Sunday on Donna Awatere-Huata
August 28th, 2005 at 7:53 pm by David FarrarFascinating Sunday programme on Donna Awate-Huata. Key revelations to date:
* Allegation her legal aid application to defend the fraud case, was in itself fraudalent as she did not disclose some assets
* Wi Huata challenged Richard Prebble to a fight, when he challenged Donna over the allegations.
* Education officials were so scared of Wi Huata they would not meet with him.
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August 28th, 2005 at 8:27 pm
a good kicking in the nuts is what wi needs, bloody macho man
Vote:August 28th, 2005 at 8:56 pm
Pretty interesting to see that some prominent Maori describe the Custody of Donna as racist…..well, she is banged up in remand because she insisted that she was innocent and put the system to the expense of a trial.On being found guilty it was evident that she would be held in custody pending sentencing. If she had pleaded guilty from the start she may now be on bail and looking at a home detention.
Vote:August 28th, 2005 at 10:52 pm
It’s not fraud DPF, it’s righting the colonial oppression that locks up a black woman for merely trying to redress the historical injustices done to her people… (http://www.nzpundit.com/archives/2005/08/28/14.08.24)
There would be delicious irony for a fraudster to be done for fraud over the legal aid application!
Vote:August 28th, 2005 at 10:55 pm
I think we already knew that Education officials were scared to meet with Wi Huata.
Though I am sympatico to Pita Sharples et al, I find his comments on issues like this to be bloody absurd. The Maori Party is getting bugger all coverage, not for their many and enormous gaffes, nor for their policy positions and obvious success.
Vote:August 29th, 2005 at 1:54 am
I will never understand backing a person who stole money from reading programes developed in particular for Maori. Perhaps the question needs to be asked if the person was white what would the Maori Party’s reacton be?
Vote:August 29th, 2005 at 7:32 am
I am sure the great bulk of maoridom are appalled at Donna Awatere-Huata, but the media chooses to highlight the comments from a few maori who incredibly find a way to defend her.
Vote:August 29th, 2005 at 9:35 am
It was well known in ACT circles any critisism of Donna could end up in a “Extreme Makeover” from the Pit Bull. I know someone who saw the Pit Bull in full flight. It would have made Jake the Muss proud.
Vote:Well I was given some advice by an old boss of mine, over 30yrs ago…In business never give a Maori access to the cheque book.
August 29th, 2005 at 10:07 am
David Y came across well. Good to see him on TV again. Sounds like it was a pretyy awful time for all involved…
Vote:August 29th, 2005 at 10:33 am
cadmus..in your own words eh..?…just another racist scumbag..eh..?
phil(whoar.co.nz)
Vote:August 29th, 2005 at 10:43 am
I can’t believe it! I had the dis-pleasure of meeting Wi and he really is a horrible man!
As for Donna and the system being racist… Please pull your heads in. She deserves everything she gets as does anyone who breaks the law! She knew what she was doing! They are only playing this card because she got caught!!!
Vote:August 29th, 2005 at 10:44 am
No Phil U …Just advice fom a great guy I worked for many years ago. It was common practice in many busnesses. Well for argument sake 30 yrs ago how many Maoris did you see working in a bank?
Vote:August 29th, 2005 at 10:48 am
Well… Business, I may get fined by the spelling Police
Vote:August 29th, 2005 at 11:31 am
and cadmus..the point you are actually trying to make by telling us that quaint/homely tale..?..can i make the obvious guess..and say that was your way of saying ..’what else could we expect from a maori..?”
qed…cadmus..
phil(whoar.co.nz)
Vote:August 29th, 2005 at 11:46 am
What do you call a Maori in a police car The offender What do you call a Maori in Court The accused Gee phil u I could go on and on You po faced Socialists are sooo easy to get a rise out of
Vote:August 29th, 2005 at 12:00 pm
Yup… being lamely offensive will do it everytime gd. You must be so pleased with yourself. Smug & clever.
Vote:August 29th, 2005 at 12:04 pm
Out of interest… do they have to pay the money back?
Vote:August 29th, 2005 at 12:19 pm
If DAH got more than she would have otherwise- and I am not sure she did- it might be for the following reasons.
Vote:And I believe this maybe why the MSM has also taken extra pleasure in her downfall.
1-DAH, as a Maori woman did not do the PC thing and join a lefty party, she joined ACT and confounded many of the left’s own prejudices.
2- DAH, as an ACT MP, was involved with a party that campaigns heavily on crime. And there is nothing like the whiff of hypocracy, is there?
But I saw the Sunday programme too and it seems DAH got all she deserved.
The Maori Party is simply talking nonsense again, just like it did over the Zimbabwe issue.
August 29th, 2005 at 12:43 pm
This isn’t philu the racist commenting is it ? You know, the one who thought Vanzyl must be “white” because of his beliefs and abused him for it…
Vote:August 29th, 2005 at 1:12 pm
snack..go and read vanzyls words’..and tell me he’s not a reactionary boer…
phil(whoar.co.nz)
Vote:August 29th, 2005 at 4:11 pm
I don’t know if she has been sent to jail for being a Maori but god what a waste of time sending her to prison. Aside from prison not going to achieve anything a jail sentence is way out of proportion for the crimes. The system is a joke and if anyone thinks she got what she deserved they are na
Vote:August 29th, 2005 at 5:00 pm
Phil- “Reactionary Boer”? Is that something like “Cheeky Darkie”? You’ve shot yourself in the foot this time mate.
