Activist may stand in Te Tai Hauauru

Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party may be represented by Maori activist Dun Mihaka in Te Tai Hauauru by-election

11 June 2004
Maori activist Dun Mihaka, best known for baring his buttocks to the Queen, may stand in the Te Tai Hauauru by-election.

The Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party is to decide this weekend whether Mr Mihaka will take on front runner Tariana Turia.

The party says Dun Mihaka has excellent credentials to represent his people.

Mihaka unsuccessfully stood in Te Tai Tokerau in 1999.

He won a $5000 defamation case against New Truth newspaper in 2001, after it suggested he regularly bared his buttocks.

In 2000 he appealed a conviction for a Waitangi Day assault, saying it was double punishment as he had already made amends on the marae.

His infamous whakapohane, or buttock-baring, was during the 1983 Royal Tour.

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