Many of us thought the 2023 election was the most important election of a generation. Co-governance, 3 Waters, Maori Sovereignty, Covid and the state of the economy were all playing a part in further widening the ethnic rift that had been created and cultivated by the 7th Labour government of Ardern and Hipkins.
Were we not heartedly sick and tired of the 6 years of deception and duplicity?
Unsurprisingly, on October the 23rd a majority of New Zealand said they had had enough. The Labour government of the previous six years was swept from office in a near landslide.
New Zealanders made their views on the future of co governance quite clear. On election night it was a resounding, we do not want it in any shape or form!
Thus, ending a chaotic and shambolic six years of Labour government, with the last 3 years particularly disastrous in regards to appalling fiscal management that saw taxpayer’s money run through Grant Robertson hands like water through a sieve and the amplified implementation of the ruinous, ethnically skewed ideology that was He Puapua.
A collective sigh permeated the nation.
But has anything changed or improved in regards to those hot ticket issues that shaped how we voted in ’23?
The state of the economy has not improved to the expected and promised extent, He Puapua, in the guise of Maori Sovereignty/co-governance and the Maori gravy train that is the Waitangi Tribunal rumbles onward unchecked and unconstrained!
The next election will determine the character and integrity of how we are governed and what rights we will have. The way we vote in the next general election will have a huge impact on our lives, our children’s lives and, quite possibly, our grandchildren’s lives.
As we draw nearer to, what I suggest, could be the most important election of my generation, I’m am endeavouring to allow a bit of sun light to fall upon Maori activist’s quest for sovereignty and ask;
“Has this coalition government allowed and enabled the furtherance of the Maori Sovereignty agenda as outlined in the highly contentious He Puapau Report?”
In March 2019, then Maori Development and Local Government Minister Nanaia Mahuta, commissioned a working group to provide advice and recommendations on how to realise and validate the UN Declaration on Rights of Indigenous People.
The working group called their report He Puapua. In English, a break!
Although completed in November 2019, the report and its radical and confrontational recommendations avoided any public scrutiny until after the 2020 election where Labour secured a majority government.
He Puapua is a Maori activist driven blueprint to replace our present form of Government, using a far-reaching restructure, that institutes a new governance structure comprised of a Maori Government and a Government for Non-Maori.
The Maori Government would hold a power of veto over many of the other government’s functions, but there is not a reciprocal power of veto for the non-Maori Government.
He Puapua proposals involve dramatic, transformational constitutional change. Constitutional change that requires a mandate from ALL New Zealanders.
When National, ACT and New Zealand First announced they had formed a government post the 2023 election, they promised they would uphold democracy, equality, and would end race-based rights.
Chris Luxon and the National Party undertook at election-time to put paid to what was colloquially termed “Maorification” and to re-establish a level playing field in all levels of governance in accordance with the equality of citizenship before the law as laid out by the Treaty of Waitangi.
Yes, we have witnessed the repeal and/or the abolishing of “Hot Button Items” such as Three Waters and the Maori Health Authority. Both dis-established with a degree of fanfare. However, that is turning out to be merely window dressing from National; Just enough to placate the older, wiser generation. Those who are the most concerned about the way Luxon pursues his, now slowly being revealed, agenda to further empower Maori.
I for one am finding it increasingly difficult not to believe the Prime Minister, many of those holding prominent positions in the National Party hierarchy and to a lesser extent, some of the National caucus are quite comfortable empowering and encouraging the moves to governance by ethnicity.
I am informed by a National Party member that at a National Party Northern regional meeting in 2022, a very significant remit was tabled for debate.
But there was an interesting sidebar to this debate. Unusually, the National Party hierarchy blocked journalists from reporting on the debate.
What was far too contentious for the press to report? What was such a hot potato that they didn’t want the public to hear about? What was liable to frighten the horses and why wasn’t Chris Luxon going allow that?
So, what was in the remit that triggered a degree of nervousness that would see party leaders prevent journalists from observing and reporting on the debate?
