Let’s stop lying to ourselves. This forced bilingualism isn’t “inclusion.” It’s a political power game. A language spoken fluently by less than 4% of the country is being rammed into every crack of public life — whether we want it or not. And if you speak up? You're a racist. That’s the level of intellectual rot we’re dealing with.
Te reo isn’t “thriving.” It’s being artificially kept alive with millions of taxpayer dollars. That’s not revival — that’s resuscitation. You’re funding it whether you use it or not. Whether you like it or not. Whether you even asked for it or not. And most of us didn’t.
Let’s talk about passports? Nah — this goes way beyond passports. This is government departments rebranding into unreadable bilingual soup. This is schools shoving the language into everything from maths to science. This is councils pouring money into dual signage while rates skyrocket and roads fall apart.
This isn’t progress. This is delusion — bought and paid for with public funds while hospitals are understaffed, crime’s rising, and people can’t afford groceries.
You want to speak te reo? Go for it. No one’s stopping you. But don’t turn it into some kind of compulsory national religion, then act shocked when people get sick of the sermon.
And here’s the brutal truth: most Kiwis aren’t using it, don’t need it, and sure as hell didn’t ask for it to be injected into every document, form, website, meeting, and school lesson. English works. It unites us. It functions. It’s the language of 99% of this country.
But the moment you say that out loud? You get called names by people who ran out of arguments years ago.
This isn’t racism. This is common sense.
The real extremists are the ones demanding total submission to their cultural vanity project — and calling it diversity.
Enough. Call it what it is: ideological coercion disguised as kindness. And it’s long past time it was exposed and rejected.
If we want to kill this bilingual circus once and for all, we need to go straight for the jugular. Three laws are keeping this nonsense alive: the Māori Language Act 2016, the Public Service Act 2020, and the Education and Training Act 2020. These are the lifelines feeding te reo into every corner of public life — from bloated government departments to classrooms where kids are being force-fed a language most families neither asked for nor use.
If this government had a spine, it would scrap them today. If not, then the next election needs to be a wrecking ball. Repeal the laws. Dismantle the machine. Cut off the funding, cut out the rot — and give this country a break from the cultural hostage-taking. Enough. Is. Enough
John Robertson is a patriotic New Zealander who frequently posts on Facebook.
Let’s talk about passports? Nah — this goes way beyond passports. This is government departments rebranding into unreadable bilingual soup. This is schools shoving the language into everything from maths to science. This is councils pouring money into dual signage while rates skyrocket and roads fall apart.
This isn’t progress. This is delusion — bought and paid for with public funds while hospitals are understaffed, crime’s rising, and people can’t afford groceries.
You want to speak te reo? Go for it. No one’s stopping you. But don’t turn it into some kind of compulsory national religion, then act shocked when people get sick of the sermon.
And here’s the brutal truth: most Kiwis aren’t using it, don’t need it, and sure as hell didn’t ask for it to be injected into every document, form, website, meeting, and school lesson. English works. It unites us. It functions. It’s the language of 99% of this country.
But the moment you say that out loud? You get called names by people who ran out of arguments years ago.
This isn’t racism. This is common sense.
The real extremists are the ones demanding total submission to their cultural vanity project — and calling it diversity.
Enough. Call it what it is: ideological coercion disguised as kindness. And it’s long past time it was exposed and rejected.
If we want to kill this bilingual circus once and for all, we need to go straight for the jugular. Three laws are keeping this nonsense alive: the Māori Language Act 2016, the Public Service Act 2020, and the Education and Training Act 2020. These are the lifelines feeding te reo into every corner of public life — from bloated government departments to classrooms where kids are being force-fed a language most families neither asked for nor use.
If this government had a spine, it would scrap them today. If not, then the next election needs to be a wrecking ball. Repeal the laws. Dismantle the machine. Cut off the funding, cut out the rot — and give this country a break from the cultural hostage-taking. Enough. Is. Enough
John Robertson is a patriotic New Zealander who frequently posts on Facebook.
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Correct. Why would you want to learn te reo if it is not your culture?.It is not used outside nz. English however is used in almost every country on earth. So maybe the whole world is racist, if they were to follow the nz narrative.
Maori culture is like religion, a lot of money is used to promote and teach religion, but you have the choice to ignore it.
Maori culture at least makes us money by providing a unique point of difference for promoting NZ Inc.
