Oriini Kaipara

The AI companies are stealing.

Oriini Kaipara from Te Pāti Māori talked about the data sovereignty that is so important to her party and talked about the whakapapa of the story.

And ACT as well said, look, content is property.

So yes, there was a real consensus around action with the AI companies.

Indeed, which was a

fascinating example.

Laurence Dunan and others on stage pushed back on that and said, punk journalism is all well and good, but what about training and years of experience? And Oriini Kaipara spoke very passionately about this.

She said, you spend decades as a journalist building up your credibility and and your reputation for good reporting.

really scandal-free election campaign up until the gang started getting rolling.

And then we started seeing that, you know, Oriini came out and did pretty much a hit on Kieran Leone.

She had to take the fall for that.

Talk about one side taking your own side out.

Yeah.

They've been really entertaining.

And that's where we saw Oriini and Tamaki Makaurau drop Kieran Leone into the fire.

Surely Oriini's going to hold it now.

Makauraua, right? So you've got Kaipara and Leonie.

Yeah, so Oriini, what happened was, you know, we took the gang issue, because it was hot at the time with Oriini and the photo with Hohana, Lyndon and others.

And we said to her, right, do you still stand by that and your regrets? No.

Went to Kieran, what do you think? Oh, no, you shouldn't be campaigning with gangs and all that kind of stuff.

And Oriini just came straight in.

So we didn't know it was going to happen.

Oriini came straight in and said, now, this happened.

On your socials,

And so that's quite politically complex.

I suspect it won't end up being an issue because it was already a tight race, but with Oriini Kaipara in the lead.

And so a number of people will have kind of, you know, if she was already probably half a step behind, this is probably going to be the decisive thing.

But in terms of just, you know, raw content, it would be great if she won.

I'm sorry, I'm not going to say anything else because we don't know the scores.

Christopher Luxon was my first pick.

And then Oriini Kaipara and then Chloe Swarbrick.

the last two because I mean this gang story has continued on for weeks and weeks and so I just thought it would be a safe pick um and because I have to say like I respect different political leaders even if I disagree with what they're doing as a whole I respect them for standing up for their own convictions and I see Oriini doing that and so yeah voted for her and then Chris Luxon I mean he's he's I thought it'd be a safe bet prime minister

The denials, the social media evidence and the extraordinary question of why Labour apparently accepted her account for so long despite evidence pointing the other way so clearly.

And was this a gift to National? Has Oriini Kaipara, by asking the questions others perhaps should have asked earlier, exposed a problem that Labour would rather have kept buried? Oriini Kaipara is a gift for National.

She's exposed the left in a big way.

Plus the election enrolment cut-off.

And it raises an even bigger question.

Why did Labour take so long to deal with it? Is this a government-in-waiting? Is this a government in waiting that knows what it's doing, that knows its organisation and its people, and has the processes in place? It went for far too long.

The party had time to examine the claims, it had time to check the evidence, so why did it appear to take so long to get to grips with a problem that was becoming increasingly difficult to ignore? And why did it take the Māori Party to expose the issue publicly? It took Oriini Kaipara on the Māori affairs debate to actually expose her.

These are supposed to be political allies, potentially partners in a future government in a couple of weeks' time.