Yet, within a short passage of time beyond the boundaries of the Royal Palace, utterances by self-assessed “influencers”, repeatedly referred to the new Queen as, Sovereign and Monarch.
What means Sovereign and what is Monarch?
According to one definition on Wikipedia:
Sovereignty is a
political concept that refers to a dominant power or supreme authority. In a
monarchy, supreme power resides in the sovereign, such as a king or queen. In
modern democracies, sovereign power rests with the people and is exercised through
representative bodies such as Congress or Parliament.
Question posed must be, do these “influencers” think
their view should be the path the new Queen of Tainui treads?
Given the historical animosity among Māori tribes which raided,
possibly cannibalised, raped and plundered each other (Ngāpuhi v Ngāti Porou in
particular), a supreme ruler of all Māori, may be a long bow to draw.
If these “influencers” are so delusional (or mad), that they
expect the Rest of New Zealand, to be subservient to the Head of a Māori
tribe, that would be to break the bow before the shaft was released.
Imagine however, if I had been on the short list to be the
next King?
I’m not familiar with the House Rules applied by Tainui, but
I’m well aware that Tainui know my pedigree (as told by Billy T James on TV
early 1990s when he referred to me as “That Red Squad Cop now a MP! He’s, my cousin.”)
I have direct lineage to Te Whero Whero via my French
Huguenot Gt Gt Grandfather who rocked up in Kawhia 1832 and on 19 January 1835
married Princess Kenehuru, daughter of Chief Te Tuhi-O-Terangi of Ngai Mahuta
and niece of Te Whero Whero.
Reverting to the question of Sovereignty & Monarch.
The New Zealand Parliament is, in my assessment, Sovereign
and the Governor General as part of the Executive, is the stand-in for the
Monarch, currently King Charles.
Going forward under this enshrined umbrella of Governance,
might wear with some of the “woke” brigade which seems to have been entrenched
in bureaucracies during the rain of Jacinda. But population predictions suggest that the
growing core of New Zealand populace, will not be amenable to any deviation
from the regime New Zealand currently embraces.
In New Zealand, the base of the white population are descendants
of, “Downstairs” emigrants from Great Britain; a category of people who paid
their own passage seeking new opportunities but knowing full well that their
survival depended on continued subservience to the ruling elite (at the time
very much in the hands of disciples of Christianity).
In my assessment, this frame of mind has endured to this
day. Result? Fighting for legal rights, standing fast,
putting principle ahead of self-preservation?
A rare quality – outside of Eden Park, where even that fire now dims.
Conversely, the Australian white base was largely
transported convicts who held an entirely different attitude towards their
former Lords and Masters. From day one
in the new land, this category of immigrant fought for freedom, equality before
the law and most defiantly, a society where mates stood together. And a white only immigration policy. (1)(2)(3)
White Australia Policy?
On 23 December 1901 the
Immigration Restriction Act came into law. It had been among the first pieces
of legislation introduced to the newly formed federal parliament.
The legislation was
specifically designed to limit non-British migration to Australia. It
represented the formal establishment of the White Australia policy.
Attorney-General Alfred
Deakin, 12 September 1901:
That end, put in plain and
unequivocal terms … means the prohibition of all alien-coloured immigration,
and more, it means at the earliest time, by reasonable and just means, the
deportation or reduction of the number of aliens now in our midst. The two
things go hand in hand, and are the necessary complement of a single policy –
the policy of securing a ‘white Australia’. (4)
During World II Prime Minister John Curtin reinforced the
policy, saying, "This country shall remain forever the home of the
descendants of those people who came here in peace in order to establish in the
South Seas an outpost of the British race. (5)
Demographic impact
The White Australia policy had an immediate impact, rapidly
changing demographics. By 1947 only 2.7 per cent of the whole population was
born outside of Australia, Ireland or the United Kingdom. The effect was most
obvious on the Asian population. Though only 1.25 per cent of the Australian
population in 1901, it had shrunk to around 0.21 per cent by the late 1940s.
It wasn’t until 1966 that the dismantling of the White
Aussie policy was begun under the Holt government. In 1975 The Whitlam
government completely eliminated it in the 1970s with the introduction of
policies like the Racial Discrimination Act.
Current Australian Demographics
In 2021 a census stat estimate apropos the number of
ancestry responses within each standardised group as a proportion of the total
population was as follows:
European
57.2% (i.e. 46% North West Europe and 11.2% South East Europe).
Oceania 22.7%
Asia
17.4%
North
African & Middle East Others 2.7%
The legacy of the White Aussie Policy, in a country
of 27 million, has been to bequeath the nation a large white breeding base with
a not too latent (albeit now unfashionable) racially cognisant attitude.
Current New Zealand Demographics. (2018 estimate.)
