David Seymour obliquely referred to the pervasion of a social justice agenda in New Zealand in his first interview of 2025 on The Country, with words to the effect, Government officials (and universities) have gone rogue implementing identity ideology (with private enterprise following suit!)
(Washington Examiner reported on the Goldwater Institute’s investigation: ‘DEI ‘s obscene price tag’ of $1.8 billion dollars with U.S. University students forced to waste 40 million hours fulfilling mandatory DEI initiatives over the past 4 years. Government departments are just as bad, FBI in particular affecting performance outcomes not to forget the LA fire department… but I digress!)
Stats NZ has cleared Whanua Ora of a data breach. One government department investigating another, how cosy.
They also mentioned, disturbingly: ‘The statistician must give effect to the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi. The statistician must engage with Māori on Māori interests in data and maintain capability and capacity to engage with Māori about the collection of data’.
They don’t actually. Where is this referenced in the Treaty?
There is NO reference in their press release to The Data and Statistics Act 2022, an actual law not some DEI dogma dreamed up by activist public servants, and deeply embedded during
Ardern’s government, loyally reported and never questioned, by the media.
We elected Luxon to address this.
Luxon repeatedly says he would prefer to deal wth issues on a case by case basis.
Well I have a case for him to ponder.
Does he agree with the latest findings on the Whanau Ora data breach query that Maori had to be consulted due to obligations under the Treaty? And is giving them $100 food vouchers to bribe them to fill in the census acceptable in a democracy, where everyone else did it for free? ($1 million was put aside for the vouchers out of $5 million for ‘consultation’ and bribery).
I have another question for the PM who strongly opposes the Treaty bill, with his recent comment ‘kill the bill’ putting him on the back foot with thousands of National voters who support clarification of this issue.
(In retrospect) Would Census staff have had your full approval to overlook the Data and statistics Act 2022 which requires everyone to fill out a census form on census day; with individuals or agencies who don’t do this or provide incorrect information being fined $2,000 and $12,000 respectively?
There is no mention of ‘Treaty obligations’ or ‘consultation on Maori interests in data collection’, which has a very discriminatory ring about it.
The Former Key National government and Labour before them did not use bribery to get results for the census. Maori filled it in without a $100 food voucher dangled under their nose. Census workers wore out shoe leather finding Maori living in isolated areas, helping with their forms if necessary, to fulfil their responsibility.
National’s last census in 2013 had a higher participation rate than the 2018’s (James Shaw’s debacle) and the latest 2023 one, where government officials gave permission to workers to bribe Maori with food vouchers to participate.
So when did consulting with Maori on every damn thing become set in stone? Under the tyrannical governance of Jacinda Ardern (and Chris Hipkins).
Will PM Luxon given his case by case preference for dealing with tetchy racial issues, question aspects of this inquiry or take his usual cowardly way out saying he can’t interfere with the outcome of an official inquiry. (of an activist public service agency seeking to protect its own skin).
Prime Minister Luxon is the Houdini of fast get aways when problems loom. Leaving a lonely minister to front, you can’t see him for dust. Actually you can’t even see the dust.
And a thought for the new minister for economic growth. If she and Luxon addressed the enormous taxpayer funded rort of ‘consultation with Maori’ due to mythical ‘Treaty obligations’ there are millions to be saved.
Having a public mandate to do this through the Treaty Principles bill and/or a referendum seems pragmatic.
The PM seems to have forgotten his campaign cry:
NEED NOT RACE
Stats NZ has cleared Whanua Ora of a data breach. One government department investigating another, how cosy.
They also mentioned, disturbingly: ‘The statistician must give effect to the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi. The statistician must engage with Māori on Māori interests in data and maintain capability and capacity to engage with Māori about the collection of data’.
They don’t actually. Where is this referenced in the Treaty?
There is NO reference in their press release to The Data and Statistics Act 2022, an actual law not some DEI dogma dreamed up by activist public servants, and deeply embedded during
Ardern’s government, loyally reported and never questioned, by the media.
We elected Luxon to address this.
Luxon repeatedly says he would prefer to deal wth issues on a case by case basis.
Well I have a case for him to ponder.
Does he agree with the latest findings on the Whanau Ora data breach query that Maori had to be consulted due to obligations under the Treaty? And is giving them $100 food vouchers to bribe them to fill in the census acceptable in a democracy, where everyone else did it for free? ($1 million was put aside for the vouchers out of $5 million for ‘consultation’ and bribery).
