New Zealand’s nursing profession is being dragged, kicking and screaming, into a state-mandated hallucination. The Nursing Council’s 2026 Draft Code of Conduct isn't a safety document; it’s a theological shakedown. It is an attempt to lobotomize the secular, scientific mind and replace it with a 19th-century tribal blueprint that has no business in a modern hospital.
Thanks to the intervention of Todd Stephenson and the ACT Party, the lid has been lifted on this rot. Nurses have been calling out for a lifeline, terrified that their careers will be sacrificed on the altar of "cultural alignment." It’s time to stop being polite. It’s time to stop being "vague." It’s time to speak the truth until it hurts.
I. The Treaty Is Not A Stethoscope
Let’s be brutally honest: The Treaty of Waitangi is a 180-year-old contractual relic. It is not a medical textbook. It cannot heal a wound, it cannot stop a hemorrhage, and it cannot diagnose a disease. To force nurses to "enact" Treaty principles in a clinical setting is a metaphysical heist.
The political class has taken a piece of parchment and turned it into a golden calf. They expect you to bow. They expect you to treat patients based on their family tree rather than their clinical urgency. This is Apartheid with a "Bicultural" Paint Job. If you are prioritizing one human being over another because of a "partnership" ideology, you aren't a nurse—you’re a political operative.
Ii. The Fetish Of Compelled Ritual
The hospital should be a temple of Reason, not a cathedral of Ritual. The Council wants to bake "spirituality" into your license.
I. The Treaty Is Not A Stethoscope
Let’s be brutally honest: The Treaty of Waitangi is a 180-year-old contractual relic. It is not a medical textbook. It cannot heal a wound, it cannot stop a hemorrhage, and it cannot diagnose a disease. To force nurses to "enact" Treaty principles in a clinical setting is a metaphysical heist.
The political class has taken a piece of parchment and turned it into a golden calf. They expect you to bow. They expect you to treat patients based on their family tree rather than their clinical urgency. This is Apartheid with a "Bicultural" Paint Job. If you are prioritizing one human being over another because of a "partnership" ideology, you aren't a nurse—you’re a political operative.
Ii. The Fetish Of Compelled Ritual
The hospital should be a temple of Reason, not a cathedral of Ritual. The Council wants to bake "spirituality" into your license.
● The Karakia: It’s a prayer. Stop calling it a "poem."
● The Hongi: It’s an intimate physical exchange.
● The Pōwhiri: It’s an initiation.
Forcing a secular, atheist, or differently-believing nurse to participate in these rituals is a physical and spiritual trespass. It is a kinky power trip for bureaucrats to watch highly-trained professionals forced to perform a ritual they don't believe in just to keep their license. If your "spirituality" requires me to share your breath against my will, it’s not "culture"—it’s assault. The Bill of Rights says we have the right not to believe. We are reclaiming that right today.
Iii. Linguistic Handcuffs: The Farce Of Forced Māori
We must address the Forced Bilingualism currently infecting the sector. In a country where 99.999% of the population communicates in English, the Council is mandating the use of Māori terms in professional settings as a loyalty test.
● Language Enforcement: You are now expected to colonize your own tongue with state-sanctioned jargon.
● The Neutrality Trap: If you choose to speak clear, secular English and object to these terms, you aren't seen as "neutral"—you are framed as hostile or "culturally unsafe."
This is Compelled Speech. To monitor a nurse's vocabulary for "correctness" is a Soviet-style tactic. A hospital requires precision, not a political performance in a language the vast majority of patients and staff don't even use for clinical life-saving.
Iv. The Speech Police And The Death Of Dissent
Principle 4.2 of this draft code is a Gag Order. By banning "offensive" or "ill-informed" speech, the Council is setting a trap for anyone who dares to point out that the emperor has no clothes.
If you think the Treaty is a load of crap, or if you find Māori spirituality irrelevant to pharmacology, the Council wants to fire you. They want to police your Facebook likes and your BBQ conversations. They want to turn your colleagues into informants. This is a Stasi-style surveillance of the soul. We refuse to be bullied into silence. If the truth is "offensive" to the Treaty-obsessed ego, let it be offended. Puncture the ego; save the profession.
V. To The Activists: We Are Home.
The standard response to anyone standing up for One Law for All is the predictable, mid-wit slur: "Racist." "Colonizer." "Go back to where you came from."
Listen closely: We are not guests in this country. We were born here. Our ancestors built the hospitals you are currently trying to deconstruct. We are not "partners" in an eternal racial standoff; we are sovereign individuals. We belong to one species—Homo sapiens—and we deserve one law. To the activists who think they can tribalize our healthcare: Stay the f*** away from our clinics. Your "mumbo-jumbo" has no place where lives are on the line.
Vi. The Demand For A Clean Blade
We don’t want a "conversation." We want a Legislative Cleanse:
1. Strip the Code: Remove every mention of the Treaty, "equity," and spirituality.
2. Clinical Primacy: A nurse is judged by the scalpel and the syringe, not by their ability to recite state-sanctioned poetry.
3. The Secular Shield: No nurse shall ever be compelled to rub noses, pray, or speak a language they do not wish to use.
4. End the Racial Tiers: One law, one people, one standard of care.
The Nursing Council can either be a regulator of science or a cult of the tribe. It cannot be both. We stand with the nurses who are tired of the nonsense. We stand with Todd Stephenson for having the guts to call it out. The air in our hospitals is thick with the perfume of fear—it’s time to open the windows and let the cold light of Reason back in.
Stand Up Straight. Speak The Truth. Reclaim Your Nation.
John Robertson is a patriotic New Zealander who frequently posts on Facebook.
15 comments:
Common on luxflakes. Read the room. Get rid of this Māori grift, and mumbo jumbo. The majority of NEW ZEALANDERS have had enough of the pandering to these part-maori grifters.