That straightforward remit was – That, in its manifesto for the next General Election, “The National Party pledges to review any decisions made to implement any part of the He Puapua Report.”
“…review any decisions made to implement any part of the He Puapua Report.” What was so worrying about that? Is that not the perfect example of political semantics and ambiguity in action? There is enough wriggle room left in that statement you could drive a bus through it! Why not put it in the 2023 manifesto?
Surely, it was a perfect political solution. Words wrapped in political framework carefully selected to build a narrative that evokes the desired “understanding,” but designed to omit the actual facts!
There was no compulsion, there was no undertaking and there was no obligation to embark on or accomplish anything! “…review any decisions made to implement any part of the He Puapua Report” is vagueness on steroids!
But still, National were not having a bar of it!
He Puapua was the taboo word! Mentioning it was to be avoided at all cost! Wasn’t that what labour had done for over 12 months. Why was National avoiding any association with He Puapua?
Why would He Puapua be so toxic to Luxon and National when their constitution states “Equal Citizenship and Equal Opportunity” is a core value. Why was any discussion about He Puapua to be shut down when it calls for Maori to exercise full authority over lands, waters and other natural resources?
Apparently, in the closed debate, the Chair of the Maori Special Interest group within National, unsurprisingly spoke against the remit and, probably thinking he could close the debate down by asking a simple question, asked, “How many have read and understood He Puapua?” Imagine his and Luxon’s consternation when a significant number of raised hands “answered in the affirmative.”
But that remit, as vague and ineffective as it was, even though it was passed at the meeting, never made it into the party’s manifesto. Strange that!
He Puapua was then, just as it is now, the big bogeyman that National and Luxon refuse to confront!
To me, the clearest indicator of Prime Minister Luxon’s patronage of and reluctance to upset Maori, was his stance on ACT’s Treaty Principles Bill. A bill that set about restoring the integrity of our founding document by ensuring the same rights and duties for all New Zealanders.
Luxon gladly pronounced National would only support the bill up to Select Committee stage!
Stating, “National won’t support the bill, it will be voted down and it won’t become law” and also ruled out a referendum while he is prime minister. Adding there was “..real common ground in the values of [Māori] and the National party, and National wanted Māori participating in the economy, which would help them support their people.”
This stance demonstrates Luxon’s obvious nervousness around any bill, any referendum that curtails or prevents the furtherance of Maori authority. Why would Luxon deny citizens a democratic referendum, basically, deciding the future of democracy in New Zealand?
Why the reluctance to test the issue in the court of public opinion? Because he knew what the result would be?
Chris Luxon and his coalition partners need to reflect on where they have taken this country and then deliberate very carefully on where and what they plan to lead this country to. If they were truthful and honest they would engage with the public and make it abundantly clear just what they plan for New Zealand regarding the ever increasing influence and control being vested in Maori.
NZ First proudly proclaims in its “Our achievements: Commitments that have been achieved in our first 2 years” “Stop all work on He Puapua.”
No-one does semantics like Winston! The word Stopped should have been used, but that would have meant telling porkies! He Puapua has just gone underground and its implementation has taken on a number guises!
How much further do they, and National in particular, plan to take New Zealand down the path towards an ethno-nationalist state?
What follows that? What lies in store for New Zealand in the future?
Because, once in motion, there is no functional, workable or reasonable end to an agenda such as the one currently being inflicted on our country.
In spite of the fact that no successful, prosperous country has ever been built on division by race – our political leaders are attempting to take us down that path. It is truly appalling that New Zealanders are being subjected to the whole dishonest and racist He Puapua con job. A con job that is quietly progressing behind closed parliamentary doors, maneuvered by the Maori elite who stand in the shadows, being enabled to stretch their dangerous and influential tentacles far into and through society!
The governance of New Zealand is nearing or is at, one of its most important crossroads.
How long is it before the question on every one’s mind is; Is He Puapua Unstoppable?
