Just released: the latest episode of Andy Oakley Investigates.
Once again, our state-funded broadcaster TVNZ is in the spotlight — and not in a good way. In this short video, I break down the latest example of the racism they continue to platform and promote.
The things that tame and television New Zealand got wrong.
- In 1960s the government was smaller [snorts] than the 2020s.
- 1960s government spent less in welfare per GDP.
- The 1960s government promoted home ownership.
- 1960s government tax less or the same as the current government.
- Poor performance of television New Zealand is due to bias and lies not Facebook or Google.
- And forces racism, Maori are not a race and are not mentioned in the Treaty of Waitangi.
Watch it here:
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As always, I’d love to hear your thoughts.
Andy Oakley is a national manager in one of the country’s largest mechanical companies and has been involved in the HEVAC, smoke control and construction industry for more than 35 years. He is also the author of Cannons Creek to Waitangi, a book that details how and why he made a treaty claim to the Waitangi Tribunal. This article was first published HERE
11 comments:
What’s worse: independent (for the most part, occasionally a National minister intervenes) state-funded media, or media completely captured and owned by foreign right-ring billionaires? Common sense would say it is astonishingly obvious.
People often say that reality has a left-wing bias, due to natural human empathy and sense of community. We are a herd animal, after all.
Thank you Andy for a very informative video. I did watch to the end.
While I have listened to debates about what the Treaty actually says for decades, I have never understood the confusion or disagreements on what is valid. I get it now - yaaaaay.
It would be good for us to just agree the documents are old, and while they are a piece of history, lets just agree everyone is equal, we all share in this land, ownership and governance and get on with our lives. The grifters have a vested interested in fueling disagreements and we are all paying for it with our taxes through the waitangi tribunal. Just crazy.
I think NZ would prosper enormously if it was possible to agree we are all equal. No more grievance industry. The elite maori need to understand we (the taxpayer) have had enough.
I pray for a govt with the vision and guts to see this.
Where is the gratitude from the Tames of this world as they poison the very public that generously fund these lying snakes? The current govt could have turned off this enabling spigot long ago which would go a long towards to improving the public’s mental health.
Yes, thanks Andy for doing something that should have been done a long time ago. Too many in New Zealand fail to have done some homework on this and have been hoodwinked by our politicians, the Waitangi Tribunal, Maori activists, and highly-taxpayer paid neo-Marxist's, like Tame. This is the very stuff that needs to be taught in our schools - not the revisionist's lies promoted by the aforementioned and some of our purported Maori scholars, like Profs Mutu and Ruru.
And specifically note the words, "tangata maori", not "tangata wenua" (or the revision, whenua) - for Maori were not the people of the land. Maori had already 'displaced' them, as was their custom.
Honour the Te Tiriti, indeed!
For some independent equals woke bias equals truth and contrary views need muzzling. Nzme may have a rightwing investor but its news reflects the editorial slant unchanged with a token view of managed dissent but no disputing treaty narratives. Zb has mike and a couple of others mildly right but again waryof going too far . It does have correct thinking hosts too.
I watched the entirety of the Oakley report.
Is it Crown Law, Police HQ , Political Parties or the Courts to be forwarded the video for their perusal .
Justice has to be done and has to be seen to be done when the blatant misrepresentation of the facts involves ALL New Zealanders future.
“1960s government tax less or the same as the current government.”
If you only look at rates of corporate or personal income tax this is obviously not true. But it overlooks the fundamental shift in taxation policy represented by the introduction of GST.
In the 1960s there were a few indirect consumption taxes (petrol, alcohol , tobacco) but no GST. Today it makes up nearly 40% of government revenue. And as is well known, indirect taxes are regressive, i.e. take up a bigger proportion of the income of poorer sectors of the population
Overall, tax as a percentage of GDP hasn’t changed much since the 1960s. It’s just that the burden now falls more heavily on working people.
Where is the outrage about the bought-and-paid-for media platforms in the country? I for one am not kowtowing to foreign billionaires. It isn’t the kiwi way and it isn’t the country I grew up in. What is wrong with people. Jim Grenon is not one of us.
@Anonymous 1.20pm, Grenon only owns 19.90% of NZME.
Is Anon 425 sticking up for foreign influences? Back in my day we would see that as traitorous. People don’t put that kind of money in and expect nothing back.
Terry C. That GST falls mainly on working class people is debatable. It may be a higher propotion of their income but they also benefit the most from tax credits. People on higher incomes also spend more on higher value goods so actually contribute a lot of GST. Some spending is inevitable for everyone, but having GST gives them some choices. Grow their own vegetables, don't have the latest phone or a new car etc. Income tax on the other hand is unavoidable and punishes low income workers. Sales tax on goods before gst arrived was clumsy and difficult to administer. Also got some people rich who could lobby for monopolies on certain goods. Best thing about the 60's as far as working people were concerned was no easy credit cards etc. Had to save up for what you wanted
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