O'Neill-Stevens is the face of Kiwi socialism, a product of what passes as Kiwi education, captured by Marxism and promoting LGBTQ, social justice and climate change. Teaching that there's no such thing as universal truth or objective reality, turning New Zealand into yet another socialist state to be controlled by billionaire globalists in a New World Order.
Nelson’s Deputy Mayor, Rohan O’Neill-Stevens
That programme has just been helped along by Piha Rescue sometime scriptwriter Erica Stanford, Education Minister and undercover commie (whom some Nats think should replace Christopher Luxon). She's announced $100 million for Maori education. What will increasing institutionalised racism do for race relations? For the Maori babies and children killed by their whanau? For improving Te Pati Maori's abysmal standard of Parliamentary representation for their once-proud people?
$100 million. For increasing victimhood.
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In recent years, there's been a noticeable trend in New Zealand's political landscape. More and more people are identifying as Maori, including some who don't fit the traditional image.
Whether this marks a long-overdue recognition of whakapapa or a calculated political move depends on your perspective, but the pattern is hard to miss.
Robertson, Ardern and Hipkins - merged the Polytechs and
Nelson’s Deputy Mayor, Rohan O’Neill-Stevens
That programme has just been helped along by Piha Rescue sometime scriptwriter Erica Stanford, Education Minister and undercover commie (whom some Nats think should replace Christopher Luxon). She's announced $100 million for Maori education. What will increasing institutionalised racism do for race relations? For the Maori babies and children killed by their whanau? For improving Te Pati Maori's abysmal standard of Parliamentary representation for their once-proud people?
$100 million. For increasing victimhood.
Click to view
In recent years, there's been a noticeable trend in New Zealand's political landscape. More and more people are identifying as Maori, including some who don't fit the traditional image.
Whether this marks a long-overdue recognition of whakapapa or a calculated political move depends on your perspective, but the pattern is hard to miss.
Robertson, Ardern and Hipkins - merged the Polytechs and
created this chaos
Take Nelson’s Deputy Mayor, Rohan O’Neill-Stevens, for example. At just 24, he has attracted attention not only for his youth and rapid rise but also for his claim to Māori and European ancestry, with links to Ngāti Apakura. On the surface, it’s a respectful nod to his heritage. But it’s fair to ask whether his political trajectory would have looked the same without that aspect of his identity
O’Neill-Stevens appears Pākehā - like really Pākeha. That doesn’t mean he isn’t Māori, but it does raise questions in a time where identity plays a major role in how people are perceived, especially in politics and media.
The way media outlets frame his story shows just how powerful identity has become. One headline reads: “Young tāne Māori puts his hand up to lead storm-battered Nelson Council”, clearly highlighting his Māori roots. At the same time, woke platforms like The Spinoff focus on other aspects of who he is, with pieces like “What it’s like to be a queer person in local politics.”
O'Neill-Stevens with Chloe Swarbrick who also
Take Nelson’s Deputy Mayor, Rohan O’Neill-Stevens, for example. At just 24, he has attracted attention not only for his youth and rapid rise but also for his claim to Māori and European ancestry, with links to Ngāti Apakura. On the surface, it’s a respectful nod to his heritage. But it’s fair to ask whether his political trajectory would have looked the same without that aspect of his identity
O’Neill-Stevens appears Pākehā - like really Pākeha. That doesn’t mean he isn’t Māori, but it does raise questions in a time where identity plays a major role in how people are perceived, especially in politics and media.
The way media outlets frame his story shows just how powerful identity has become. One headline reads: “Young tāne Māori puts his hand up to lead storm-battered Nelson Council”, clearly highlighting his Māori roots. At the same time, woke platforms like The Spinoff focus on other aspects of who he is, with pieces like “What it’s like to be a queer person in local politics.”
O'Neill-Stevens with Chloe Swarbrick who also
thought walking over the flag was a Good Thing
O’Neill-Stevens himself has said that he returned to Nelson after studying, only to find little progress on key issues like housing and climate change. He said the situation “viscerally pissed [him] off” and that none of the existing candidates at the time inspired him or represented the communities he connects with.
It’s clear he’s passionate. But there’s also a finely tuned narrative at work here, one that speaks directly to younger, progressive voters. Today, political advantage often comes from ticking identity boxes. That reality should give us pause.
A Maori viewer at the Suter had the mahi
O’Neill-Stevens himself has said that he returned to Nelson after studying, only to find little progress on key issues like housing and climate change. He said the situation “viscerally pissed [him] off” and that none of the existing candidates at the time inspired him or represented the communities he connects with.
It’s clear he’s passionate. But there’s also a finely tuned narrative at work here, one that speaks directly to younger, progressive voters. Today, political advantage often comes from ticking identity boxes. That reality should give us pause.
