The tweet also included a list of policy positions attributed to Te Pāti Māori, suggesting they support establishing a range of separate institutions and systems for Māori, including:
That contradiction hasn’t gone unnoticed. It raises questions about whether policy differences or personal rivalries are at play, particularly between NZ First leader Winston Peters and ACT leader David Seymour. Their often-tense relationship has been a recurring theme in New Zealand politics, with ideological alignment frequently overshadowed by personal friction.
If the two leaders were able to set aside their differences, there might be greater room for constructive collaboration on shared concerns, including the future of Treaty-based policy and national unity.
Are personality clashes holding back political progress in New Zealand?
Matua Kahurangi is just a bloke sharing thoughts on New Zealand and the world beyond. No fluff, just honest takes. He blogs on https://matuakahurangi.com/ where this article was sourced.
- A separate Māori parliament
- A separate Māori tax system
- A separate Māori health system
- Separate Māori access to superannuation payments
- A separate Māori ACC
- Separate Māori supermarkets
That contradiction hasn’t gone unnoticed. It raises questions about whether policy differences or personal rivalries are at play, particularly between NZ First leader Winston Peters and ACT leader David Seymour. Their often-tense relationship has been a recurring theme in New Zealand politics, with ideological alignment frequently overshadowed by personal friction.
If the two leaders were able to set aside their differences, there might be greater room for constructive collaboration on shared concerns, including the future of Treaty-based policy and national unity.
Are personality clashes holding back political progress in New Zealand?
Matua Kahurangi is just a bloke sharing thoughts on New Zealand and the world beyond. No fluff, just honest takes. He blogs on https://matuakahurangi.com/ where this article was sourced.
7 comments:
It's all (politics) kabuki theater
Sadly, with Winston it is always personal. He could have been an exceptional politician, except he has always put himself first.
That was certainly a trait of pre-colonial Maori life where Chiefs regularly disagreed to the point of warfare - with rape, pillage, slavery, death, and cannibalism as regular outcomes. Such was the harmony in the lifestyles of the times. It seems that's why today there's this penchant for reciting the Maori tribal affiliations of that typically minor part of their ancestry, in order to aid the ability to identify why there might be differences and where old scores can be settled through tikanga's practice of utu. Whatever issues there are now, it doesn't bode well for the future with He Puapua now apparently embraced by our two main political parties and with people like Peters, holding grudges to the expense of the nation.
Of course, the simple way to address TPM, is to get rid of the Maori seats - something which should rightfully have happened, in a world of purported equality, a great many decades ago.
i will resist commenting on the notion of a maori supermarket. Where is Tremaine when needed?
This Article is a very poor attempt to shift the onus of divisiveness from Part Maori of the Maori Party to Seymour and Peters, of ACT and NZFirst respectively, both of whom are Part Maori. I wonder what that tells the rest of us ? Part Maori blames Part Maori ? Mussled thinking by the author and the Part Maori Party ? It also raises the issue of the Party's name. Should it not be The Part Maori Party ?
Just end official recognition of ethnicity in New Zeaand . Fair to everyone , Simple and effective .
A sensible and simple solution Basil. That's why our politicians won't touch it. One can already hear the howls of racist from the usual people and politicians will run and hide, as usual
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