I’ve written screeds on how Woke/Critical Social Justice/Identitarianism/Neo-Marxism/Post-Modernism – call “it” what you will - has been entrenched in New Zealand society.
Almost exactly a year ago – my how time flies! – I poked fun at New Zealand Wokery.
Read full story
New Zealand’s only indigenous strain of Wokery is Māorification. All the rest - Trans activism, biological sex denialism, the hierarchy of victimhood and oppression and all other Woke Slop – has been mindlessly imported from foreign Western universities.
The Woke Māorification of New Zealand comes in various forms. There’s the incoherent and divisive Critical Race Theory narrative that anyone with any Māori ancestry, no matter how fractional, is (and forever will be) oppressed by a system devised by humans without such ancestry. There’s the historically false notion that Māori, as an invented collective, have not accepted a unitary central government for all New Zealanders, such that a nascent Māori nation is about to bloom.
Sensible New Zealanders are forced to suffer the amorphous and entirely fabricated Treaty of Waitangi “Principles”. We see the supplanting of New Zealand’s Christian heritage by strident Māori mysticism as NZ’s new State religion. Then there’s all the Māorific forced conformity, self-censorship and cultural safety. And so on, and so forth.
I’ve explored at length the main mechanisms by which New Zealand is being Māorified. We have the Public Service Commissioner, Sir Brian Roche, running interference, protecting the public service from any attempts by the elected Government to de-Māorify public agencies and shielding Māori Mafia from scrutiny and accountability:
THE COCK ROCHE AND THE HERON
John McLean 27 February 2025
The Public Service Commission has at last released its report on the abuse of New Zealanders’ personal information in connection with Auckland’s Manurewa Marae and the 2023 general election.
Read full story
We have Woke educational and judicial systems, powerfully immune from governmental efforts to tone down the racialization of New Zealand. The current Government appears to have simply given up on removing “Treaty Principles” references from legislation, an express commitment under the National/NZ First coalition agreement.
Even ACT Party leader David Seymour, previously a staunch opponent of co-governance, has thrown in the towel, defending local authorities’ rights to enter into co-governance arrangements with Māori groups. Speaking with The Platform’s Sean Plunket on 26 March, Seymour said that local governments should be entitled to enter into co-governance arrangements with Māori groups; entitled to do so without endorsing referenda from local constituents and free from democratic legislative constraint on such racialized co-governance.
The mechanisms of Māorification are deep and pervasive. Turn over almost any rock and you’ll find entrenched hope for an eternal race-based New Zealand. Take, as just one example, incorporated societies.
In 2022, the departed Labour Government passed a new Incorporated Societies Act. The 2022 Act replaced incorporated societies legislation dating back to 1908. So far, so good. But embedded in the new incorporated societies legislation are explosive sleeper cells for Māorification.
The new Incorporated Societies Act enables incorporated societies to include in their constitutions expressions of their “tikanga” (customs, value and practices that guide behaviour and decision-making in accordance with Māori cultural principles) and “kawa” (Māori protocol and etiquette). All incorporated societies are required to be re-registered, with a new, compliant constitution, before the close of 5 April 2026.
Wokesters, race hustlers and critical race theorists have latched onto the “tikanga” and “kawa” permissions to impregnate incorporated societies’ constitutions with all sorts of Māorification. And New Zealand incorporated societies, numbering about 24,000, are ubiquitous.
Let’s take, as just one example, the incorporated society known as the New Zealand Association of Counsellors Incorporated. NZAC is the body to which most New Zealand counsellors belong. Its President is a woman named Huhana Pene. Who is Huhana? It’s hard to tell.
All ten of NZAC’s national office staff are biological women. Coincidence? I think not. Feminization of Western societies is a powerful force behind Wokery. NZAC’s Executive Director is Tess Casey.
In her NZAC bio, Tess claims to have been “an Executive Judge for New Zealander of the Year”…
NZAC’s new constitution, which you can find on the online Incorporated Societies Register, is totally Māorified.
Under NZAC’s constitution, “NZAC’s purpose is to improve and enhance the mental health and wellbeing of all New Zealanders by supporting and growing the counselling profession”. So far so good. But then things immediately get Woke Weird. The constitution then states:
This [NZAC’s purpose] will be achieved by:
a. Te Roopu Kaiwhiriwhiri o Aotearoa / the New Zealand Association of Counsellors (NZAC) is committed to honouring our responsibilities under Te Tiriti o Waitangi and acknowledging Tino Rangatiratanga of tangata whenua.
b. Te Roopu Kaiwhiriwhiri o Aotearoa / the New Zealand Association of Counsellors (NZAC) is committed to contributing to the healing of the ongoing injustices of colonization and the intergenerational effects that many of our communities continue to suffer.
