On The Platform, Michael discusses Auckland Law School Associate Professor Andrew Erueti's new research, Indigenous Rights Beyond the Liberal Frame, explores how governments use the language of "equalit", "non-discrimination" and "one law for all" to resist Māori authority and constitutional transformation.
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Writer and former broadcaster Michael Laws, who served as an MP and Mayor, is now a councillor on the Otago Regional Council, and talkback host on The Platform.
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Aim: to install tribal rule by Maori - without consultation with the NZ people for approval or rejection. Keep repeating this fact.
If the msm had any profound ability observations and comments such as from Laws would be the norm, but his is almost a lone voice. It is reassuring that at least one rational observer still exists His observations on RNZ very apt.
These Maori activists , I suggest can justify they are standing up for all those underclass Maori , the seeming victims of colonisation - this is Marxism as well.
Fiona Kidman has just posted a poem, in Newsroom about how Maori culture is being ripped away from them ( as it always has been apparently) because of the six Maori words in the infant reading book, being removed . This is a very overworked topic , but as an expert in remedial reading , I am very familiar with early reading and there is a structure which includes being systematic in these readers and this means only certain words are included dependent on their phonic components , at that particular stage . Te reo has completely different vowels from English , making te reo words anomalous , to the intent of the book. Marae and Karakia are
two of the words , but also the English words house and prayer would also not be included in the book at this elementary level since they include more advanced phonic sounds not covered yet in the structured literacy programme.
But ah no, ignorant people who have no knowledge of teaching reading phonically rush in with glee to correct these imagined offenses against Maori . So certain they are, that they have discovered a terrible racist insult. What Joy!
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