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This week the Supreme Court
dismissed the Maori Council's water appeal,
and Labour leader David Shearer dumped Maori Affairs
and Treaty settlements from his new-look front bench.
It's no wonder the release of Tame Iti was being greeted
as good news by Maori politicians.
In today's wrap of the week that was,
Tina Wickliffe ponders whether NZ's newest political prisoner at large
has a future career in Parliament.
Tame Iti has been released from Queen Elizabeth's net.
I miss the inmates. I cry for them - they're in there, I'm out here.
But bail conditions have him locked down until October next year.
I don't agree that he should ever have been imprisoned.
The question, Scotty, is where is the Police Conduct Authority report?
And now the small man of Tuhoe is being compared
with the big man of South Africa.
And Tame Iti has a new political flag to wave.
Where do iwi and hapu fit within
the prison system for inmates?
An issue for friends in Wellington to consider.
How can I align my own hapu focus with the machinations of Parliament?
Maybe he can tell us.
Tame Iti to stand for Mana at the next elections?
Tame Iti stands for his own mana - the mana of Tuhoe.
Now he awaits the decision for his appeal to the Supreme Court.
It's hoped he'll hear a different verdict than that for the water.
That comes later. This week, Iti has a dog to reacquaint himself with.
Tina Wickliffe, Te Karere.