We acknowledge the celestial entities
We acknowledge our guiding stars
The coursing of the stars is invoked
Inspiring the path we follow through our world
In this endeavour, heaven and earth come together
Let it be
That's the karakia with which the Chief Executive of Parliamentary Services and the Clerk of the House end their statement of strategy 2022-2025. It outlines the programme for Te Ao Maori and tikanga within the work they and their officials do. It begins with:
The stars that guide us
Te Rautaki Ao Māori 2022 – 2025
Te Ao Māori Strategy 2022 – 2025
It is signed by the Chief Executive, Parliamentary Services and the Clerk of the House of Representatives. It contains commitments such that it would be naïve to think any Minister or MP, or the Speaker of the House can receive advice unaffected by the ideology contained within it. I’ve given a link to the document. Have a look and see for yourself.
This year is the third year of the envisaged indoctrination and infiltration of the Parliamentary workforce.
By way of example, it includes (with bolding added by me):
Te ao Māori is described and enabled by mātauranga Māori (traditional Māori knowledge), tikanga Māori (customary practices), te reo Māori, and traditional concepts and principles, including mana, tapu, whakapapa, manaakitanga, kaitiakitanga.
Te ao Māori is acknowledged, affirmed and guaranteed by te Tiriti o Waitangi. We recognise this with our commitment to the principles of partnership, participation, and protection….
Like the celestial bodies that inspired its name, this strategy will guide our actions and interactions with respect to te ao Māori as we navigate our work.
Guiding principles include:
COMMITTMENT [Sic — sloppy proof-reading as well!]
We make a commitment and a promise to one another to ensure te ao Māori is part of who we are and what we do. We are committed to this mahi, acknowledging its importance to our people, mahi, Parliament, and Aotearoa.
TE TIRITI O WAITANGI
We are committed to the principles of partnership, protection, and participation which are incorporated into this strategy.
The section on employment goals, commencing page 18 is plainly racist. For example, but read it all,
* Our recruitment practices, position descriptions, and people’s expectations reflect our commitment to te ao Māori
* We offer Māori candidates the opportunity to include whānau during the recruitment process
Regarding tikanga, on page 20, the commitment is that “Our recruitment practices acknowledge tikanga Māori,” “Our everyday actions and interactions are more informed by tikanga and storytelling.”
Like a revivalist religious movement, it ends with the karakia I started with and now repeat.
We acknowledge the celestial entities
We acknowledge our guiding stars
The coursing of the stars is invoked
Inspiring the path we follow through our world
In this endeavour, heaven and earth come together
Let it be
There we have it. Embedded within the heart of our democracy is a force which, ultimately, is destructive of it. Nobody voted for this. I was not aware of it until this morning, and I imagine very few people were.
You will see that part of the mission of Parliamentary Services and the Clerk of the House, and of those under them is to engage with other public sector agencies who will look to them as a partner and a leader in Te Ao Maori. This mission started in 2022. Undoubtedly it will now be well advanced and will be part of the explanation for the actions of outfits like the Real Estate Agents Authority, other quangos and government departments.
It is subversive of the whole democratic process, because Te Ao Māori is not democratic. It is tribal where chiefs call the shots. Willie Jackson’s new sort of democracy has been insinuated into the Parliamentary process.
Gary Judd KC is a King's Counsel, former Chairman of ASB and Ports of Auckland and former member APEC Business Advisory Council. Gary blogs at Gary Judd KC Substack where this article was sourced.
20 comments:
What a load of heifer dust
The karakia etc has not been curtailed by our Parliament or Ministeries as is widely evident , however it must have been approved by the Governor General and if not approved, certainly Not disapproved .
I totally support the removal of all ethnicity in everything pertaining to the New Zealand Government.
The system is rotten to the CORE. Very very depressing
I think many of us were aware of this. We might not understand the legislative nature of "Maorification" but we did understand that there was no other explanation for our parliamentary parties not to push back on all this. No, we are not racist, we simply want a democratic process which is definitely not forthcoming. Some people have called it a "coup by stealth". It is simply unbelievable that so many politicians have been captured by this. We voted for these people. Chris Luxon stating he did not believe in the governments right to govern or that we didn't have equal rights might have given some a glimmer of our present situation. As I have said before, people like Ardern and Luxon can simply swan off overseas when all goes pear-shaped.
Like you, Gary, I have only just come across this outrageous document.
The full text is packed with racist, antidemocratic stone age nonsense.
The full text can be read here:- https://www.parliament.nz/media/9285/te-ao-ma-ori-strategy-2022-2025.pdf
Are the indoctrinate, biassed d staff embraced by this twaddle involved in processing and summarising submissions to Select Committees?
This also links up with the recent requirements from the Pharmacy Council that all pharmacists must undertake so-called "cultural safety" training.
In looking on the Council website one can see very similar waffly, tribal fantasy words. Almost a copy of the one above.
Gary, in your submission to the Treaty Principles Bill select committee, you said that sovereignty belongs to the people (at 2:20): “In our free and democratic society, ultimate power rests with the people. They exercise their power by electing you to represent them. That is why Parliament is sovereign.”
Garry Judd KC Evidence: Treaty Principles Bill
But it is mistaken to say that Parliament is sovereign because we have elected particular Members of Parliament. That is not a decision to vest our sovereignty in Parliament, but to choose who will represent us. It makes no difference to the sovereignty of Parliamentary who we vote for, or if we choose not to vote.
You have taken the choice off us to not vest our sovereign power in Parliament, and that is no choice at all.
Instead, by the Constitution Act 1986, the New Zealand Parliament awarded itself our sovereign power by making the Crown in Parliament subject to “the advice and consent of the Executive Council”. The Governor-General who represents the Crown has not subsequently done otherwise. The Act is an expedience by politicians to award themselves our sovereign power without seeking agreement from the people.
