{"id":12843,"date":"2025-02-25T17:46:21","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T04:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=12843"},"modified":"2025-02-25T17:46:21","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T04:46:21","slug":"labour-mp-phil-twyford-alleges-office-targeted-over-his-stance-on-destiny-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=12843","title":{"rendered":"Labour MP Phil Twyford alleges office targeted over his stance on Destiny Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Te Atat\u016b MP Phil Twyford claims his electorate office has been targeted with the dumping of rubbish after he called for Destiny Church to be struck off the charities register.<\/p>\n<p>In a Facebook post on Tuesday afternoon, Twyford shared a picture of the pile of rubbish, dumped outside the door of his Henderson office.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been speaking out in recent days on Destiny&#8217;s violent behaviour at the Te Atatu Peninsular Community Centre, and while I&#8217;ve had loads of positive feedback, clearly someone is not happy by the look of this load of rubbish dumped outside my office door,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>A photo of the rubbish showed mostly household items, clothing, broken glass and empty food containers, in front of the office doors and spilling onto the footpath.<\/p>\n<p>On 15 February, around 30 adults and young children had to be barricaded into a room at the community library, when a group linked to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/541977\/pride-and-rainbow-event-in-auckland-disrupted-by-destiny-church\">Destiny Church tried to drown out a Pride Festival event<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Acting District Commander for Waitemata Inspector Simon Walker told Checkpoint, police received\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/542159\/destiny-church-library-protest-intimidating-and-unacceptable-police\">several complaints of assault<\/a>\u00a0that they were actively investigating and he expected there to be further complaints.<\/p>\n<p>Destiny Church leader Brian Tamaki posted on Facebook about the protest that he was &#8220;proud of my people who are out in the community today, making a stand against the Woke Agenda plaguing our city.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo-captioned photo-captioned-full photo-cntr eight_col \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.rnztools.nz\/rnz\/image\/upload\/s--FONkXG8e--\/ar_16:10,c_fill,f_auto,g_auto,q_auto,w_1050\/v1624976836\/4N0ZOO1_181218-Twyford02_14253?_a=BACCd2AD\" alt=\"Phil Twyford.\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\"><span class=\"caption\">Phil Twyford.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Photo:\u00a0RNZ \/ Rebekah Parsons-King<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Last week\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/political\/542613\/labour-mp-calls-for-destiny-church-to-lose-charity-status\">Twyford wrote to the charities regulator<\/a>\u00a0asking for Destiny Church to be struck off, alleging the church engaged in wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Destiny is in breach of the Charities Act. This organisation should not be receiving a cent of public subsidy through tax deductibility nor the stamp of approval that registration as a charity implies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Twyford&#8217;s office was scouring security footage following Tuesday&#8217;s incident and would be sending any relevant material to police. Meanwhile, a Destiny Church spokesperson rejected any link between the church and the rubbish dumping,\u00a0<i>NZ Herald<\/i>\u00a0reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our people aren&#8217;t like that,&#8221; spokesperson Jenny Marshall told the\u00a0<i>Herald<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>~RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Te Atat\u016b MP Phil Twyford claims his electorate office has been targeted with the dumping of rubbish after he called for Destiny Church to be struck off the charities register. In a Facebook post on Tuesday afternoon, Twyford shared a picture of the pile of rubbish, dumped outside the door of his Henderson office. &#8220;I&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,222,174,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-latest-news","category-nz-news","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12845,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12843\/revisions\/12845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}