A Maori viewer at the Suter had the mahi
to hang the flag up
This isn’t to say that O’Neill-Stevens lacks talent or belief in what he’s doing. But we should be cautious about how easily identity can become a kind of political currency. It’s worth asking whether people are being rewarded more for who they are perceived to be than for what they have actually done.
Heritage and whakapapa should be respected, not leveraged. If we reduce identity to a strategic label, we risk undermining the very people and histories we claim to support.
True representation matters. But when identity starts becoming the main qualification, we all lose something important.https://matuakahurangi.com/p/when-being-a-little-bit-maori-becomes
An additional $60m of ring-fenced funding for Maori Medium and Kaupapa Maori Education property, which will deliver up to 50 new classrooms to support the network, providing access to immersion schooling for approximately an additional 1,100 konga.
First, tamariki Maori must
This isn’t to say that O’Neill-Stevens lacks talent or belief in what he’s doing. But we should be cautious about how easily identity can become a kind of political currency. It’s worth asking whether people are being rewarded more for who they are perceived to be than for what they have actually done.
Heritage and whakapapa should be respected, not leveraged. If we reduce identity to a strategic label, we risk undermining the very people and histories we claim to support.
True representation matters. But when identity starts becoming the main qualification, we all lose something important.https://matuakahurangi.com/p/when-being-a-little-bit-maori-becomes
An additional $60m of ring-fenced funding for Maori Medium and Kaupapa Maori Education property, which will deliver up to 50 new classrooms to support the network, providing access to immersion schooling for approximately an additional 1,100 konga.
First, tamariki Maori must
thrive at home
The Government is delivering over $100 million in investment through Budget 2025 to ensure more tamariki Māori thrive at school.
“This Government is firmly committed to properly resourcing our bilingual education system and lifting achievement for Māori students. Our Budget 25 investment delivers on the commitments through our Māori Education Action Plan, which takes a practical approach to strengthening outcomes for ākonga Māori,” Education Minister Erica Stanford says.
This investment encompasses:
co-governance rampant
3 year-old Catalya Pepene needed a proper family,
The Government is delivering over $100 million in investment through Budget 2025 to ensure more tamariki Māori thrive at school.
“This Government is firmly committed to properly resourcing our bilingual education system and lifting achievement for Māori students. Our Budget 25 investment delivers on the commitments through our Māori Education Action Plan, which takes a practical approach to strengthening outcomes for ākonga Māori,” Education Minister Erica Stanford says.
This investment encompasses:
- $10 million to launch a new Virtual Learning Network (VLN) for STEM education (Science, Engineering, Technology and Mathematics) subjects in Kaupapa Māori and Māori Medium education settings, addressing the shortage of qualified STEM teachers proficient in both subject matter and te reo Māori. This will fund 15 kaiako to deliver online STEM education to up to 5,577 Year 9-13 ākonga.
- $4.5 million to develop comprehensive new te reo matatini and STEM curriculum resources and teacher supports for approximately 2,000 Year 9–13 learners in Kaupapa Māori and Māori Medium education. For the first time ever, students will be able to study Shakespeare, international literature, and iconic New Zealand works, including The Bone People entirely in te reo Māori.
- $2.1 million to develop a new Māori Studies subject for Years 11–13, offering students to deepen their understanding of Māori cultural practices, narratives, knowledge, and language. This new learning area will be developed byMātauranga Māori experts and will support learners to grow their knowledge of Māori culture, narratives, philosophies, Mātauranga and language.
co-governance rampant
- $14 million into training and support for up to 51,000 teachers/kaiako in Years 0-13 schools to learn te reo Māori and tikanga as appropriate benefiting over 560,000 students.
- An additional $60m of ring-fenced funding for Māori Medium and Kaupapa Māori Education property, which will deliver up to 50 new classrooms to support the network, providing access to immersion schooling for approximately an additional 1,100 ākonga.
- $4.8 million to appoint seven new curriculum advisors for Kaupapa Māori and Māori medium education to support kaiako in implementing the redesigned Te Marautanga o Aotearoa, including Rangaranga Reo ā-Tā, Poutama Pāngarau, and Hihira Weteoro, benefiting over 27,000 ākonga.
- $4.1 million to support the sustainability and data capability of the Kohanga Reo Network.
3 year-old Catalya Pepene needed a proper family,
not kohanga reo
Julia du Fresne is a sometime journalist, painter and actor. This article was first published HERE
- $3.5 million to support WAI 3310 Waitangi Tribunal Education Services and Outcomes Kaupapa Inquiry.
Julia du Fresne is a sometime journalist, painter and actor. This article was first published HERE
18 comments:
I have always worked in art and design. Why would anyone think trampling on the New Zealand flag is art? As for Erica Stanford she has always been woke. National supporters simply refuse to believe how left-wing their present party is. Most of the MPs could be interchangeable with Labour. They throw a few token bones to their supporters but are firmly of the view the Treaty is a partnership, climate change needs to be addressed by throwing billions of dollars at it and tribalism is acceptable, otherwise they would be pushing for a unified country with a universal education system. I can't understand why parents aren't more vocal as the more time spent on Maorification in schools must be to the detriment of their own children.
