Lady Moxon is married to the Anglican bishop, Sir David Moxon, hence her damehood.
Lady Moxon trained in law at Waikato University and worked as a lawyer in the area of handling treaty claims and settlements. In fact, she is listed as the “claimant” in a large number of claims before the Waitangi Tribunal, those, mainly relating to Oranga Tamariki.
Lady Moxon was a Maori Party list candidate in both the 2020 and 2023 general elections, failing to be elected both times. Fundamentally another John Tamahere acolyte?
In 2024 Lady Moxon was awarded an honorary doctorate by Waikato University for her contribution to our health system, more accurately, for her prodigious efforts in “righting the systemic bias and inequities in New Zealand’s health care!”
With the election of the National, ACT and NZ First coalition in 2023 and their, according to Maori activists, destruction of the Treaty of Waitangi and their destruction of Maori culture, Lady Moxon started to seize a larger share of the political activists spotlight.
Very soon after the election of the National, ACT and NZ First coalition Lady Moxon hot footed it to the Waitangi Tribunal, clamouring, “The Government Are Breaching the Treaty” by planning to “Dissolve the Maori Health Authority!”
Now this is where I begin to become a little suspicious of Moxons personal, probably prolonged, indirect drain on the public purse.
If you are from the Waikato area you may have heard of Te Kōhao Health. Outside of Waikato, possibly not.
Have a look at their website – https://www.tekohaohealth.co.nz/
Te Kōhao Health is a Whānau Ora provider. Therefore, government funded.
Te Kōhao Health are a significant entity and health provider in the Waikato, responsible for delivering social services, justice programmes, primary healthcare, education initiatives and even commercial ventures.
You guessed it. All those fantastic services are comprehensively dependent on government contracts!
Their mission statement declares – “A world leading enabler of oranga whānau, through tikanga Māori, Te Whakaputanga and Te Tiriti.”
Lady Moxon is the Managing Director of Te Kohao Health. A position she has held for over 20 years.
Her son and daughter are also part of the 15 person Te Kohao Health management team.
In early November Lady Moxon lodged an urgent human rights complaint with the United Nations over “systemic discrimination” of Māori in New Zealand.
The complaint was laid with the UN “ Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination,” commonly known as CERD.
Filing an urgent complaint under CERD’s “early warning and urgent action” procedure is a system that permits CERD to respond rapidly and possibly prevent serious violations of the “International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.”
An “early warning and urgent action” complaint allows CERD to focus on preventing any violations from escalating, thus facilitating the urgent action procedures to address issues requiring immediate attention to stop or limit serious violations!
Would you believe it. Did any of us know that numerous categories of racial discrimination is occurring in New Zealand, right under our noses!
Lady Moxon knew!
Lady Moxon was a Maori Party list candidate in both the 2020 and 2023 general elections, failing to be elected both times. Fundamentally another John Tamahere acolyte?
In 2024 Lady Moxon was awarded an honorary doctorate by Waikato University for her contribution to our health system, more accurately, for her prodigious efforts in “righting the systemic bias and inequities in New Zealand’s health care!”
With the election of the National, ACT and NZ First coalition in 2023 and their, according to Maori activists, destruction of the Treaty of Waitangi and their destruction of Maori culture, Lady Moxon started to seize a larger share of the political activists spotlight.
Very soon after the election of the National, ACT and NZ First coalition Lady Moxon hot footed it to the Waitangi Tribunal, clamouring, “The Government Are Breaching the Treaty” by planning to “Dissolve the Maori Health Authority!”
Now this is where I begin to become a little suspicious of Moxons personal, probably prolonged, indirect drain on the public purse.
If you are from the Waikato area you may have heard of Te Kōhao Health. Outside of Waikato, possibly not.
Have a look at their website – https://www.tekohaohealth.co.nz/
Te Kōhao Health is a Whānau Ora provider. Therefore, government funded.
Te Kōhao Health are a significant entity and health provider in the Waikato, responsible for delivering social services, justice programmes, primary healthcare, education initiatives and even commercial ventures.
You guessed it. All those fantastic services are comprehensively dependent on government contracts!
Their mission statement declares – “A world leading enabler of oranga whānau, through tikanga Māori, Te Whakaputanga and Te Tiriti.”
Lady Moxon is the Managing Director of Te Kohao Health. A position she has held for over 20 years.
Her son and daughter are also part of the 15 person Te Kohao Health management team.
In early November Lady Moxon lodged an urgent human rights complaint with the United Nations over “systemic discrimination” of Māori in New Zealand.
The complaint was laid with the UN “ Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination,” commonly known as CERD.
Filing an urgent complaint under CERD’s “early warning and urgent action” procedure is a system that permits CERD to respond rapidly and possibly prevent serious violations of the “International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.”
An “early warning and urgent action” complaint allows CERD to focus on preventing any violations from escalating, thus facilitating the urgent action procedures to address issues requiring immediate attention to stop or limit serious violations!