European
64.1%,
Māori 16.5%,
Chinese 4.9%,
Indian 4.7%,
Samoan 3.9%,
Tongan 1.8%,
Cook Islands 1.7%,
Filipino 1.5%,
Other 0.9%
With a population of 5 million (same as Melbourne), and the
current White New Zealander birth rate dropping as fast as the exodus from the Land
of the Long Black Cloud, of White Kiwis in the age bracket of
“productivity”, any objective forecast of population ratios, indicates a
rapidly dropping white base – a trend exacerbated by many of the current white population,
being geriatrics, on the home run.
Concomitantly, the expanding inward flow of Indian
immigrants and Chinese capital, will dramatically alter the demographics within
the next 25 years.
Outcome?
For they who seek Civil War, sage advice I proffer is: Be
Careful for What you Wish.
Continued attempts to elevate Māori above the Rest of New
Zealand by artificial means i.e. legislation rather than self-determination,
will be to take-on an unstoppable expanding ethic base of Asian and Indian
pedigree immigrants (and subsequent New Zealand born), which, by my
observations, has little empathy for Māori.
Such attempts at artificial elevation (something I consider
to be a demeaning insult to the many part- Māori who have succeeded in their
own right), will be met with determined resistance: (a) via yet to be formed ethnically
base political parties holding the balance of power and (b) capital
investment taking majority control of commercial enterprise and private
property.
As Euripides
cautioned: Those whom the gods wish
to destroy they first make mad.
Addendum:
Meurant and Kenehuru were at the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi – where Meurant was a translator. On their way through Auckland, Ngāti Whatua gifted Kenehuru 20 acres of land in recognition of her royal status. Later when that land title was converted to European title, 10 acres was “appropriated” by the State. Kenehuru as a widow, protested but it wasn’t until 1993 as the privatisation process impacted on NZ Rail (to quantify its assets) that it acknowledged that 10 acres at the intersection of Remuera Rd and Broadway in Newmarket, on its books, was in the land “appropriated” from my Gt Gt Grandmother. Note: Getting to the bottom of a TOW land claim I assisted lodging on behalf descendants, when I was an MP, has been as evasive as slippery eel.
Ross Meurant BA MPP Former Police
Inspector, Member of Parliament & Honorary Consul.
(1) Blainey, Geoff, The Tyranny of Distance, Sun Books, 1977.
(2) Clark, Manning, A Short History of Australia, Tudor Publishers, 1969
(3) Ward, Russel, The Australian Legend, Oxford Uni Pres, 1977
(4) https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/white-australia-policy
(5) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Australia_policy
7 comments:
All "Māori" are "part" Māori.
Or "part" pakeha.
Or even more accurately predominantly non Maori.
OK, I give in. Really, there is no such thing as Māori.
Te Whero Whero,, that delightful Chiefly dude that after a three-month siege and starving the Te Ati Awa into submission near new Plymouth, he got a tired arm one day after 'braining' 150 of them with his greenstone mere. Just as well we aren't all answerable for the sins of our fathers, unless of course your forebears were colonists, and then no sins are ever forgiven, even those that are manufactured.
But isn't the Maori King's death and the succession all a bit overblown? After all, the Kingitanga movement was an act of sedition, so why are the likes of our PM and MSM according this all such great reverence, or am I missing something?
And then we have the likes of TPM, Greens, and now Labour, all acknowledging that Maori didn’t cede sovereignty on the flimsiest of evidence and conveniently overlooking that tino rangatiratanga was granted to all the people of New Zealand. We have our Church leaders now all squawking against clarifying the most basic of our rights and sovereignty, and the likes of Prof. MacCulloch, calling out Labour’s proposed new tax policies as also challenging the very foundation of our sovereignty.
So, it appears to me, He Puapua is very much alive, well, and growing daily. And while you might prove to be be correct Ross in the longer run, I do have my doubts in the shorter term that NZ will be saved.
Missing something? - yes sedition - sadly I think that was removed as an offence in New Zealand - Was it Labour that did not like it ...??
They did however like He Puapua but then they have no regard for the future of theirs or anyone else's children.
Work on He Puapua has ostensibly been stopped but in practice it is going full steam ahead - whatever happened to "No means No!"?
NZ situation not as bad as UK or Italy (and southern europe)
16 Sept 2024
More than 23,000 people have crossed the Channel this year.
Amnesty International UK said the latest incident was "yet another appalling and avoidable tragedy". Eight people have died overnight while trying to cross the Channel from France to England, French police say.
Enver Solomon, CEO of the Refugee Council, said the deaths were not "inevitable" and a comprehensive approach to reduce crossings was needed.
"Enforcement alone is not the solution," he said, adding that there needed to be improved access to safe asylum routes.
14 Sept 2024
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2ln150287yo
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has said he is “interested” in learning about Italy’s scheme to send migrants rescued at sea to Albania to process their asylum claims, ahead of his first official visit to Rome.
The British leader is set to meet Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Monday.
Top of the agenda will be migration and how the UK can learn from Italy - the European Union member receiving the highest number of migrant arrivals, but which has recently seen a dramatic fall.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cnvdy6ze761o
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