Tuku Morgan is looking happy these days, isn’t he? Gone are the ball-dancing boxer-undie look of his days with Aotearoa Television Network, which somewhat belied his earlier incarnation as one of the Tight Five.
Today, he is looking positively beaming. He may have lost his reputed $18,000 a month with the network (and the network itself) but Tuku’s creed and greed to live by—there’s always more where that came from—certainly holds true.
Mr Morgan has screwed yet another deal out of the government. Tainui’s 1992 Man of the Year certainly does it well, and repeatedly. The Waikato Deed of Ownership Settlement is only the most recent of a long list of Tainui “settlements”: though you won’t find that on the Tainui website nor interestingly on Parliament’s own settlement process page which hasn’t been updated since 2006. So Tuku “Take It” Morgan is doing a good job for his people; you will forgive me however if I state that he does nothing for me. The home page of the Tainui site quotes this ancient Maori saying “Maaku anoo e hanga tooku nei whare (I shall fashion my own house)”. These days Tuku might well add, “…with Government money.”
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