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Merepeka Raukawa-Tait
Merepeka Raukawa-Tait is a columnist for the Rotorua Daily Post
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Merepeka Raukawa-Tait: Where have all the children gone?
OPINION: There's no quick fix, and parents are not failing.
Merepeka Raukawa-Tait: I'm about to lose my job but I'm not sorry to go
OPINION: Change should happen when it's needed most
Opinion: Not wanted or valued by Labour - I don't blame Louisa Wall for leaving politics
OPINION: MPs should be above jealousy and envy towards one of their own.
Opinion: Crisis after crisis - and many families will not survive
MEREPEKA RAUKAWA-TAIT: Collective leadership is needed to sort the country's woes.
Merepeka Raukawa-Tait: The mess in Wellington can hardly be called a protest
Comment: Protesting is more than a big get together, more than a party.
Opinion: When Queen's reign ends, republic question will re-emerge
Is an overseas monarch still appropriate to New Zealand's evolving identity?
Merepeka Raukawa-Tait: Euthanasia decision one of my hardest
OPINION: I had to be sure I had enough information to make a decision I could live with.
Merepeka Raukawa-Tait: Oranga Tamariki is 'dysfunctional'
OPINION: It's the responsibility of whānau, hapu and iwi to look after their own children.
Merepeka Raukawa-Tait: What marrying a native te reo Māori speaker taught me
OPINION: Theo explained that until 'I wanted' te reo I wouldn't be interested in learning.
Merepeka Raukawa-Tait: Three Waters loomed large at LGNZ forum
OPINION: Overriding concern was accountability to local ratepayers would be removed
Opinion: Abusing service industry staff is not on
Let's not come out the other side of Covid meaner in attitude and human spirit.
Merepeka Raukawa-Tait: Māori demand the same level of healthcare as Pākehā
If health is 'needs-based', why haven't Māori health needs been addressed yet?
Merepeka Raukawa-Tait: Māori can be trusted to look after their own
What we saw playing out in Hawke's Bay shows little has changed
Comment | Israel Folau gives Christians a bad name
Holier-than-thou people are hard to budge, they're not the "contaminated ones"
Merepeka Raukawa-Tait: Kindness is not a sign of weakness
Merepeka Raukawa-Tait: No one should have been surprised by our Prime Minister last week.
Merepeka Raukawa-Tait: The racists I look out for are the covert ones
Merepeka Ruakawa-Tait: The racists I look out for are the covert ones.