That’s a genuinely complex issue that either most of us don’t get, or don’t want to - or a combination of the two.
And it’s the co-governance aspect of it that kills it.
Co-governance is not the way forward in this country, or indeed any country. The line they are now using is the one where we apparently misunderstand what it is.
So that’s the part I am most looking forward to - what part of us handing over a chunk of the running of our water, or an entity, or the country, don’t we understand?
Earlier they tried the line where they said we already have it, which is true, but that didn’t make it right or any more popular.
There are disciples of the idea, the latest of which is the Human Rights Commissioner Meng Foon, who argues we should be grabbing it with both hands and running with it.
He was responding to a couple of reports that studied colonisation, racism and white supremacy and decided co-governance is the only way forward.
In one of those sweeping statements only a Government operator could muster, Foon said the institutional and interpersonal racism occurring daily in our society represents a clear breach of human and indigenous rights.
Really?
And what's his answer? Constitutional reform and co-governance.
The Waitangi Tribunal, well in excess of 45-years-old now, put out a report into Northland and suggested, among other things, that all crown land in the region be handed back.
I am assuming that’s quite a bit of land.
And that's why, for all the ground we have made, we have still gone backwards.
Because in trying to address past wrongs we have opened ourselves up to the inevitable mission creep.
The tribunal is now so activist it's absurd. The only upside is we never gave them actual power outside of recommendation.
And the likes of the Human Rights Commissioner have drunk so much Kool Aid they’ve ended up blurting out a volume of extremism we can only laugh or sigh at in dismay.
We either move forward or we don’t and Hipkins now has the task of explaining why this level of extremism is; 1) remotely acceptable and, 2) more importantly for him, electorally viable.
Mike Hosking is a New Zealand television and radio broadcaster. He currently hosts The Mike Hosking Breakfast show on NewstalkZB on weekday mornings.
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Part of the trouble rests with the fact that more than 80 books which were written about the history of New Zealand have been removed from bookshelves, museums, libraries, etc, and that the country was supposedly unpopulated before c1350. No mention is made of the Patupaiarehe who arrived some 2000 years ago, to be followed by the Waitaha people 300 years later. Ask the tribalistics (the people who are tribal in their attitude, and go ballistic when they don't get what they want) what happened to them! There are no prizes for guessing.
Kevan
What ‘past wrongs’ are you referring too?
Thank heavens for Journo's like you Mike. The 4th estate is screwed, long may the 5th estate prosper.
This is in essence the unravelling of an attempted coup. Labour & Co. have been plotting this for years now. Small wonder they couldn't achieve basic governmental functionality when there's so much skullduggery to get over the line. When the depth & breadth of their connivance is realized their goals become obvious.
My pick is that this lot will implode before the election. The contemptible Maori caucus will be smarting from being sprung and will, true to type, get very nasty. Chipkins will have no policy alternative but to either cancel or remove this racist nonsense from flagship legislature.
One thing should be obvious to all, failure to do so is headed for mass civil unrest.
I take it that "Anonymous" is referring to my paragraph above? Just one tale for you Anonymous! In 1832, just eight years before the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, 600 Patupaiarehe people, who lived at the confluence of the Wanganui and Ongarue Rivers at Taumarunui, were attacked by tribe of 1000 later arrivals, now collectively known as Maori. The Wanganui River ran red with the blood of the Patupaiarehe. To learn more, Anonymous, read "Forbidden History" by John Dudley Aldworth, and published by Truthful History Publications, one of the more than 80 books that you will not get in a bookshop. I recommend this book.
Kevan
Here is an interesting quote from an article by Mike Butler in 2016
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"Substantial evidence collected in 1988 that showed human occupation of New Zealand pre-dated Maori occupation by thousands of years was hidden in National Archives for 75 years. This includes carbon dating collected by 37 government-funded archaeologists in a one-year survey of stone structures in the Waipoua Forest near Dargaville.
Plumm interviewed one of those archaeologists, Noel Hilliam, who said that the initial dating showed the structures went back to 2225BC, which is about 3150 years before Maori history began in New Zealand."
Why the cover-up? Hilliam said: “The Maori guy in charge of the Waipoua survey closed the operation down the day after the initial dating came through”
When co-governance is discussed, not enough attention is paid to the veto issue - held by one minority only. This means this minority holds final power. Other names can be used ( e.g. prior consent) but the principle is the same.
From 3 Waters, to the Maori Health authority, to the Hauraki Gulf Forum, to the new RMA Bills - to the He Puapua report 's model for the 2 chamber legislative system where Maori would hold final authority.
This issue is very simple to explain and understand - but always avoided by government. And by National
This is why co-governance is just a step towards full governance by 2040 - as many Maori have mentioned.
Kevin your example is graphic. Are these the wrongs Mike Hoskings was referring to?
Mike, please take a look at the looney race-based NZ Curriculum refresh. It's very heavy on 'addressing te-tiriti' and adds traditional spiritualist Maori knowledge as being better than science. Overall it reads like a separatist wet dream pushing Maori activist agenda down the throat of NZ kids, at the expense of real learning.
Some of the advisers to this are true nutters - believing that Maori knew about galaxies, which you can't see with the naked eye, hundreds of years ago because they drew some swirly patterns.
Ridiculous and needs to be stopped.
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