Having closed, or at least announced they are closing off, the absurd deals between local councils and Māori, once they get the new RMA laws up Hipkins suggests that this will lead to a lot of renegotiation of Treaty settlements.
It will do no such thing.
You know why? Because it might just be that this Government has had enough of court interference of Māori issues, and the Mike Smith mess might just have been the final straw.
I would like to think the interventionist nonsense from the Waitangi Tribunal was the final straw. But the Government seem happy enough to continue to foot that bill, while ignoring pretty much everything they say.
The really important bit of the Hipkins intervention is that he has not explicitly said they will reinstate said council deals.
Why would he not have said that?
Could it possibly be because he too realises that the whole Māorification of this country has gotten wildly out of control, and not even he can bring himself to buy the inevitable fight that would be required in an election campaign if it was him vs Luxon, and one had killed said deals and one was left to defend the indefensible.
The headache Hipkins doesn’t need of course, is they aren't his deals. It's the councils that should be called out and held to account. It’s the councils who are taking the proverbial.
That is not to say the Māori caucus won't get to Hipkins. But for now, at least, he takes what most middle-of-the-road New Zealanders would perceive as a moderate, sensible stance.
And it's exactly those sorts of stances that win elections. Elections are won in the centre and the Māorification of the country is nowhere near the centre, a place the Labour Party once stood fairly solidly and fairly successfully.
Yes, the original Treaty deals have clauses for renegotiation, but they are more about income than local-level dabbling.
If any council or iwi want to dabble in a court the court should be ignored.
You get the sense that like a lot of ideas not well thought through, any original goodwill was well and truly shot to bits as councils and local Māori, to put it bluntly, took the piss.
Well that game, thank goodness, is up.
Mike Hosking is a New Zealand television and radio broadcaster. He currently hosts The Mike Hosking Breakfast show on NewstalkZB on weekday mornings - where this article was sourced.
I would like to think the interventionist nonsense from the Waitangi Tribunal was the final straw. But the Government seem happy enough to continue to foot that bill, while ignoring pretty much everything they say.
The really important bit of the Hipkins intervention is that he has not explicitly said they will reinstate said council deals.
Why would he not have said that?
Could it possibly be because he too realises that the whole Māorification of this country has gotten wildly out of control, and not even he can bring himself to buy the inevitable fight that would be required in an election campaign if it was him vs Luxon, and one had killed said deals and one was left to defend the indefensible.
The headache Hipkins doesn’t need of course, is they aren't his deals. It's the councils that should be called out and held to account. It’s the councils who are taking the proverbial.
That is not to say the Māori caucus won't get to Hipkins. But for now, at least, he takes what most middle-of-the-road New Zealanders would perceive as a moderate, sensible stance.
And it's exactly those sorts of stances that win elections. Elections are won in the centre and the Māorification of the country is nowhere near the centre, a place the Labour Party once stood fairly solidly and fairly successfully.
Yes, the original Treaty deals have clauses for renegotiation, but they are more about income than local-level dabbling.
If any council or iwi want to dabble in a court the court should be ignored.
You get the sense that like a lot of ideas not well thought through, any original goodwill was well and truly shot to bits as councils and local Māori, to put it bluntly, took the piss.
Well that game, thank goodness, is up.
Mike Hosking is a New Zealand television and radio broadcaster. He currently hosts The Mike Hosking Breakfast show on NewstalkZB on weekday mornings - where this article was sourced.
11 comments:
This country, called New Zealand, will never move forward while governments pander to part-Maori activists and the Waitangi Tribunal. It is a non-stop gravy train of taxpayers' money, taken under duress by Treasury, being used to appease this worthless group.
It is long past time that the Waitangi Tribunal was abolished, race-based legislation repealed, and a government installed that kept its word that we are all one peoples (New Zealanders) with one law for all. Without that commitment being implemented we are left with deceit, undrehandedness, and divisiveness. And all we hear are people complaining that New Zealand is nothing like it used to beL it had a high standard but low cost of living. Now it is going further backwards each year -- productivity is falling and GDP per capita with it. No money for essential services but hundreds of millions to available to keep the gravy train running. Perhaps New Zealand parliament now has the lowest average IQ of any country in the OECD.
Would Hipkins do better to go dredging the washouts from other parties for new Labour candidates? If only there was a precedent he could look to this week.
Mike, it is National who have created this monster.
The real story is, all the hidden deals with Maori, mostly by National since the early days of the Bolger government, of money and powers and rights over and above everyone else, continued by the Key government, and further supercharged by the Ardern government is now becoming impossible to hide.
The buck is coming to a screeching halt on Luxon's desk, his polling is living proof and that of his party. The public are starting to notice such enshrined things as democracy are fading away, almost weekly information is starting to surface of corruption and extortion shakedowns on companies trying to expand or develop, but such extortion (in any other country), virtually legislated to exist in the broken corrupted Resource Management Act. And how that surely has stopped overseas and internal investment in NZ.
And all of this information in spite of the legacy media firmly refusing to report on any of this.
Do not think for a minute that well funded tax havens like Maori tribes and the associated elites are going away. National gave them a licence to do what they've been doing. The only difference is the light is slowly being turned on this filthy mess and we, Joe Average, are seeing cockroaches everywhere and wondering what the bloody hell happened. Because it's so blatant, it cannot be hidden any longer.
Tell all iwi to pay back the treaty deals and repay all of the money they were given. We have all been subjected to a giant scam. If it were real, then why haven't iwi removed themsellves from society and gone back to building pa's and living off the land. Oh no, they quite like the flash cars and electricity and western clothing and colonist comforts, whole claiming it has made them all victims. Politicians should have the guts to say, bog off, we are all equal citozens here, go crying to the UN all you like. If you don't like equality move somewhere else.
I don't want to burst your bubble Mike, but the "Maori Caucus" runs Labour. End of story. Co-governance here we come if these turkeys are voted in.
Hipkins just calls everyone racist now and it works with his side of the fence. Soon as someone says something that does not fit the narratives call them racist so the debate goes off track into denials of being racist. Old trick.
I'd respectfully suggest that the only 'crack' hipkins has left, has his cheeks either side of it.
And he himself sits firmly in between them.
Ameni
Agree with Pete 7.45AM. I'd add a jail term for Finlayson on any trumped up charge we could manage, that would be no less egregious than his traitorous actions.
Wow anon 11.06am. They are big threats. Let's hope you know what you are talking about. If so do explain.
If you leveled such accusations at me I would have you in court. Let's hope Finlayson et al don't read your comments.
Racists have done well, they can now say “Hipkins calls everyone a racist” and then happily carry on with their racisting. It doesn’t make them any less racist.
To me, Maori money grabbing built into their pysche of having been screwed (monetarily) by History--whether true or not. (Actually, mostly not true). Today hard to find a Maori academic who will do anything gratis (as most academics do). Maori want taxi chits to travel one km to give a 50 min talk (paid of course) in which they might just show a DVD or spend most of the talk reciting family stories. Truly embarrassing to other academics. Or maybe I'm the sucker for doing so much gratis the past 30 years. It's like the doctors who take fancy trips paid for by drug companies. Such behavior far beneath most doctors with principles.
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