That said, the Luxon government must rid us of the Maori mumbo jumbo legislative land mines, laying concealed until a Clark advised McAnulty gets his hands on the detonator.
I'm sure Luxon is aware he has 7 years to sort it out.
The TOW principles bill wasn't permitted to go to select committee for no reason!
Had an online governance course where the first 10 minutes was three white women giving their pepeha. I guess they have other people's money and they care little for and disrespect the use of my time for their virtual signalling. Totally discredited any wisdom they may have actually had.
If they stuck to the original 700 word lexicon the te reo nonsense would be marginally reasonable, but making up new words everyday is bulls...t, and they know it.
Why are kids being forced to know and remember fabricated words like " ferris wheel " ?
Sadly, it's the big corporates, like AirNZ that are making themselves look foolish. I stopped flying AirNZ when they refused to address me in English.
I doubt that the new AirNZ CEO has a Maori background - is he going to persist with the rudeness of using corporate te reo whenever possible ?
Push back - strike out te reo words and restore English.
Bang on.
Hastings has been renamed in a power grab that has cost ratepayers plenty for all the signage and documents that spew out of the council building.
Road names as well.
The apartheid ethnostate agenda is being fully endorsed by our “foreign controlled” coalition government, with National keeping its foot on the apartheid co-governance pedal, NZ1 directing budget funding to Maori wardens/Maori women welfare league and Act introducing “race” into the Fire Service.
We the people need to unite and march down to the “corporate headquarters” masquerading as our “democratic parliament” and set them straight on what we think of their agenda to turn NZ into an apartheid ethnostate based on lies fraud and deception around the TOW and our early history.
You've expressed the sentiments of many, John.
'Balanced', you're kidding yourself if you think Luxon will have another 7 years.
Truly - our nation has become racially divided in a very big way.
It must be stopped or New Zealand will very soon become New Zimbabwe.
It is way overdue to end ALL official recognition of race or ethnicity in ALL legislation in New Zealand.
With race/ethnicity no longer having official status, there would be:-
NO more race-based seats
NO race-specific party in Parliament.
NO more race-based wards in local government.
NO more census questions about ethnicity.
NO more co-governance.
NO more so called “Treaty” claims of unending victimhood.
NO separate Health Authority.
NO Waitangi Tribunal !
NO racial apartheid !
Peter, the typically unfavorable to the ruling party mid term polls don't agree with you....
Roy Morgan’s New Zealand Poll for June 2025 shows the National-led Government (National, ACT & NZ First) on 51.5% (up 1.5% points) and the Labour-Greens-Maori Party Parliamentary
I think it’s time we start calling things what they are.
For Maori anything is racist by definition. Pro-Maori, racist. By Maori for Maori? racism for racists. Maori greetings? Racist greetings.
They have gone way way too far, plus I doubt they going to like the reality that they are the racists.
We gotta stop this ridiculous selective racial promotion dividing everything. We are all New Zealanders form a whole host of different backgrounds.
Being not racist, I don’t obsess over any one part of my background, nor define myself that way. Neither should anyone else. Stop the madness.
My guess is that Luxon is being told he needs to take voters off Labour(remain firmly in center), leave the right position to Act and NZ First, and focus on taking as many voters as possible from Labour in the next election. The thing is I think most Labour voters support getting rid of this maorification thats going on in NZ - so.... Luxon why are you doing nothing??????? You are not listening to the voters
Thank you John. Controlled fury is what emanates from your article. I particularly liked “unreadable bilingual soup” and “cultural hostage taking.”
You didn’t mention our 2 Crown-owned media, TVNZ and RNZ, which play a significant part in the force-feeding of the populace with te reo. Kathryn Ryan introduces Nine-to-Noon with the Maori word for the day of the week, followed by the English word.
This is doubly-irritating to me because what she’s pushing is artificial, probably invented by the Maori Language Commission. Pre-European Maori would have figured out the year from the 4 seasons; and the month from the moon and the menstrual cycle. But there is no reason in nature why they would have divided the month into 4 weeks, let alone the week into 7 days.
Kathryn’s great, by the way. Like everyone working for the government she will have to toe the line.
Yes. Even if we accept the worth of protecting te reo, the ways it is being foisted on the population will not achieve such protection.
