Hone Harwira - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Wed, 20 Jun 2012 05:46:31 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Hone Harwira - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Hone Harawira a moral conservative https://cathnews.co.nz/2012/06/22/hone-harawira-moral-conservative/ Thu, 21 Jun 2012 19:30:19 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=28027 Hone Harawira is known for a lot of things, but not many people realise he is a social and moral conservative. He is against, for example, drug liberalisation and gay marriage and in an interview with Bryce Edwards Hone claimed to be against a society of "choice". This, I think, reveals an authoritarian attitude not uncommon in Read more

Hone Harawira a moral conservative... Read more]]> Hone Harawira is known for a lot of things, but not many people realise he is a social and moral conservative. He is against, for example, drug liberalisation and gay marriage and in an interview with Bryce Edwards Hone claimed to be against a society of "choice". This, I think, reveals an authoritarian attitude not uncommon in Maori males of Hone's generation.

Taking this into account it appears Hone shares more in common with his former colleagues - meaning the Maori Party - than he cares to admit. I read Maori as being a conservative people, if not always politically. This is true of Maori raised in the radical tradition too, the most prominent example being Hone Harawira.

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