In other words, NZAC’s constitution expressly provides that it will somehow fulfill its purpose by honoring responsibilities under the Treaty of Waitangi, acknowledging Māori self-determination/sovereignty and committing itself to healing ongoing injustices of colonization and its ongoing effects. How doing those things could possibly contribute to “supporting and growing the counselling profession” is a deep and dark mystery.
NZAC’s constitution then states NZAC’s “KAWA”, which I repeat in full:
KAWA
This Constitution shall be interpreted in regard to the foundational guiding principles and philosophy of Ngā Pou.
1. Mana Whakahaere
Our governance and management systems are ethical, uphold tikanga and value indigenous knowledge. They are underpinned by a commitment to partnership.
2. Mana Motuhake
We uphold self- determination and our responsibility for exercising critical thinking and taking action against racism and discrimination.
3. Mana Tangata
We uphold the sanctity and dignity of a person’s right to be. We respect the diversity of humanity inherent in all people, expressed as Tapu i te Tangata. All members are welcomed and included in NZAC.
4. Mana Māori
We uphold, value and honour te reo me ōna tikanga me nga Matauranga Māori katoa.
5. Mana Mauri
We nurture and protect the essence of Te Taiao, inherent in the environment.
6. Mana Moana
We acknowledge the place of Aotearoa in Te Moana Nui A Kiwa (the Pacific Ocean) and that this pre-dates Te Tiriti. We respect and value our shared history and connections with the peoples of the Pacific.
7. Equity
We acknowledge our responsibilities to social justice and recognise that different levels of advantage require different approaches and resourcing.
8. Active Protection
We actively work towards protecting the rights of individuals and communities, including tangata whenua.
In other words, NZAC’s express Māori protocol and etiquette (kawa) under its constitution is to:
- uphold Māori tikanga (customs) and knowledge, underpinned by a commitment to the bogus notion of a constitutional partnership between Māori and non-Māori people
- uphold Māori self-determination (the divisive, ahistoric notion of a separate Māori nation), exercise post-modernist critical thinking and take action against racism and discrimination (Critical Race Theory)
- uphold the sanctity and dignity of “a person’s right to be” – whatever on Earth that’s supposed to mean
- uphold, value and honour the Māori language and culture
- nurture and protect the natural world
- acknowledge that New Zealand is in the Pacific Ocean and was situated there before the Treaty of Waitangi (well, blow me down), and connections to Polynesian people
- acknowledge responsibilities to social justice and recognise that different levels of advantage require different approaches and resourcing (Critical Social Justice, oppressive/oppressed groups, hierarchies of victimhood…all that post-modernist woo woo)
- actively work towards protecting the rights of individuals and communities, including – you guessed it – people with Māori ancestry
All of this is under the umbrella of NZAC’s guiding principles -“Ngā Pou”, exhaustively described on NZAC’s website, including the following:
Click to view
Counsellors affiliated with NZAC must undertake continuing professional development, including this Critical Race Theory indoctrination:
Click to view
What can we make of this? First, none of NZAC’s pervasive Māorification can possibly be raising the standard of counselling in New Zealand. Skilled counsellors ought to take all “counsellees” as the come, with all their unique facets, foibles and backgrounds, and without racial stereotyping. NZAC Māorification is just misguided, performative piffle. NZAC’s constitution entreats all counsellors not to counsel but, rather, to indoctrinate vulnerable and suggestible people who need counselling with Māori Critical Race Theory.
More generally, we can safely say that NZAC’s constitutional Māorification is far from aberrant. Expressly encouraged by the new incorporated societies’ legislation to include tikanga and kawa, a multitude of New Zealand’s 24,000 societies have included radical Māorification in their constitutions. And the legislated Māorification invitation wasn’t accidental. It was yet another deliberate ploy to permanently raceify New Zealand and New Zealanders.
Lastly, statutory Māorification of incorporated societies is set to endure. With appropriate political will and concerted action, legislative references to Treaty Principles and suchlike can be removed. Māorification, once entrenched in constitutions, is far harder to expunge. The neo-Marxist March through New Zealand’s institutions marches on. The Post-Modernist Wreckers may win in the end, but that’s no reason to stop fighting.
John McLean is a citizen typist and enthusiastic amateur who blogs at John's Substack where this article was sourced
13 comments:
I used to think or assume that we were living in a rational world, now it seems increasingly unhinged. The Devil’s out riding it appears.