Balanced - you might know of the quip "bugger the polls" (ex RDM). If Luxon is still at the helm, even in 5 years, as a unified nation we'll be buggered, and it'll be New Zimbabwe - as Doug often mentions.
Methinks dear old "Balanced" needs a new handle, read ""unbalanced" - if Luxon wants a second term, let alone a third then he has to get his finger out. If he cannot look at what happened in Australia and see that the same fate that has just befallen the Libs there is looming for him and his merry bunch of fence-sitters then his advisors must be the same twerps who advised Dutton and currently have the ear of Sussan (numb-bum-rology) Ley
Amen, Amen and Amen..... At the end of the next karakeeea, I plan to say out loud, " The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with us all evermore, Amen" and wait to get kicked out...... or will there be stunned silence... or applause. Wait n see...
If people think any of the maorification is going to be stopped or the gravey train ended l must respectfully suggest than you do not understand Tribal maori.They would rather dye than to accept losing any of their advantages.it is way to late to change anything and the polys know it.This country is already controlled by Tribal Maori,just try and stop them and you will find out.leave the country is all we can do.
People do not yet grasp how far this will go. e.g. Lack of te reo proficiency will stop employment- maybe within 5 years.
Eru Kapa Kingi ( hikoi organizer and TPM MP's son) is on record as saying that, by 2040 and under tribal rule , all citizens must accept that Maori never ceded sovereignty - otherwise their NZ citizenship will be revoked.
I do think that if Luxon pursued a harder line on ''Maori issues'' along the lines of Act there would be violence. It would start with occupations of buildings, defacing and toppling of ''white'' monuments and there would be an increase in pushback from the ''captured'' local authorities and other institutions. Open defiance. We will not comply sort of thing. And a lot of whites are on board now. National desperately needs to keep its equivalent of Teals on board and try to prise votes from Labour. However, msm coverage gives the impression there is no issue, just grumpy old white men and some ''not real Maori'' hangers on opposing a beautiful and wonderful renaissance of ''Maori'' on all fronts . All seen as past-dwelling racists. My impression from polls is many Labour voters vote for the label because it is not ''those b......y Tories '; and can't see any issues. It is the workers' party, they think. They still have their land and house, rugby and booze etc so where's the problem. So many folk I know are unaware of the journalism control fund or He Hapua and think it is all made up...after all if it was true msm would cover it; they still trust it.
The revolution has to start within the ranks of National MPs.
And the National Party.
Whoever breaks ranks first is going to have the full support of National supporters .
If they continue as per the present, then National are going to get support only from those ill or misinformed voters.
As a country, NZ is stuffed if this doesn't happen soon.
Come on National MPs who read this column, action is desperately needed - step forward please.
Doug Longmire - time to change the record. The "New Zimbabwe" thing may have been mildly clever the first time you used it (about 100 comments ago) but it is well past its Use By date now.
Now that Hugh Jorgan mentions it, I have been wondering myself for some time how many times I should let the same post submitted under different articles through........
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AGREE... wonder who will be first to break...
Things are going to get rapidly worse. There is a shortfall of nominations for Councils. Many cannot face the negative tedium of endless matters maori and the stress created by the need for constatnt faigned support.. Or the cancellation if a hint of reason is exhibited. The vacancies will be seized by alert maori insurgents under external activist direction. Manipulated also by infiltrated brain washed pro maori staff., the future this side of Tasman is grim indeed..
I for one like it - it rings true. We have the climate crisis stuff pummeled at us from other quarters every day - and that really irks.
Is that why National is still funding the PIJF till 2025? To be denigrated every day by the msm?
Labour set the PJF to expire next year so it runs until the 2026 election. Hands tied. If the govt tries to change it by withdrawing funds it will be accused of rightwing attacks on an ''independent'' media holding it to account on behalf of the hapless minorities blah blah
Apathy... or have people accepted their fate which is leave to survive?
The local Govt elections are one key indicator - as is the decision on the Ed and Training amendment Bill no 2 where NZ education should remain secular and not Maori-centric. If the Treaty references remain in the bill/law, then NZ Education is sunk forever.
Is there a better analogy than New Zimbabwe ? Haiti perhaps?
This may still happen as 2016 approaches. The MPs are certainly getting the message from voters. However, important not to endanger the Coalition in advance of the election - as this would suit the Left.
Fair comment Hugh. Been used many times.
But it is still true !
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