Angeline Greensill to talk to youth about importance of enrolling and being represented

Angeline Greensill, candidate for the Mana Party in Hauraki-Waikato and party spokesperson for the environment, will be talking to young workers in Huntly tomorrow about the importance of voting. “Regional areas like Huntly contain large numbers of youth who are exposed to issues like joblessness and insecure work”, she said, “and these youth and their communities would greatly benefit from our policies such as reintroducing full employment, moving the minimum wage to $15 per hour, and also indexing the minimum wage at two thirds of the average wage”. Mana also rejects any attempts by other politicians to reintroduce discriminatory youth wages.

The Hauraki-Waikato electorate has one of the most active Mana Party rangatahi branches in the country. However, we have thousands of people under the age of 29 in the electorate who are not enrolled to vote. Angeline says we have to change this through a conscious effort, “Mana supports a review of the way education is delivered to get young Maori people more prepared for the world, including with regard to a stronger understanding of political processes”.

Greensill says that young Maori have the opportunity to gain strong representation as voters in the Hauraki-Waikato electorate. She points out that her competitor for the seat – Labour’s Nanaia Mahuta – will be getting into government through party votes for Labour. This is why the strongest possible representation for young Maori in Hauraki-Waikato can be achieved through casting a candidate vote for Angeline Greensill. If Angeline wins the race in the electorate both of them will be going to parliament.

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