Chris Luxon, Prime Minister of New Zealand, the man who refuses to confront He Puapua.
Because he supports it? Or simply weak leadership?
Pee Kay writes he is from a generation where common sense, standards, integrity and honesty are fundamental attributes. This article was first published HERE
Unsurprisingly, on October the 23rd a majority of New Zealand said they had had enough. The Labour government of the previous six years was swept from office in a near landslide.
New Zealanders made their views on the future of co governance quite clear. On election night it was a resounding, we do not want it in any shape or form!
Thus, ending a chaotic and shambolic six years of Labour government, with the last 3 years particularly disastrous in regards to appalling fiscal management that saw taxpayer’s money run through Grant Robertson hands like water through a sieve and the amplified implementation of the ruinous, ethnically skewed ideology that was He Puapua.
A collective sigh permeated the nation.
But has anything changed or improved in regards to those hot ticket issues that shaped how we voted in ’23?
The state of the economy has not improved to the expected and promised extent, He Puapua, in the guise of Maori Sovereignty/co-governance and the Maori gravy train that is the Waitangi Tribunal rumbles onward unchecked and unconstrained!
The next election will determine the character and integrity of how we are governed and what rights we will have. The way we vote in the next general election will have a huge impact on our lives, our children’s lives and, quite possibly, our grandchildren’s lives.
As we draw nearer to, what I suggest, could be the most important election of my generation, I’m am endeavouring to allow a bit of sun light to fall upon Maori activist’s quest for sovereignty and ask;
“Has this coalition government allowed and enabled the furtherance of the Maori Sovereignty agenda as outlined in the highly contentious He Puapau Report?”
In March 2019, then Maori Development and Local Government Minister Nanaia Mahuta, commissioned a working group to provide advice and recommendations on how to realise and validate the UN Declaration on Rights of Indigenous People.
The working group called their report He Puapua. In English, a break!
Although completed in November 2019, the report and its radical and confrontational recommendations avoided any public scrutiny until after the 2020 election where Labour secured a majority government.
He Puapua is a Maori activist driven blueprint to replace our present form of Government, using a far-reaching restructure, that institutes a new governance structure comprised of a Maori Government and a Government for Non-Maori.
The Maori Government would hold a power of veto over many of the other government’s functions, but there is not a reciprocal power of veto for the non-Maori Government.
He Puapua proposals involve dramatic, transformational constitutional change. Constitutional change that requires a mandate from ALL New Zealanders.
When National, ACT and New Zealand First announced they had formed a government post the 2023 election, they promised they would uphold democracy, equality, and would end race-based rights.
Chris Luxon and the National Party undertook at election-time to put paid to what was colloquially termed “Maorification” and to re-establish a level playing field in all levels of governance in accordance with the equality of citizenship before the law as laid out by the Treaty of Waitangi.
Yes, we have witnessed the repeal and/or the abolishing of “Hot Button Items” such as Three Waters and the Maori Health Authority. Both dis-established with a degree of fanfare. However, that is turning out to be merely window dressing from National; Just enough to placate the older, wiser generation. Those who are the most concerned about the way Luxon pursues his, now slowly being revealed, agenda to further empower Maori.
I for one am finding it increasingly difficult not to believe the Prime Minister, many of those holding prominent positions in the National Party hierarchy and to a lesser extent, some of the National caucus are quite comfortable empowering and encouraging the moves to governance by ethnicity.
I am informed by a National Party member that at a National Party Northern regional meeting in 2022, a very significant remit was tabled for debate.
But there was an interesting sidebar to this debate. Unusually, the National Party hierarchy blocked journalists from reporting on the debate.
What was far too contentious for the press to report? What was such a hot potato that they didn’t want the public to hear about? What was liable to frighten the horses and why wasn’t Chris Luxon going allow that?
So, what was in the remit that triggered a degree of nervousness that would see party leaders prevent journalists from observing and reporting on the debate?
That straightforward remit was – That, in its manifesto for the next General Election, “The National Party pledges to review any decisions made to implement any part of the He Puapua Report.”