Shut them down, and get the fundamentals of democracy, one people one law, and equality to all to the fore. NEW ZEALAND is multicultural, and should not be dedicated to by a minority, who continue their false claim that they are indigenous to NEW ZEALAND. We are all equal under the one law.
NEW ZEALANDERS should not be subjected to this part maori rort.
Shut down the treaty distortion, the waitangi tribunal, the Māori seats, and the continued take by a bunch of so called part Māori elites who are on the gravy train.
Grow a spine, luxflakes. Standup and do what you promised during the campaigning for the 2023 elections.
James
I cited Singapore in a comment the other day as a successful small country. Singapore took a pragmatic and positive view of colonisation. New Zealand, for some unknown reason, seems to be embedding a Stone Age philosophy into all its legislation. Why? People will say..oh the reason Singapore is successful is this or that, but in reality to be successful and progressive you need to ditch the primitive. New Zealand has the people, the will and the means but unfortunately we have extremely poor leadership. Not just Luxon, but many of them in parliament. Time to emerge from the Stone Age once and for all.
Wow, did Massey’s old VC Jan Thomas land a job at the Nursing Council? Sure sounds it.
Forcing someone to promote or be seen to promote a political cause is a violation of that person's human rights. At least so say both the US and UK Supreme Courts following parallel cases involving bakers about 6 years ago,
It's time for us to go on the offensive.
This is what nurses should be going on strike over. The Nursing Council must be sacked and summarily! You could not pay me enough to put up with this nonsense.
This is a no holds barred statement of fact of a pervasive rot that has invaded the teaching, legal and real estate profession, local councils, to name few. It is divisive at a time when New Zealand needs clarity and strong leadership for all, not just a few.
Hear, hear! As someone who is married to a career nurse who works in a highly specialised area of practice, this maorification/ cultural indoctrination nonsense is outrageous. One of her extremely capable and experienced colleagues has called it a day - in a large part due to the unnecessary anguish over the upcoming cultural hoop-jumping that will be required as part of regular competency accreditation. My wife is a hair's breadth from doing likewise. There is something very wrong when such patient-empathetic, highly-skilled operators are prepared to walk away from their lifetime profession because its overseeing parent body has so lost its way in determining what really is important.
One just needs to read the articles posted on this site over recent days to realise how deep and destructive this racist rot is. From paid cultural leave at OT (and other organisations), to the proposed Maori elevated and centric Planning and Natural Environment Bills, to even the Maorified and BS embedded Salvation Army report - it's everywhere - and I haven't mentioned our pharmacists and real estate professions etc etc. And, to think we gave this Govt a mandate to rid us of it. What fools were, moreso to trust someone so clearly lacking of a backbone as our PM. What a disgrace but, no doubt, much back-slapping and appeasement at the closed- door Iwi chair's meetings.
Luxon - a statement is required of you.
Please address the nation and tell us if you intend NZ to continue to slide more officially into state legislated apartheid ?
Why are you the only person in Government who determines the future of NZ ?
You were elected with a mandate to stop, and remove the elevation of Maori to a superior status with greater rights than everyone else.
Your historical reputation is going to be as bad as Ardern's evil He Puapua plans.
The Pharmacy Council has also inserted a whole raft of similar requirements for pharmacists. They call it "Competence Standards" for all pharmacists. Read the rubbish here :- https://pharmacycouncil.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Competence-Standards-for-Aotearoa-New-Zealand-Pharmacists.pdf
I was a pharmacist for over 50 years. 20 years of that I was an Advisory Pharmacist for Medsafe. Our profession has always functioned as a high quality health service washout needing any trumped up "Cultural" nonsense."
Here is just a sample of the competency requirements for pharmacists:-
1.1 Applies te Tiriti o Waitangi7 to pharmacist practice
1.1.1 Explains the relevance of te Tiriti o Waitangi to the provision of health care and how its
implementation may help pharmacists contribute to equitable health outcomes for Māori
1.1.2 Explains the impacts of pre- and post te Tiriti o Waitangi events on the health of Aotearoa
New Zealanders
1.1.3 Demonstrates critical awareness of health initiatives aiming to embed te Tiriti o Waitangi
into healthcare practice
1.1.4 Explains the meaning of tino rangatiratanga and how it is relevant to the delivery of
health services
1.1.5 Explains health inequities that Māori communities experience and how this influences
own practice
1.1.6 Facilitates equitable and culturally respectful access to health care services for Māori,
including by engaging with whānau, hapū, iwi and Māori-led organisations
While a little off-topic but just to underscore the spread of this rot, check -out this Council website: https://www.huttcity.govt.nz/property-and-building/search-property-and-building.
It's offered in two languages (ratepayer's take note and ponder at what cost?), if you hit "te Reo" you get it exclusively in the reo - hit "English" and you guessed it, you get it first in bold type Te Reo, then in English in normal font underneath. Ministerial directives obviously didn't get as far as Local Government, but then we still have the likes of: https://www.linz.govt.nz/ who ignored it anyway. Luxon and Brian Roche have some explaining to do. Not so much LHCC, as their stupid constituents did vote for a Maori Ward, and this is what you can sort of expect from such undemocratic, ideological thinking.
In my orbit more than a few either do not care, feel they can't change things anyway or actually support the wonderfulness for various reasons . They support Labour because, well, Labour is kind and gives people more and they really do not care about much else.
"What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?"
– Thomas Jefferson
More reasons for our best and brightest to pack their bags and head offshore. How can healthcare advance when it is required to look backwards and operate under stone-age based policies?
the government need to step in to the Nursing Council sack the management and put in a statutory board - Gerry did it to ECAN when it got derailed by greenies, now its time for Nursing before its completely stuffed by these idiots.
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