Te Pāti Māori
Establish an independent Māori health authority
Abolish prisons by 2040
Remove GST from food
Protect Māori food systems and seed sovereignty
Māori-Led Education
Tax — make the wealthy pay their fair share
Māori Housing — affordable homes and Māori land
Mokopuna Māori — end Māori child removal
Mana Motuhake — Treaty constitutional change
Military Neutrality — reset foreign policy
Te Reo Māori — strengthen and normalise the language
Māori Economic Development
Māori Cost of Living — lift incomes and strengthen welfare
Climate & Environment — protect whenua and moana
Freshwater — assert Māori rights over water
Toi Māori — fund and protect Māori arts, culture and creative expression
Māori Disability Support — a whānau-centred system
Justice System Reform: tikanga-based and restorative approaches
Quotes where Te Pāti Māori politicians rubbish, ridicule or dismiss opponents.
→ Christopher Luxon / National-led government (National)
“that he's got no balls and may be a drop-nuts in terms of facing the people”
Waititi questioned whether Prime Minister Luxon would attend Waitangi Day celebrations, using crude language to challenge Luxon's willingness to face Māori communities amid tensions over the Treaty Principles Bill.
→ National-ACT-NZ First coalition government (National)
“We have a pākeha government, who will announce a pākeha budget for a pākeha economy. For far too long we've allowed them to assume absolute sovereignty and governance over us, this needs to stop.”
Waititi spoke ahead of nationwide Budget Day hikoi and strike protests, framing the 2024 Budget as structurally excluding Māori and calling on communities to resist the government's agenda.
→ National-ACT-NZ First coalition government (National)
“We have a government that has insulted and upset at least 20 percent of the population... Sadly, the Prime Minister and his government have exactly confirmed our worst fears. We have to kick back and push back.”
Ngarewa-Packer spoke at a protest rally against the newly formed coalition government, accusing it of being intent on 'disbanding, disestablishing and showing a true disconnect with tangata whenua' across New Zealand.
Quotes from other parties targeting Te Pāti Māori.
→ Te Pāti Māori (Te Pāti Māori)
“Three years, six MPs and the best they could do for Māori is a haka on TikTok.”
Seymour dismissed Te Pāti Māori's parliamentary record at his ACT conference speech, contrasting their haka protest (over the Treaty Principles Bill) with substantive legislative achievement.
→ Tākuta Ferris (Te Pāti Māori MP) (Te Pāti Māori)
“Yes, I am positive. Unlike you, you dickhead.”
Peters made the remark during Question Time in Parliament on 25 June 2025 while answering questions about coral reef protection from Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson. He claimed Ferris was interrupting him. When asked to apologise he said: 'On the basis that when I was trying to get my thoughts together on the answer to Marama Davidson's questions, he was interrupting me. I apologise for calling him what I said he was.' He also asked the House: 'Is it bad language?'
→ Te Pāti Māori / Rawiri Waititi (Te Pāti Māori)
“When you declare war on us, you get a reply, that's coming next year, so you have a good Christmas, 'cos you'll need it sunshine, and your big loud mouth not going to help you longer.”
Peters used his adjournment debate speech in Parliament — the last sitting day of 2024 — to spend roughly half of his 12-minute slot attacking Te Pāti Māori. The remark was delivered as a direct personal warning to the party ahead of 2025. Te Pāti Māori co-leader Rawiri Waititi responded by breaking into song.
→ Te Pāti Māori / Rawiri Waititi (Te Pāti Māori)
“I've seen that sort of philosophy before. I saw it in Nazi Germany.”
Peters made this remark in his State of the Nation speech in Palmerston North and doubled down on Morning Report the next day. He was comparing co-governance race-based theory — specifically a statement by Māori Party co-leader Rawiri Waititi about Māori DNA — to Nazi Germany racial ideology. He added: 'The moment you argue that someone has got superior DNA to someone else you're leading to awful racial consequences' and 'I'm not backing down one iota.'