An open letter to the
leaders of National, ACT and NZ First
Dear
Gentlemen,
Hopefully you will read this message. Whatever the Election outcome, voters trust you will find ways to collaborate effectively. Your common goal is to pull New Zealand back from the abyss after Labour’s gross mismanagement and outright deceit which leaves a legacy of shame.
Your respective policies all emphasize that New Zealand faces unprecedented challenges to return to its “first world country” status. This involves massive hurdles and success is far from certain. The country is all but broken with complex issues in all directions.
Notwithstanding
this crisis , New Zealand’s once dynamic economy will recover under your competent management to justify
citizens’ expectations that their hard work will bring material rewards
for their families and that the nation will
regain its reputation as an innovative and competitive force on the global stage.
But, as you
will agree, if the focus of any new
government is economic alone , there is a risk that, to quote Oscar Wilde,
it will know “the price of everything and the value of nothing”. Every economy
– global, national or local – is situated in a social context which must develop and
thrive. The well being and unity of New
Zealand’s society must be restored
after the brutal assault inflicted since
2017 and especially since 2020. Democracy, the very foundation of our society, has been heavily attacked.
Now, a major reset is urgently
needed.
Each of you
wants my support. So, it might be useful
for you to know my specific concerns as a voter. These are summarized below.
1.UNDRIP (The UN
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People)
New Zealand
should withdraw immediately from this instrument for international
co-operation. This is legally possible and
rejoining this arrangement later remains an option
This document is aspirational and not legally binding. Article 46.1 of UNDRIP
specifically states that:
Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted
as implying for any State, people, group or person any right to engage in any
activity or to perform any act contrary to the Charter of the United Nations or
construed as authorizing
or encouraging any action which would dismember or impair, totally or in part,
the territorial integrity or political unity of sovereign and independent
States.
Despite its clear legal status, this document has been misused by
specific politicians for purposes which
should obtain prior consultation with
New Zealand citizens - namely, to
approve or reject a new constitutional
arrangement for the nation.
Withdrawal from UNDRIP resets the issue.
2. Cancellation of the
Draft UNDRIP Action Plan and the 2019 He
Puapua Report
A national Action
Plan to implement UNDRIP’s ideas is entirely the decision of a sovereign state – in NZ’s case, the Labour government took this decision. An Action Plan is not -
in any way - an obligation imposed by the UN. To claim this is totally false .
The 2019 He
Puapua Report, described as aspirational, has been used to help shape Minister Jackson’s Draft UNDRIP Action Plan. It is now clear that the He Puapua Report was
commissioned as a blue print for New
Zealand’s transition to a system of
co-governance - and, thereafter,
to a state where a specific minority, due to the veto power accorded to it, would hold final political authority. New
Zealand would no longer be a democracy –
which is the exact intention as many
politicians have noted.
Such a
major change cannot be executed by any government alone. This would be
overreach of power. Only the citizens can take this decision.
Cancellation would reset this issue.
3. Blanket repeal of all Labour legislation involving co-governance
Since 2020,
considerable legislation has passed (e.g. 3/10 Waters, the Maori Health
Authority, the RMA acts, elements
of Local Government arrangements and,
just a few days ago, Bills for co-governed marine reserves in the South Island (gazetted only as Parliament has already risen). Veto power - aka
prior consent, final review, permanent
monitoring, te mana o te wai clauses -
is embedded in these laws.
All such
legislation - not just the major laws
- should be repealed as they contain radically new governance arrangements which
have not been approval by citizens.
Blanket repeal resets this issue.
4. Referendum on these
issues
This is the
proper legal step to obtain citizen
approval for the profound changes proposed to New
Zealand’s democracy. Like Australia’s The Voice initiative, Labour should have started its plan to transform – and destroy - New Zealand’s
democracy with this step. As Labour’s
deliberate strategy of stealth prevented
this, citizens are confused and even ignorant
about the changes involved.
Though a
3-year debate leading to a referendum is long, this process is vital to obtain
the wishes of all citizens - certainly not to
defer to those of a minority.
A referendum will reset this issue.
5. Termination of the
Waitangi Tribunal
Since 1975,
the mandate of this body has been
to act as a permanent commission to
make recommendations on Mari claims relating to Crown activities which
allegedly breach Treaty of Waitangi
provisions. The Tribunal has handled many claims and overseen the negotiation of numerous settlements.
However,
review of the Tribunal which has morphed into some type of court, is now overdue.
Unlimited funding (rather than full and final settlements) simply cannot be claimed in perpetuity from
the New Zealand tax payers (as some politicians seem to think). 2025 marks 50 years of the Tribunal.
A new government must take steps to terminate this body and thank it for
its work. Any outstanding claims can be settled
on a case by case basis.
Terminating
the Tribunal will close a past era to reset the future for claims.
6. Immediate dismantlement
of the MSM
Thomas
Jefferson said: “The press is impotent when it abandons
itself to falsehood. ”
Labour has
facilitated a media system typical
of a totalitarian state where free
speech is forbidden and indoctrination
is the norm (influencing areas such as the NZ History
curriculum). This undermines New Zealand’s previous long and admirable tradition of a fair and balanced Fourth Estate.
If - as the incoming government - you cannot depend on a high-quality and
unbiased MSM, you
will be sunk from Day 1.
Therefore,
the only satisfactory solution is to
dismantle the MSM and start again. New Zealanders will manage perfectly well until a proper democratic situation is
put into place.