I thought that we had a Bill Of Rights that said something about racial prejudice not being permitted? All I can say is that if I’m ever in need of a counsellor they had better not so much as hint that they harbour racist views.
Another excellent reason to ensure that traitor, JA, never feels able to return to live in NZ. She probably thinks if she waits long enough her subterfuge will bear fruit. But I have news for her. She will return to a divided nation where enough people remember and they are getting angrier with each passing day. When I read these maorification articles and how sneakily embedded the crap is I am shaking with outrage. MC
>"sanctity and dignity of “a person’s right to be”"
– gosh, I like that one. So I am actually allowed to be a Dutchman (that's Dutch + man) proud of the contributions his forebears made to humanity during the imperialist/colonialist era and indeed much later, such as in the post-war era in NZ. Yay!
Thanks John - another enlightening, but depressing, commentary. It also only underscores the futility of NZF's/Winnie's Treaty Principles expunge endeavours will really be and why we so crucially need something akin to Seymour's 'original' TPB referendum.
Meantime, all strength to your pen!
Fully agree Peter, but it seems the only real strength the pen has is at the voting booth, but it seems that even the 'peoples' champion' David Seymour may have lost his mojo, so who are we to vote for to dampen down the aspirations of the fractional descendants of eastern Polynesian treaty subjects?
That line "acknowledge that New Zealand is in the Pacific Ocean and was situated there before the Treaty of Waitangi" speaks volumes! Yes, Adolf Putin thought that New Zealand was to the left of Australia!
Why hasn't the govt done something about the Incorporated Societies Act? They can change the law. Hello! Why haven’t they done something to put a stop to this absolute stupidity? They must have seen the changes being made under the last Labour govt. They must have understood the potential impact of the changes… What's wrong with these politicians?
I listened to the Michael Laws/David Seymour interview and I don't think it's fair to put Seymour in the stocks over this. Laws was pushing for central government to stop councils involving iwi in water management. Seymour wasn't keen on government intervention. Here's why. Door opened, thin end of wedge stuff but, more importantly, a Left government will use the precedent to tell Councils what they must do and that will likely include mandatory, nationwide involvement of iwi. What seemed like a solution at the time subsequently becomes a much bigger problem.
What Seymour did say was that the failure of National and NZ First to support the TPB is the genesis of this problem. The TPB laid down three principles: parliamentary sovereignty, protection of rights and equality before the law. Councils inviting unelected agencies into governance and presumably financial involvement in water management is infringing the rights of ratepayers and is not equality before the law. If the TPB had support there would have been a mechanism for dealing with this, and a lot else besides.
Now let’s see; who can I vote for to guarantee that this unadulterated cr*p being forced down our throats will be completely expunged from our increasingly fragile society. No-one? Time to take a lengthy overseas holiday in October then. Let’s not encourage them.
Woke entrenched or infected?
It was only yesterday in some half-baked meeting where some "stale pale" weak willed little "wokester" had a moan about the lack of participation in the biweekly organization wide "Karakia".
But never mind, that was solved by a director's idea to "volunteer / tell" their underlings to host lead and participate with greater regularity.
Now I don't know what happened about the concept of freedom of choice in the workplace when if one is compelled into praying?
But I suspect placating some mystic deity would only be on the pretense they might keep their job.
I have said for years now, that the disruption & undermining of our successful & productive way-of-life has been the combined, uncoordinated & instinctive result of Women moving from The Home into Business, Education & Politics.
Initially Feminist, followed by women in general are different from men & their reasoning & instincts search for Coordination Cooperation & Consensus; they are Herd Instinct animals at heart. There has been much written on this 'culture' so I won’t go on ……. BUT…..
It seems perfectly clear in the messy ideas that are plainly wrong & against much learned incentive/outcome experience of western democracy.
PS - this 'feminisation' is only in western demo's who can afford the ridiculous …… at the moment.
Poverty is the Natural State of Man & is where we are going
To Anon at 1.08: the hikoi to stop the ACT TP Bill made its point ( with media help). But when National rigged the Select Committee ( by artificially counting the numerous supportive submissions so as to reduce their impact), no one protested. The apathy of NZers has consequences .
But, if they recall Luxon saying " he liked nothing in the Bill" (meaning he did not support equal citizenship), they could punish National at the 2026 election by voting ACT and NZF. Then Luxon, having won over the Bill, would lose over the election result.
Post a Comment
Thank you for joining the discussion. Breaking Views welcomes respectful contributions that enrich the debate. Please ensure your comments are not defamatory, derogatory or disruptive. We appreciate your cooperation.