I simply cannot fathom National . To spend $100 million sidetracking maori into frivolous study the prime purpose of which is to unite insurgents seems to be purest folly.
They (MP’s) are ALL undercover commies in my book Julia. A collective gaggle shilling for the powers that ought not be.
Refer back a few days to :
Erica Stanford: Supporting More Tamariki Māori To Flourish
Currently it has 56 comments regarding this article.
I have never seen that many comments on any BV article.
Erica Standard, you really blew it on this call, supported by Luxon,and Willis..
You all need to read all of the comments and stop this apartheid.
Impossible . Iwi are " her major partners." Say no more!
Just He Puapua on steroids! Well done Luxon and National.
Guess the Maori party is correct. I am a visitor to this country. No longer the nz I grew up in. As soon as my 99 year old granddad has gone to the great beyond, I won’t stay in the country I was born in as a 2nd class citizen, I would rather be 2nd class in a foreign one. Nz will no longer turn out amazing writers and artists and scientists, scholars. Very sad. Tribal rule is what every parent seems to want for their children, otherwise they would be removing their kids from schools in protest.
Erica, darlingk, time you left gummint and got a real job..... you've only ever worked in a north shore [Nats] electorate setting. A total waste of space.... woke as... and unaware..
Note..... early Britons wore WODE... ie tatts....and soon realised its spelled stupidy after the Romans arrived. And eventually they learned UTU - ie blood feuds had to cease. Perpetually living in the past was no help....... SO HERE WE GO AGAIN...
s l o w learners...
I will say this again as I have repeated numerous times - the great shame in this country is that we have the longest tail of academic underachievement in the Western World.
Maori are not the only underachievers in this tail . What measures are going to be taken to ensure all underachievers are going to be helped ? The rottenness in our education system that has caused underachievement is socialist /progressive / Marxist ideology .
More CRT Marxist agendas will not help Maori nor anyone else. Maori are not victims of racism, nor lack of Te Reo nor colonisation but ineffective teaching methods and lack of traditional discipline and values in the home and school. All our precious children are victims of this since even higher achievers are under performing as well which is recorded by international tests.
McCulley's protegee. Supposed to be a right wing Ardern. Talks well. Major failure in action .
Hon Willis struggled with her competency with the budget and the claimed line by line salvaging taxpayers funds from being wasted.
It was unreasonable to waste $53 million on paying teachers registration annually $464.00 x 114,000 = $52,896.
The extra $100 million dollar maori apporopriation is racist and wrong .
The bloated bureaucracy entwined in teaching is a distraction to teaching and claims of 0ne - 23or30 teacher pupill ratios is frankly unsubstantiated and must be able to be fixed without increasing the Education budget.
I see it this way ;
800,000 pupils and students in New Zealand at present .
114,000 registered and certified teachers in the NZ Teaching Council
4,509 employees in the Ministry of Education.
Therefore
Seven (7) pupil/student to one (1) teacher is the average ratio.
One Ministry of Education employee - 25 teachers are electroniclly advised cumulatively through out NZ
This is a huge Education (mis) approriation with a huge responsibility to the pupils and Taxpayers funding the system.
The Ministry needs to get their issues on the table and sorted.
I am so tired and angry about Luxon. Willis, Stanford, Reti, expropriating my hard earned dollars and handing them over to Maori with no legal reason.
Find me anywhere in our legislation that states that white people have to donate any proportion of their earning lives, or assets to Maori simply because they are Maori.
Does being Maori give them automatic entry to the Para Games ?
No, then consider that Maori are normal people with normal abilities.
I could live with it if Maori had a real physical disabilty, but being brown is only a colour not a lifelong handicap.
I've just cut a big pile of manuka firewood.
How much am I obliged to take down to the local marae ?
Is that any different to me working all week, paying taxes, which Willis and co then give away to the local iwi who can spend on whatever they like with no accountability ?
The lure was great, so I did a DNA test in case I had a 'connection' to the gravy train, Ngai Tahu preferably, 1/640th would have been enough. Alas no luck.
TV1 reports - Maori economy worth $120 billion. No trickle down evident ......
TV1.. $120 Bn Maori assets. Poor little buggers at the bottom get nuttingk... well get bashed an killed orf, eh bro ! . All in elites back pockets...... NgatiWhatua in Auckland own large buildings in the city. Its a scam a century old....
giving indicates patronage! That which is 'Given' is seldom valued.It lessens the receiver. That which earned is valued - creates pride and satisfaction.
STOP 'giving' to Maori - They do not need it, and can choose where they want
to be stationed in society, Their learning in their confected language only
serves to make their progress in education more difficult. Should they wish to learn this language, very welcome, but outside the education system as it has been until recently. Money does not teach, nor create achievement!
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