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Merepeka Raukawa-Tait
Merepeka Raukawa-Tait is a columnist for the Rotorua Daily Post
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OPINION: MPs should be above jealousy and envy towards one of their own.
MEREPEKA RAUKAWA-TAIT: Collective leadership is needed to sort the country's woes.
Comment: Protesting is more than a big get together, more than a party.
Is an overseas monarch still appropriate to New Zealand's evolving identity?
OPINION: I had to be sure I had enough information to make a decision I could live with.
OPINION: It's the responsibility of whānau, hapu and iwi to look after their own children.
OPINION: Theo explained that until 'I wanted' te reo I wouldn't be interested in learning.
OPINION: Overriding concern was accountability to local ratepayers would be removed
Let's not come out the other side of Covid meaner in attitude and human spirit.
If health is 'needs-based', why haven't Māori health needs been addressed yet?
What we saw playing out in Hawke's Bay shows little has changed
Holier-than-thou people are hard to budge, they're not the "contaminated ones"
Merepeka Raukawa-Tait: No one should have been surprised by our Prime Minister last week.
Merepeka Ruakawa-Tait: The racists I look out for are the covert ones.