Would you believe it. Did any of us know that numerous categories of racial discrimination is occurring in New Zealand, right under our noses!
Lady Moxon knew!
Because she alleges a “significant and persistent pattern of political racial discrimination against Māori“ adding “…that since late 2023 a series of government actions have reversed progress towards fulfilling New Zealand’s obligations under the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.”
Lady Moxon confirmed that “Māori leaders, land protectors, and advocates are facing rising threats and violence as the political climate deteriorates. She warned that racialised criminalisation, police expansion, and new search and seizure powers under gang legislation have created “police-state conditions” for many Māori whānau.” “… that it’s really time that this government, and successive governments, put the Treaty where it belongs, which is at the forefront of all their decisions that are made…”
Adding “I’m not disputing the fact that we have a sovereign government, but I am disputing the fact that they cannot be sovereign without taking into consideration Te Tiriti o Waitangi. And right now, they don’t care…”
“All of these things actually compile to create a situation which is untenable for us. Even taking Māori words out of 5-year-olds’ schoolbooks, taking Māori words away from Government departments and saying ‘English first’.
“Our people are standing up to say, ‘enough – enough of this badgering, enough of this hostility, enough of this racial discrimination.”
After flying to Geneva, Lady Moxon, on the 25th of November, assisted by her party of 12, in her allotted 3 minutes, personally delivered her complaint to the United Nations Committee on Eliminating Racial Discrimination.
Two others from Lady Moxons entourage also presented their three minutes of grievances to the committee; Tina Ngata from the National Iwi Chairs Forum, and Donna Cormack from “Research to Interrupt Racism and (In)equity.”
While not in the photo above, Claire Charters, co author of He Puapua, arrived in Geneva later to join the “Whack the government junket!”
Lady Moxon opened her complaint by remonstrating – “I brought this urgent complaint because, since late 2023, the coalition government has escalated discrimination against Māori, spread misinformation, and overridden constitutional norms. These actions breach Te Tiriti o Waitangi, our founding agreement.”
Lady Moxon proclaimed to the committee “multiple indicators of your Early Warning and Urgent Action Procedure are now met.”
Identifying these horrendous acts :
- The disestablishment of the Māori Health Authority
- The reversal of world-leading smokefree laws despite Māori having the highest lung cancer rates globally
- The review of references to the treaty principles in legislation
- The review of the Waitangi Tribunal
- Boot camps for young offenders. (That is racist?)
- Cuts to cultural reports that help courts address racism
- The fast-track legislation
- Proposed changes to freshwater protections known as Te Mana o te Wai, under the Resource Management Act
- The disestablishment of Maori wards
- The suspension of three Maori Party MP’s for performing a haka in parliament. (Suspended for an unprecedented three weeks!!!)
- The downgrading of Maori language in schools
- The downgrading of Maori history and the treaty of Waitangi in the school curriculum
- The downgrading of Maori language in government agencies
Questions like,
Why Lady Moxon needed a party of 12 to hold her hand, especially as she had only three minutes to state her case to the committee?
Were they presenting facts or fabrications?
Were they flying Business or Economy?
Are there any planned stop overs on the way home to further impart the earth shattering knowledge to other indigenous groups of this government undertaking a “significant and persistent pattern of political racial discrimination against Māori”
And the most important question – WHO IS PAYING for 12 Maori Sovereignty activists to fly to Switzerland to deliver fictitious claims of racism?
From what I could find through internet research, the costs for Lady Moxon’s and fellow activists “Whack the government junket” to Geneva would have fallen to Te Kōhao Health.
Now I am in full cynical mode, because it was Te Kōhao Health that actually filed the complaint, not Lady Moxon herself!
I see what you did there, Lady Moxon. A very cunning move!
You get the limelight; they pay the bills!
This is where we should all begin to become annoyed.
Te Kōhao Health, as a Whānau Ora provider is primarily government funded.
Therefore, taxpayers are, once again, actually funding sovereignty activists by indirectly footing the bill!
Is this just another example, among many, of grifting the taxpayer, another example of Maori elite manipulating a “high trust” procedure, another example of Maori activists rorting the system to their personal advantage?
What “trickle down” benefit do you think Maori in the streets of Ngaruawahia or Kaikohe will ever receive as a result of this junket?
This was just another taxpayer funded junket for Maori Sovereignty activists to slam the “racist” government!
Yes, we are actually funding the “White Anting” of our democracy?
If you are in any way sceptical about my cynicism, have a read of an attendees version of the junket by Roimata Smail https://e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-analysis/on-the-ground-in-geneva/
Roimata Smail (Ngāti Maniapoto, Tainui, England, Scotland, Ireland) is a lawyer specialising in Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
Pee Kay writes he is from a generation where common sense, standards, integrity and honesty are fundamental attributes. This article was first published HERE
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