Darleen Tana: Money not behind fight to stay in Parliament | Q+A 2024

green party delegates are set to decide  whether or not to invoke the so-called   Walker jumping law to kick former green MP  darling Tanner out of parliament T is vowing   to fight on to try and remain an MP and says  they're considering legal options if their   former party colleagues pull the trigger  here's F A hi oh hi August 2023 Q&A was   on my hickey Island visiting Tamaki Makoto  green candidate Darlene Tanner in campaign [Music] mode come in what a difference a year  makes it is hello how are you oh good good good   to see you see you too yeah so this is your  office um yes this is this is uh your second   your SEC it's my only office it's your only  office where were you before in the building   the greens uh well with the greens yeah this is my  office indepent I'm guessing you're going across   the seea d t back to 2023 again and Green's  co-leader Chloe swri happened to be on our FY   to W hecki to see Tana she's a perfect example  of somebody who demonstrates and practice what   her values of people in Planet are but the  green leader has changed her mind on [Music] that since the inquiry into Tana's family business  affairs centering around migrant employees T   resigned from the greens has become an independent  NP and changed their pronouns the plurality comes   from my T are literally with me all the time so  so that's why we we say that yes yes so I've never   felt alone uh people see me sitting in that house  in the corner on my own they might feel out how   please don't I am all good but dday for darene is  fast approaching it'll determine whether they have   a future in Parliament in the meantime they're  busy sitting in on select committees and has been   drafting a private members bill on Ocean health so  I'm here exactly where I need to be okay and you   say you have got you have got support absolutely  I have support um I have support from green party   members even um but lots of lots of members of  the public who aren't green party members who   stand with me even now who remind me every day  who send me messages every day do they send   you messages every day do they really send you  messages every day yes yes I get a few messages of   people telling me to get lost but 3 to one people  telling me to stay one of those telling T to stay   is artist vasim mother Tava one of the group  of Pacifica greens who recently resigned from   the party and in a sensing darene being within cus  and then pushed out it sort of it was I mean we've   used the term sort of cannibalism it was a way  of seeing someone just being eaten up by their   own party and it was um really unpleasant  it made us all really reflect on a lot of   experiences we'd had in the party that all started  to sort of um feel like they were playing out in a pattern nothing about this situation is nice or  fun or good I've been pretty clear that in fact   it sucks and the best way to have had this  situation end in a way that minimized harm   and hurt for all parties would have been for  Del T to take accountability and to resign one   of the accusations or the way people dismiss you  out there is that you know the business has gone   west you desperately need the money I'm a co-a  girl so I'm always going to stay on on coopa um   money is is is important for survival don't get  me wrong but it's not at all what drives me but   critics T claims have got a lot wrong oh look  it's really quite amusing when you're sitting   there and having ice cream and watching TV with  your kids in your hubby and then you your phone   starts buzzing and you get messages coming through  asking is it true have you separated from your   husband but you haven't well I mean no no um  so we're sitting at home there and I'm looking   across at him and I'm going what the heck have  you been saying now because he's been saying a lot last week darling tner circulated a lengthy  letter that sent to the greens offering reasons   why the party hopping legislation shouldn't  be inv vote they cited a Supreme Court case   involving former MP Donna haasa law professor  Andrew gtis suspects Tana has sought legal   advice the particular judgment that she  points to the judge actually upholds the use   of the party hopp law in that case on the basis  that the MP in question resigned their membership   of the Party by accident here we have an MP who  has deliberately resigned her membership of the   party so the Judgment she points to doesn't  actually really support her position at all   next Sunday 200 greens delegates will decide  whether or not to send a notice to the speaker   to invoke the party hopping act an act they  had vehemently opposed if they don't T remain   in Parliament as an independent this former  Pacifica greens member reckons there will be   people voting to keep Tana in I think Dalene  knows that there are people who got her back   but will Tana mount a legal challenge if the party  hopping Bill isn't vote will you challenge that   we'll have to see darling Tanner could go to court  and try to bring an action two problems with that   is first of all it's going to cost her a lot of  money second problem is I don't think they have   strong legal grounds to win and also there's  this added problem of parliamentary privilege   that may stop the courts even being able to look  at this I really think this is a political battle   that they are going to have to fight the legal  Avenues are very very limited for them back in   the independent MP's windowless attic office  they're upbeat about what could be their last   week in Parliament is it going to be a stressful  week in the lead up to to that decision um no   more stressful than any other week I would say  there's always Mah to be done the greens hope to   have the decision announced on Sunday officially  the first day of spring and New Beginnings for   me this really just boils down to following the  process upholding natural Justice and doing the   best that we can to put Focus back on people in  planet where it belongs and next Sunday Darlene   tner will be in Northland with her people I'll  be surrounded by farno and Hau and I who know   who I am who understand the skills I have and uh  know that well we've just got work to do [Music]