Dismantlement is the only effective reset .
So, my vote will depend on
your loud and unwavering commitment to reset these issues so as to protect New Zealand’s democracy.
Best wishes
for the challenges ahead,
Mary-Louise
Dr Mary-Louise Kearney, a dual NZ and French citizen, was a UN civil servant in senior and director posts for 30 years. This is a personal comment.
16 comments:
Hear, hear!
For the sake of our Nation, someone please make it so. David?
Agree with your Waitangi Tribunal comment.
I sent the following comment to a well-known Stuff podcaster who just can’t get over herself and her self-expressed wonderfulness:
“How is this for a thought? When Australia votes NO (not IF) in its Voice referendum, New Zealand will have a valid case to disestablish its de-facto Voice – the Waitangi Tribunal. Would National/ACT/NZ First be able to resist a grass roots petition? It will come.”
Thank you Dr Kearny. I lie awake at night pondering who to vote for in order to achieve the very same outcomes. Never have I felt so helpless about our country -New Zealand’s future.
Got my support Dr Kearney.
This will identify who is a patriot and who is a globalist.
Very well said Dr Keatney. A few additional points in my mind to add are the removal of maori names from Govt Depts and roadsigns and the gazetting of English as an official language of New Zealand.
My greatest misgiving is that today’s politicians will neither read what you have written nor act upon it.
wonderful summary of what sanity looks like!
please add few more to the list:
a. charter schools or a direct funding model that allows parents to choose any school (even private and pay the difference) irrespective of zoning. at best, retain the right to attend a school in your zone for those who couldn't care less.
b. race-blind policing & justice system. maybe even bring back capital punishment - some of the recent crimes (proven beyond reasonable doubt - like captured on camera, witnessed by many, and guilt proven & accepted) seem deserving of this.
c. focus on energy independence. nuclear-free held some meaning at some point in history, but has run its course. we have to find a way to power all the teslas being brought in due to the subsidies.
EXCELLEENT, Dr Kearney !
You have described the priority areas very clearly.
If New Zealand is to regain it's First World status, these issues must be addressed with urgency.
A more evil concoction of divisive damage has never been experienced in our country. An invading army could not damage us as badly as this lying Red/Green Marxist party, who’s legacy of failures will take years to repair. Why do we tolerate the use of corrupt and clearly biased MSM moderators the opportunity to poison the public’s mind. They have blood on their hands.
ALL of the above thank you Dr Kearney. They are the urgent ones, but there are many more. Could we just excise the last three years of Hansard, preserve them carefully to show coming generations what folly looks like, and set out for rational government? Could we? Sigh.
I expect you won't be pinning your hopes on National/Luxon and NZF/Peters then who, given half a chance and despite feigned protestations, will only be promoting more of the same?
What NZ requires to alter the never ending state of affairs of the last…..YEARS. Is a Govt., For NZ That is the People of N Z NOT JUST the GREENS, REDS, BLUES, ACT. BUT ALL of us Otherwise we just go round and Round. Come on N Z’s. THINK……..The Above is just Pathetic . Vaccine. Covid…Did you know that there was some 80 members of the Upper Medical Elite listed as being exempt….Nice BUT that Number has on an I O A call it was well over 8000. WOW why was that Did they know something. Clearly did but All of our current Politicians are tarred with the same TAR……. DID not have the Gumption to get out and Talk to people SHOCKING. AWAY with them ALL
Democracy isn't the foundation of society: the family is. If you want to save the country, you need to eliminate all forces that are uniting to destroy the family.
- Our eugenic allopathic healthcare system that is responsible for contracepting and aborting the next generation out of existence, epidemic chronic illness, autism and now injecting those who have lost the will to live with the same drugs used to execute death row inmates in the name of mercy. Our population pyramid is upside down and has been for a long time.
Vaccines are an excellent means of reducing the birth rate, which is why eugenicists such as Bill Gates have invested so much in them. Marxist control of the healthcare system is a key pillar of Communism and it has been achieved in this country with anyone opposed to their agenda mandated out of their jobs.
- The education system - after indoctrinating multiple generations, it cannot be reformed, it must be de-funded at all levels and the family must assume the responsibility of educating children as was the case for generations prior to compulsory education. Charter schools may exist, but parents should fund them.
- Progressive taxation. We need a low, flat tax rate as proposed by NZ Loyal. No more should those that have be taxed to support those who will not improve their own situations or bureaucrats who do nothing useful for society but continue to live on the public purse. Politicians shouldn't be able to continue making grand promises using other people's money.
Please cancel the Therapeutic Goods Bill. This denies people like me the right to treat ourselves with alternative therapies. Bill Pharma, anyone?
Just one more 'request' to add.
Abandon totally the ZERO CARBON SCAM.
Investigate using real science, and you will discover what really controls our weather/climate.
The Five in the Hive showed their true W.E.F loyalty, when they refused to negotiate or even talk to the anti-mandate protestors in Wellington.
Think carefully before you vote on 14th Oct.
With regard to dismantlement of the MSM, you could start by having Simon Wilson put in a jail cell for the next three years with nothing to read but books authored by DR Thomas Sowell.
A good start Dr K. But add to that, all the legislation and appointments of the last 6 years should be repealed. And not one of the politicians in Parliament over the last 3 years should be re-elected.
I recommend the Athenian option for all future governments.
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