Māorification of New Zealand is turning people off.
Under the education minister’s oversight, a ‘paramount objective’ for school boards is that local tikanga Māori, mātauranga Māori and te ao Māori is taught in schools. The National Party currently seem hellbent on quietly embedding all things Māori into legislation. When found out, Minister Erica Stanford got on her high horse, trying to reign in the criticism and limit the damage. The line from Hamlet, “The lady doth protest too much, methinks” seems rather appropriate. Clearly, the insults thrown at Hobson’s Pledge blaming them for ‘spreading lies and misinformation’ for simply pointing out her racist legislation, suggests an overreaction or excessive defence.
Childishly claiming Hobson’s Pledge supporters are ‘foaming at the mouth with hatred and screaming at the sky’, is completely over the top. Stanford’s sudden explosion of anger reveals there is something to hide. Hobson’s Pledge has since heard from a Beehive insider that indeed ‘Erica is absolutely wedded to every Māori initiative imaginable’.
Stanford knows the parliamentary committee recording reveals she is totally committed to embedding te Ao Māori and focusing on ‘equity’ for Māori. She cannot deny her leanings, no matter how much she tries to deflect blame onto others. Hobson’s Pledge has asked for the Section 127(2)(e) to be removed from the bill but Standford refused.
The National Party is taking a punt with its voters on this issue. Minister Doocey has been reported recently as saying National is a centrist party with two right-wing parties in coalition and people that want right-wing policies can vote for them. In other words, go elsewhere if you don’t like what our party is doing. It is in plain sight now that National is leaning left and politically closer to the Labour Party in belief.
Māori ideology continues to be funded with taxpayers’ money. For example:
Stanford knows the parliamentary committee recording reveals she is totally committed to embedding te Ao Māori and focusing on ‘equity’ for Māori. She cannot deny her leanings, no matter how much she tries to deflect blame onto others. Hobson’s Pledge has asked for the Section 127(2)(e) to be removed from the bill but Standford refused.
The National Party is taking a punt with its voters on this issue. Minister Doocey has been reported recently as saying National is a centrist party with two right-wing parties in coalition and people that want right-wing policies can vote for them. In other words, go elsewhere if you don’t like what our party is doing. It is in plain sight now that National is leaning left and politically closer to the Labour Party in belief.
Māori ideology continues to be funded with taxpayers’ money. For example:
The Budget 2025 allocated $54 m for operational funding and $50 m in capital funding to support Māori learner success, including teacher training in te reo Māori and tikanga, new curriculum resources for Te Marautanga o Aotearoa (the Māori – medium curriculum), and a virtual Learning Network for STEM in Māori-medium schools. However, cuts to programs like Wharekura Expert Teachers initiative have drawn criticism for reducing Māori – specific support.
The National Party continues to ignore any criticism on this issue. It seems they believe Māorification of schools is a calculated risk worth taking and not going to upset too many supporters. They ignore the older people at their peril. Many ‘loyal’ over-65-year-olds voters left the party in disgust over Luxon and his MPs signing up to Ardern’s Covid mandating horror.
Luxon arrogantly thought National would still get over 40 per cent of the vote in the 2023 election. They did not! Taking such a punt with boomers over Māorification implies a willingness to try something despite the outcome being quite uncertain.
Parents and grandparents want academic excellence in NZ schools. Imposing tikanga onto the schools is controversial. Few Māori view tikanga as the law of the land, rather than a common law and lawyers are testing this conflict in the New Zealand judicial system. But it is not law. National voters once again are cancelling their membership as teaching Kiwi kids local tikanga Māori, mātauranga Māori and te ao Māori, is not seen as a ‘paramount objective’ for the future achievement of their families.
Graham Adams is a freelance editor, journalist and columnist. He writes on this subject:
https://goodoil.news/stanfords-sly-treaty-move-backfires/
If the National leaders continue hoping voters won’t notice their racist policies, they will be in for another shock. As one commenter said:
It seems the only thing that will make the Nats change is if the MPs think they’ll lose their jobs, because their voter numbers go down. Then the pressure will go on Luxon, if it hasn’t already.
Eliora is a fourth-generation Kiwi is a conservative voter and has worked in health. This article was first published HERE
4 comments:
It isn't correct that the "paramount objective" for school boards is tikanga Māori, mātauranga Māori and te ao Māori and it also isn't correct that it was Stanford who first put those things into the legislation. However, under Stanford the School Boards are supposed to meet their paramount objective through tikanga Māori, mātauranga Māori and te ao Māori. so the distinction between a paramount objective and secondary objective is somewhat subtle.
The arrogance of Stanford and Luxon is most unbecoming and a sure put off for National voters who elected the party expecting the Maorification process to be reversed back to a one system government. Be it at their peril to continue to ignore the racial divide.
This failure to address Maorification in New Zealand is the number one issue. It is absolutely crucial to our survival as a democracy. Everything else will flow from this in the future. Access to beaches, rivers, DOC land and eventually it could even be ski fields and certain areas of the country. Equal opportunity for businesses. Equal opportunity for employment. The access to health requirements could change again under another government. The judicial system is becoming flawed. Law and order will regress. People will leave the country in droves and who will support those remaining? I personally think it is abhorrent for the coalition not to address this. If citizens keep voting for this and these short-sighted politicians, they are foolish in the extreme. Yes, the present National MPs have always advocated for this. Some of them are passionate about it and also immigration. We were supposed to be gaining skilled immigrants. Is this the case?
National is showing we, the people, are to have zero say in the hand over of our society to tribal rule. The only difference is the speed at which it is going to happen. It is time to get it over and done with. Return Labour, along with TPM in our last free elections and just move on.
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