I have another question for the PM who strongly opposes the Treaty bill, with his recent comment ‘kill the bill’ putting him on the back foot with thousands of National voters who support clarification of this issue.
(In retrospect) Would Census staff have had your full approval to overlook the Data and statistics Act 2022 which requires everyone to fill out a census form on census day; with individuals or agencies who don’t do this or provide incorrect information being fined $2,000 and $12,000 respectively?
There is no mention of ‘Treaty obligations’ or ‘consultation on Maori interests in data collection’, which has a very discriminatory ring about it.
The Former Key National government and Labour before them did not use bribery to get results for the census. Maori filled it in without a $100 food voucher dangled under their nose. Census workers wore out shoe leather finding Maori living in isolated areas, helping with their forms if necessary, to fulfil their responsibility.
National’s last census in 2013 had a higher participation rate than the 2018’s (James Shaw’s debacle) and the latest 2023 one, where government officials gave permission to workers to bribe Maori with food vouchers to participate.
So when did consulting with Maori on every damn thing become set in stone? Under the tyrannical governance of Jacinda Ardern (and Chris Hipkins).
Will PM Luxon given his case by case preference for dealing with tetchy racial issues, question aspects of this inquiry or take his usual cowardly way out saying he can’t interfere with the outcome of an official inquiry. (of an activist public service agency seeking to protect its own skin).
Prime Minister Luxon is the Houdini of fast get aways when problems loom. Leaving a lonely minister to front, you can’t see him for dust. Actually you can’t even see the dust.
And a thought for the new minister for economic growth. If she and Luxon addressed the enormous taxpayer funded rort of ‘consultation with Maori’ due to mythical ‘Treaty obligations’ there are millions to be saved.
Having a public mandate to do this through the Treaty Principles bill and/or a referendum seems pragmatic.
The PM seems to have forgotten his campaign cry:
NEED NOT RACE
5 comments:
I imagine if the NZ public were given data by the media of how much taxpayer dollars is paid to Māori for every conceivable service/research they carry out, there would be a very different viewpoint. Why this generation should bear the costs of dubious claims not of it’s making, is a step too far.
Who can argue with this statement of fact, fact and more fact? It is absolutely on the money (except there is not much left since it has been given away to Maori grifters). Luxon has passed the poison chalice to his Minister for Economic Growth, growth, growth ... but sadly nothing meaningful by way of method to generate real growth. Dr. Russell Ackoff is renowned for the adage, “Stop doing the wrong things ‘righter’”, so IMHO Luxon ought to take a deep breath and listen to the wisdom of people like Deming, Ackoff et al on leaders doing the “right and wrong” things in the systems they lead.
Peter Drucker said, “There’s a difference between doing things right and doing the right thing.” Doing the right thing is wisdom, and effectiveness. Doing things right is efficiency. The curious thing is the righter you do the wrong thing the wronger you become. If you’re doing the wrong thing and you make a mistake and correct it you become wronger. So, it’s better to do the right thing wrong than the wrong thing right. Almost every major social problem that confronts us today is a consequence of trying to do the wrong things righter”. Take a look at NZ today and how does that premise fit? Maorification, DEI, CRT, endless Treaty claims - can we just cut the crap and get the Country back to the real "Right Track"?
Luxon could make a good start on doing the right thing by amending the 1975 ToW Act to refer to the Littlewood draft or T. E Young's translation as the correct transposition of the Mairi text. That would sort out Article 2 by chucking out any notion of Forests and Fisheries and confirming that it applies to ALL people of New Zealand. Having done that, Luxon should move to reinstate the 2004 Foreshore & Seabed legislation and get rid of the Key Govt nonsensical replacement for that. If Luxon wants to go down in history as one who actually did the right things he might be remembered favourably but WILL HE and WILL HE BE? The tea leaves are saying probably not.
No doubt the newly revised ToW will see the taxpayers of New Zealand wearing the full cost for both Ngai Tahu and the Crown in the current court case which is scheduled to take four weeks to be heard.
Given the Crown's opening gambit that the case has no validity under the ToW and that it is the Government that sets the rules, why Is such a case even being allowed to proceed?
The public is being scammed and this Government won't even have the testicles to demand costs in full from the proponents!
Don't just amend the TOW Act, repeal it all together and get rid of Waitangi Tribunal, for starters. It they must have something in place, call it something else
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