You now complain that the Maoris are taking sovereign power for themselves without democratic process. How is it that Parliament is not just the other side of the same coin?
This is merely a competition between Parliament and the Maoris for sovereign power when in fact sovereignty belongs to We the people.
Yes Barrie, the secret coup in 1986 needs revisiting.
Extract from A very kiwi coup – by Ian Wishart
The public awoke the morning after the 1986 Constitution Act, not realizing New Zealand’s parliament had just seized absolute power and enthroned itself as “the Crown” itself by seizing all the power and authority from Westminster and enthroning a “Queen of New Zealand”.
There was only one problem with this cunning plan: it was, and remains to this day, technically illegal and unconstitutional. It never went to a public vote, and ever since 1986, ruling politicians have done whatever they liked.
So, supreme power is no longer held by the New Zealand people. We are still “subjects”, but now of a “parliamentary monarchy” in Wellington rather than Charles III in London.
While we are at it, I will add what Philip Joseph has to say in his Constitutional and Administrative Law in New Zealand, 3rd ed.
“13.6.1 Severing the branch
“The Constitution Act 1986 invites two analogies. First, an axeman, perched on the branch of a tree, severs the limb at the trunk. Does the axeman fall to the ground with the branch? Or can he defy gravity and remain suspended, though he has lost his means of support? The Constitution Act 1986 revoked New Zealand’s sources of legislative power (namely the New Zealand Constitution Act 1852 (UK), the Statute of Westminster 1931 (UK) and the New Zealand Constitution (Amendment) Act 1947 (UK)), 109 yet declared: “The Parliament of New Zealand continues to have full power to make laws.” Like the axeman who loses his only means of support, do Parliament’s power likewise fall to the ground? Can there exist, in law, a power without a source? To declare the continuance of powers does not constitute or create them. Such declaration premises their existence and, perforce, their source. Perhaps, on this view, the Constitution Act 1986 is New Zealand’s ultimate proclamation of autochthony? Though itself a product of New Zealand’s legislative autonomy gifted by the Westminster Parliament, it repudiated the source of that autonomy and denied the gift was ever made. Parliament’s legislative powers may now have factual rather than legal force.”
I take that to mean the Parliament are sovereign as a matter of fact; suck it up.
Of course, witness the TP Bill and how that was mishandled - with the full blessing of our bl00dy PM!
How cute. I love twinkle twinkle little star. Is the verse above the newly discovered second verse? It might need tweaking to fit the tune . Could we add in baa baa black sheep too?
Thanks, Gary, for enlightening us of this racist nonsense embraced by our House of Parliament. Note how Te Reo always precedes the English wording, and how the former pages are festooned with stars, while those secondary are bereft. I must admit, I couldn't stomach reading most of the tosh, but I did see that "Treaty Partnership" is a major theme and that it refers to Maori as the "tangata whenua" when Te Tiriti records them correctly as "tangata maori" which is what they were, for there were others here before them. And, I also see that they are reverting to their tribal ways in identifying whose land upon which the House of Parliament sits. One wonders if we should have a wager who will be the next occupiers?
But all this just evidences how racist and divisive this country has become - all without the mandate of its people. It also suggests what many of those 18,000 extra public servants were up to, generating this BS while no doubt engaging in well-paid "consultation" with those identifying with the pre-eminent favoured race. Who would ever have thought that a 'culture' that hadn't achieved full stone age status (they didn't have pottery), could be so pivotal to the future of a country in the 21st century?
And Luxon talks of productivity - while this prevails right under his nose. No disrespect intended to the disabled, but that man is blind, deaf, and dumb (in the informal sense) if he thinks this will end well.
Peter, in my opinion, claiming that there is Treaty partnership leading to co-governance is on a par with claiming that Parliament is sovereign because we have elected particular Members of Parliament.
Maybe, if the Constitution Act 1986 had gone to a referendum first, the people would have voted to retain the status quo. Maybe if New Zealand was still tied to the Monarchy, the Maoris would not have been able to take over Parliament and institute co-governance. Maybe that is why Sir Geoffery Palmer did not put the Constitution Act 1986 to a referendum.
Since 1975 Parliament, the judiciary and the Waitangi Tribunal have been working together to replace democracy with tribalism, and I don't know why.
Personally I believe that the current 3 coalition parties have to set out their 2026 election Coalition requirements NOW before the election because National have repudiated the main agreements basis that they were voted in on.
PM Luxon and Tama Potata Treaty Primciple Bill statements were totally unacceptable. Add Zero Carbon, Paris Accord and Maori preference National look second rate .
National do not just look 2nd rate, they are in danger of scraping the bottom of the barrel with their lacklustre performance thus far. Much more of this and they will do a 'Dutton' at the next election.
While we commonly believe that Parliament is sovereign and that elected politicians shape the direction of the country, in practice, much of the real power lies with unelected public servants and bureaucrats. These individuals—who remain in their roles regardless of election outcomes—are the ones who draft policy, control departmental agendas, and filter the information politicians receive.
Over time, this machinery has been captured by woke radical activists who use the levers of bureaucracy to push ideological agendas, often without public scrutiny or mandate. Politicians, lacking either the will or the expertise to challenge them, largely rubber-stamp what the bureaucracy puts in front of them. As a result, the elected government becomes a puppet show—while the real decisions are made behind the curtain by a politically activist administrative class.
All of this should be common knowledge. The media has been captured by the promoters of this agenda and we are being led in a false direction. The public should be made aware and put back on a less destructive track.
So what are we gonna do about it just sit and complain
Let's invite America to invade us that will end all this Maori nonsense I am not too enthralled with America but they do have a better constitution than us and there won't be any Treaty with the Maori
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