Papa Mike McRoberts

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1,801 appearances 13 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 21 Sep

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THE MORNING SHIFT · Brook Won... But Is There Unfinished Business For Marc?! · 17 Aug 2026 podcast

And this is one of those moments, doing something about it, um, making right or wrong.

And the people that have worked on it, you know, they've done they've been courageous, they've been they've shown that grit and determination, you know, it's um

It's it's a huge win for them and it it kind of

Yeah, but w once you get away from that treaty settlement process and into the law courts.

you you take a lot of the politics out of it, right?

So, you know, you and you're not you're not kind of being guided by the political whims of whoever happens to be in power at the time.

It's a it's a legal process and it's quite an interesting way that they've done it.

It's c cost them a lot, you know, not just in resources but in time and energy and

You know, I mean, um this this part of the litigation's been going for some sixteen, seventeen years.

You know, like people

And here we are.

So it's gonna be a wonderful occasion.

Yeah, well the the success of the party Māori, particularly in the last election, was that they were able to pick up what six six um electorate seats, six of the Māori seats.

And and so that creates that that overhang you're talking about because the party because there's there's so many electorate seats and then the party vote also brings with it a certain number of seats.

So so say for instance, and they've probably read the room a little bit here,

if Māori are wanting to you know vote for an electorate seat but put their party vote elsewhere

Um, for instance, you know, obviously you've seen the opportunity party kind of rising through the ranks.

If they can get over the five percent, then that adds um um more seats.

So what you have then is

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