. He cites the Civil Unions Act, the legalising of prostitution and the Property Relationships Amendment Act, which treats de facto couples as married for purposes of property divisions.
Dr Brash says, "These changes were, and are, opposed by substantial minorities - in some cases, possibly the majority - of New Zealanders."
Read the full story/Visit the site - NZ Herald
Related Site - Don Brash

14-Jan-2005

But Labour MP Tim Barnett, a key organiser of the push for the prostitution and civil union laws, said both were promised at previous elections and the establishment of a Supreme Court was part of Labour's 2002 manifesto.
Dr Brash's support of referendums was a "desperate" move and reflected a trend worldwide for conservative parties to turn to public votes as they saw issues slip away.
Read the full story/Visit the site - NZ Herald
Related Site - Don Brash

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