Vote:August 29th, 2005 at 5:16 pm
Tell us Simon, if not jail, what punishment did she deserve? None? A fine which see could have paid with her ill-gotten gains? maybe a slap with a wet bus ticket? Please enlighten us, and while you are at it, tell us what your idea of punishment would achieve that you think jail wouldn’t.
Vote:August 29th, 2005 at 7:58 pm
I just want to know who all the “hundreds and thousands” of white people are who have done the same.
Where the hell is my slice of the action since we’re going to be whitewashed with the same brush?
Vote:September 30th, 2005 at 4:18 pm
Good job i say!!!
Im a maori, and when people think they should have it any other way just because they’re maori it makes me angry.
she got 2.9mnths prison, she should have got more! Fact is, she stole over $80,000, paid her kids school fees, got an operation, brought a house etc etc..she didnt get a long enough sentence grrr..The cheek of her to even fight it! She stole off kids that need to learn how to read and write..this whole thing makes me angry. People on the benefit can get up to 7 years jail for fraud instantly and i bet none of them hold the signature to cheque books! her case is worse.
Vote:September 30th, 2005 at 4:21 pm
Good job i say!!!
Im a maori, and when people think they should have it any other way just because they’re maori it makes me angry.
she got 2.9mnths prison, she should have got more! Fact is, she stole over $80,000, paid her kids school fees, got an operation, brought a house etc etc..she didnt get a long enough sentence grrr..The cheek of her to even fight it! She stole off kids that need to learn how to read and write..this whole thing makes me angry. People on the benefit can get up to 7 years jail for fraud instantly and i bet none of them hold the signature to cheque books! her case is worse.
Its not an issue of “black or white”, this shit happens all over the world from people of all ethnics. Look at Michael Perry lol just got jailed yesterday for drawing up false papers lol multi – millions lol
Vote:September 30th, 2005 at 4:52 pm
Sam you’re right on the money. What difference does her being Maori have to do with a thing? At the end of the day she stole tax payers money which was to be spent on NZ’s most vunerable.
She has gotten a fair sentence, though I think Wi should not be elligable for Home dentention.
Vote:September 30th, 2005 at 7:34 pm
Donnas family were angry because a much loved member was going to prison. I heard it reported they paid back most of the money before they were sentenced.
My feeling is the court wanted to make an example given the public nature of the trial. Had she been an ex-labour MP or part of the general public, I doubt it would have been anywhere near as bad.
Vote:September 30th, 2005 at 7:51 pm
Sorry Coge the amount offered as reparations was a fraction of the millions the Auditor general said was unaccounted for. The trial only offered representative charges not the full offending that this silly silly woman has committed.
Vote:And crocodile tears aren
September 30th, 2005 at 8:07 pm
The fact that she was an MP at the time surely means that she should have the book thrown at her – this sentence is so light it’s joke.
The reparations made by her family and friends don’t cut it either.
She’s a crook, a fake, a fraud, and she and her family need toget over their upset that she suckered them and then she got caught. She’s a nasty crim all up, that’s it.
Vote:September 30th, 2005 at 10:10 pm
im glad she got jail, it’s not long enough and the reparation is nowhere near enough but at least she didnt get off scot-free
Vote:October 1st, 2005 at 7:21 am
I cannot understand why it is these people are so up in arms and fail to see why Donna has gone to jail. If anyone is found guilty of theft as a servant of the company, say a shop assistant for example, then the law will come down much more than if it were a theft. And in the same way, it is even more a sin for Donna, an elected representative, elected by the people, to steal from the people. The very people that put her in power. Even if she did pay the money back. makes no difference. She a thief. And I don
Vote:October 1st, 2005 at 9:24 am
Who cares if her family felt the need to cause an uproar cause they paid most of the money back, she shouldnt have stole it in the first place!!
She was an MP, this makes ALL MP’S bad now to the public eye. As it is, we couldnt trust MR’s and she goes along and does this.
Pffftt, she didnt get a long enough sentence and she makes me sick!! If we’re going on the “im a maori” path, then i’d feel ashamed to be maori if we could get away with this shit.
Vote:October 1st, 2005 at 9:30 am
the other thing is, if a person like me who has a normal job, stole that amount of money, i’d be sent straight to jail no questions asked. at the end of the day, we’re all the same, you do the crime you pay the time.
of course they’re all upset she went to jail, some of them got a shit load of that money too. school fees, a house etc etc.
She didnt get long enough. people say this justice system fails and in some ways it has because she shouldve gotten up to 7 years. she ripped all of us off, the tax payers.
Vote:October 1st, 2005 at 1:02 pm
Just watch people, the radicals have already started to back her, on release after lets say 9-10 months of served time she will reappear as a Maori Party Candidate. I want to know, with a conviction is she able to be a politician ever again? There is no way that this bitch or the bloody child molesting Graeme Capil should ever again be able to hold ANY PUBLIC OFFICE.
Vote:October 8th, 2005 at 3:27 am
Stole money = got caught = do not pass go = go directly to jail = boo the fuck hoo = Ho The Fuck Hum = end of story.
Vote:October 8th, 2005 at 3:36 am
Stole money = Got caught = do not pass go do not collect the million odd dollars you havent accounted for = go directly to jail = Ho The F**K hum boo the F**k hoo = end of story.
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