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Speaker 1: Democracy is a delicate and fragile thing, and yesterday's protest

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Speaker 1: was a good example of it. Working people oppose something,

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Speaker 1: they protest peacefully, respectfully, they present a petition, they go home.

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Speaker 1: The bill by the way that they don't like, well,

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Speaker 1: it's not becoming law. You don't have to look far

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Speaker 1: this morning for examples of things going tits up in

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Speaker 1: a big way. And quickly we've basically farewell freedom in

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Speaker 1: Hong Kong, forty seven activist sentence to long term prisons, sentences, overnights,

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Speaker 1: kids in the West Bank being killed. You've got a

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Speaker 1: tyrant and putin lowering the bar for the use of

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Speaker 1: nuclear weapons. Plus you've got US made long range missiles

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Speaker 1: into Russia. But here we have a functioning democracy. Now

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Speaker 1: the hekoy is over at Hwitywayetti wants to go further.

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Speaker 1: He wants a separate Maldi parliament. He wants two systems,

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Speaker 1: he references on his website, the Irish, Welsh and Scottish systems,

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Speaker 1: the latter of which controls its own justice, education, tax systems.

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Speaker 1: How would that work here? Who would fund such a parliament?

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Speaker 1: Who would fall under the Maori parliament? Given seventy five

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Speaker 1: percent of Mary didn't vote for at Arbiti's lot at

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Speaker 1: the last election. How would you build a nation within

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Speaker 1: a nation separated not by borders but ethnicity. Sarah's question.

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Speaker 1: You see, democracy works when we're all in it, and

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Speaker 1: we're all in it equally. It's true that not every

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Speaker 1: group will get the same outcomes from that system, but

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Speaker 1: that's no reason to throw the system away entirely. What

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Speaker 1: it is sure is a call to better use that

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Speaker 1: system to affect change through strong and pragmatic leadership, the

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Speaker 1: likes of which taparty Marti has been known for in

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Speaker 1: the past. Whether you'll get that leadership from Debi and Waititetti, Well,

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Speaker 1: we have to wait and see. For more from early

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