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The proceeds from the sale of ASB created an endowment (large sum of money) administered by Foundation North. The money represented the residual value of depositors’ former ownership of ASB. In that very real sense, Foundation North’s endowment, which now amounts to just under NZ$ 2 billion, is community money.
Foundation North doles out the endowment, including income earned from it, for all sorts of supposedly worthy causes.
Foundation North operated credibly enough until mid-2021. It was then that the Labour Government, through then Minister of Finance Grant Robertson, Treatified and other wise Wokefied Foundation North. Slanted Grant achieved this by revising Foundation North’s trust deed. In particular, Blobertson injected into the Trust Deed the following essential “skills” required in order to qualify as a Trustee of Foundation North:
Foundation North doles out the endowment, including income earned from it, for all sorts of supposedly worthy causes.
Foundation North operated credibly enough until mid-2021. It was then that the Labour Government, through then Minister of Finance Grant Robertson, Treatified and other wise Wokefied Foundation North. Slanted Grant achieved this by revising Foundation North’s trust deed. In particular, Blobertson injected into the Trust Deed the following essential “skills” required in order to qualify as a Trustee of Foundation North:
“Sufficient diversity among Trustees (for example, in relation to background, skillset, demographics, and gender) in order to ensure that the communities in the Specified Area [Auckland and Northland] and its needs are properly represented”
“a minimum of Three Trustees who have an understanding of Te Tiriti, Te Ao Maori, tikanga Maori, Te Reo Maori and mātauranga Maori”
Under the revised Trust Deed, the existing Trustees provide recommendations to the Minister of Finance on potential new Trustees regarded as having the requisite Diversity/Maori “skills”. There is a mandatory requirement to follow the “Recruitment Process”, which the Trust Deed defines as:
“the process subscribed to between the Trustees and the Department of Internal Affairs under which the Trustees identify potential new trustees to be recommended to the Minister of Finance to ensure the Board has the right mix of skills and experience”.
Predictably, a copy of the actual “Recruitment Process” is not publicly available. But, according to Foundation North’s current Background material for Trustee candidates, some “communities” are more equal than others.
In particular, Foundation North's express priority communities include:
• Māori
• Pacific
• Former refugees
• New migrants
• Rainbow Community
• People with disabilities
Down-and-out white skinned people are obviously not a “priority community” eligible for Foundation North funding.
As part of Woke’s Hijack of Foundation North, the revised 2021 Trust Deed also imbedded cunning finesses designed to stymie any future Government wanting to de-Tiriti/DiversiDy Foundation North.
First, the incumbent Trustees and unelected Internal Affairs bureaucrats control the candidates whom the Minister of Finance gets to consider for appointment as Foundation North Trustees. An elected Government therefore cannot unilaterally appoint anyone as a Trustee.
Secondly, only the incumbent Foundation North Trustees can amend the Trust Deed, with the Minister of Finance required to approve, but unable to initiate, any amendment.
In the absence of remediating legislation to bring Foundation North within reasonable political control, the Foundation North has therefore, with the connivance of the most recent Labour Government, insulated itself from any attempt to bring merit and impartiality to bear on Foundation North’s activities.
So, who did Grant Robertson appoint as Foundation North Trustees in the immediate wake of the 2021 Trust Deed amendments?…well, these luminaries:
- Sara-Jane Elika: Whose “key strengths”, according to the bio on Foundation North’s website, include “cultural intelligence”.
- Tevita Funaki: Who, according to FN’s website, was the “National Pasifika Liaison Advisor for Massey University”. Say no more.
- Nurain Janah: According to her very own self-styled website (and writing, in typical narcissistic fashion, in the third person), “Nurain also founded Authenticity Aotearoa, a charity empowering women of colour”.
- Ling Ling Liang: Deputy Chair of the International Women’s Association of NZ. FN’s website: “Her interests extend to indigenous peoples, particularly exploring the connections between Māori and the indigenous people of her homeland, Taiwan. Ling Ling is committed to learning Te Reo Māori and supports the local Ō Wairoa Marae in organising Matariki celebrations.”
- Hana Maihi: FN’s website: “As an indigenous researcher, entrepreneur, artist, design thinker, environmentalist and cultural facilitator she is committed to transformative justice alongside nurturing relationships, cultural identity and connection.”
- Stephen Park: FN’s website: “He helped establish the Rule Foundation, a charity supporting rainbow communities and takatāpui [that’s the newfangled Maori language descriptor for queer people] to flourish.”
- Stephen Titter: FN’s website: “Stephen’s families come from Taranaki and the Bay of Plenty, all ultimately descended from northern Europe.” (How many families can a man have? Note the Woke obsession with ancestry.)
Pakeha Projections
It’s tempting to conclude that The Pakeha Project must be an elaborate spoof on Wokery. But it’s not. This bipolar self-loathing/virtue projecting cult is operated by a New Zealand company named Unity House Limited. The company’s directors and shareholders are a bizarre duo, Pakeha Project “Co-Founders” Rebecca Sinclair (Research Fellow at – naturally – Massey University) and Louise Marra (PP Website: “Louise describes herself as a braided river, coming from both Ngāi Tūhoe and Ngati Pākehā whakapapa”).