“…review any decisions made to implement any part of the He Puapua Report.” What was so worrying about that? Is that not the perfect example of political semantics and ambiguity in action? There is enough wriggle room left in that statement you could drive a bus through it! Why not put it in the 2023 manifesto?
Surely, it was a perfect political solution. Words wrapped in political framework carefully selected to build a narrative that evokes the desired “understanding,” but designed to omit the actual facts!
There was no compulsion, there was no undertaking and there was no obligation to embark on or accomplish anything! “…review any decisions made to implement any part of the He Puapua Report” is vagueness on steroids!
But still, National were not having a bar of it!
He Puapua was the taboo word! Mentioning it was to be avoided at all cost! Wasn’t that what labour had done for over 12 months. Why was National avoiding any association with He Puapua?
Why would He Puapua be so toxic to Luxon and National when their constitution states “Equal Citizenship and Equal Opportunity” is a core value. Why was any discussion about He Puapua to be shut down when it calls for Maori to exercise full authority over lands, waters and other natural resources?
Apparently, in the closed debate, the Chair of the Maori Special Interest group within National, unsurprisingly spoke against the remit and, probably thinking he could close the debate down by asking a simple question, asked, “How many have read and understood He Puapua?” Imagine his and Luxon’s consternation when a significant number of raised hands “answered in the affirmative.”
But that remit, as vague and ineffective as it was, even though it was passed at the meeting, never made it into the party’s manifesto. Strange that!
He Puapua was then, just as it is now, the big bogeyman that National and Luxon refuse to confront!
To me, the clearest indicator of Prime Minister Luxon’s patronage of and reluctance to upset Maori, was his stance on ACT’s Treaty Principles Bill. A bill that set about restoring the integrity of our founding document by ensuring the same rights and duties for all New Zealanders.
Luxon gladly pronounced National would only support the bill up to Select Committee stage!
Stating, “National won’t support the bill, it will be voted down and it won’t become law” and also ruled out a referendum while he is prime minister. Adding there was “..real common ground in the values of [Māori] and the National party, and National wanted Māori participating in the economy, which would help them support their people.”
This stance demonstrates Luxon’s obvious nervousness around any bill, any referendum that curtails or prevents the furtherance of Maori authority. Why would Luxon deny citizens a democratic referendum, basically, deciding the future of democracy in New Zealand?
Why the reluctance to test the issue in the court of public opinion? Because he knew what the result would be?
Chris Luxon and his coalition partners need to reflect on where they have taken this country and then deliberate very carefully on where and what they plan to lead this country to. If they were truthful and honest they would engage with the public and make it abundantly clear just what they plan for New Zealand regarding the ever increasing influence and control being vested in Maori.
NZ First proudly proclaims in its “Our achievements: Commitments that have been achieved in our first 2 years” “Stop all work on He Puapua.”
No-one does semantics like Winston! The word Stopped should have been used, but that would have meant telling porkies! He Puapua has just gone underground and its implementation has taken on a number guises!
How much further do they, and National in particular, plan to take New Zealand down the path towards an ethno-nationalist state?
What follows that? What lies in store for New Zealand in the future?
Because, once in motion, there is no functional, workable or reasonable end to an agenda such as the one currently being inflicted on our country.
In spite of the fact that no successful, prosperous country has ever been built on division by race – our political leaders are attempting to take us down that path. It is truly appalling that New Zealanders are being subjected to the whole dishonest and racist He Puapua con job. A con job that is quietly progressing behind closed parliamentary doors, maneuvered by the Maori elite who stand in the shadows, being enabled to stretch their dangerous and influential tentacles far into and through society!
The governance of New Zealand is nearing or is at, one of its most important crossroads.
How long is it before the question on every one’s mind is; Is He Puapua Unstoppable?
Chris Luxon, Prime Minister of New Zealand, the man who refuses to confront He Puapua.
Because he supports it? Or simply weak leadership?
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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