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Words matter, and reveal. For those delicate souls who couldn’t stomach exposure to The Pakeha Project’s sickening website, here’s some of the more nauseating content:
What is the work that we Pākehā need to do ourselves in the ongoing journey of decolonisation and honouring Te Tiriti o Waitangi?
The Pākehā Project is committed to revealing and questioning the algorithms of whiteness that discipline our world.
We help people and organisations who are committed to moving towards an ethic of restoration in Aotearoa. We are weavers, healers, and paradigm shifters, helping Pākehā and other tangata Tiriti to find their own place to stand, be open to other ways of knowing, doing, and being, and come into right relationship with tangata whenua for a flourishing Aotearoa.
Our expert facilitators and coaches work with organisations and individuals, using trauma-informed practice and experiential methods to help tangata Tiriti navigate the emotional territory that is necessary for dealing with uncomfortable material…
To move outside habitual colonial patterns of thinking, we need to disrupt our binary operating system. We practise moving from either/or to both/and.
Understanding how our nervous systems work is key to cultural transformation…This understanding is especially important in the trauma fields of colonisation, racism, and oppression.
If we want to truly unpick white supremacy, we need to develop a new skillset for doing so. Supremacy will not be overcome by more supremacy. The logic of whiteness shores up whiteness further.
According to The Pakeha Project’s website, “Our flagship programme is the Pākehā Project Leadership Journey, developed and incubated in partnership with Leadership New Zealand”. And Leadership New Zealand’s “Principal Partner” is…Foundation North. Aotearoa’s Race Hustle Grift is insidiously incestuous.
Predictably, Radio New Zealand has covered The Pakeha Project in fawning fashion:
The Pākehā Project: A tangata Tiriti-led push for tino rangatiratanga | RNZ News
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Who pays for The Pakeha Project’s piffle? Central and Local Government agencies, that’s who.
Somewhere, we’re over the Rainbow
And The Pakeha Project is of course only one of a myriad of ideologically-driven outfits funded by Foundation North. In the last year, Foundation North has funded “Rainbow Youth” with $200,000 of its public money. Rainbow Youth of course trumpets the Treaty of Waitangi as a profound source of comfort and support for LGBTQI+ young people… “As the founding document, we [Rainbow Youth] recognise the importance of honouring Te Tiriti, and are incorporating this into our kaupapa, our work and our organisation”.
Asian Artist Altruism
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Foundation North’s chairperson is Michelle Tsui. The fact that Michelle is an Asian woman probably explains why the random recipients of Foundation North’s money include the Asian Artists’ Fund, which gets over half a million dollars a year. Can’t Asian artists perform without public funding?
The Charities Lottery
Rainbow Youth is a registered charity. The Pakeha Project isn’t. Inexplicably, Foundation North is not itself registered as a charity but its wholly owned subsidiary company, Foundation North Grants Limited, is a registered charity.
Under Foundation North Grants Limited’s constitution, “No distribution may be made to [Foundation North] unless it is a charity registered under the Charities Act 2005”. Is Foundation North Grants Limited, in breach of its constitution, paying distributions to Foundation North? We can’t find out, because neither Foundation North nor Foundation North Grants Limited is required to make their financial affairs public.
In addition, charitable trusts such as Foundation North are not subject to the Official Information Act. This means that no-one can find out anything about these strange beasts that they don’t themselves choose to reveal.
Foundation North therefore operates in the dark. But it’s a cozy darkness, certainly for those on the inside. Because Foundation North operates as much for people who “work” within its cushy confines as for the recipients of their Woke-warped largesse. People like Te Tiriti Tuhaka Milne:
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Provided New Zealand remains a functioning Parliamentary democracy, what has changed can be changed back. The current Government must legislate to bring the current profligate disbursement of New Zealand’s public purse back under proper democratic political control.
John McLean is a citizen typist and enthusiastic amateur who blogs at John's Substack where this article was sourced.
6 comments:
Where might we find a published and audited set of accounts for this outfit?
Who wants to be referred to as a Pakeha? Not me. Second question: Is Mr Tukaha Milne one-eyed? Probably, it looks that way in the photo.
I read up on the 'Pakeha Project' and it drips colonialist guilt that they can make moeny out of.....it is a scam, they know it we know it but the know it but still like the dollars.....the more guilt they curate the more cash they create.
If I was still a secondary school pupil I would be terrified of being presented with a sample of one of these obscure texts and asked to explain it. Even now, even after several readings,most have me foxed. Presumably some trace maori gain a significant grasp of a curious branch English otherwise they could never dream up this abstract twaddle?
Does the msm address any of this nonsense? Ironically the savings bank would have owed little or none of its accumulated wealth to net maori "savers". And incidentally, what is the significance of the giant neck ornaments worn horizontally?
As Donald Trump would say - "Time to drain the swamp!"
Can't believe I just read that
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