Point of Order: Buzz from the Beehive - 5/2/25

Millions beings spent on Waitangi mollifiers? That’s what it looks like, but Shane Jones threatens to take some back

Somewhat like the three wise men bringing gifts to the Baby Jesus, government ministers have been dishing out good news to please – and/or appease – the pilgrims who have flocked to the birthplace of The Treaty to commemorate Waitangi Day.

One point of difference: it took several ministers to bring the glad tidings.

Chris Lynch: New Zealand unemployment rises to 5.1 percent, highest since 2020

New Zealand unemployment continued to rise, reaching 5.1 percent in the December 2024 quarter, according to new data from Stats NZ. This marks the highest unemployment rate since the September 2020 quarter, when it was 5.2 percent.

Stats NZ’s Household Labour Force Survey showed that unemployment increased by 33,000 over the past year, bringing the total number of unemployed people to 156,000.

Sir Bob Jones: Maori nonsense

Recently The Herald reported the recovery at Massey University’s Wildbase Hospital, of a kiwi that had been hit by a car.

What got to me was the advice from the DOC biodiversity officer that the kiwi’s name “Tairei”, had been gifted to it by a maori outfit.

That’s world-class bullshit and a frequent occurrence. To gift something one must own it. No-one owns language.

Eliora: We Are Only a Number to Luxon

National ought to realise there was more than enough dehumanisation under Ardern’s Labour Government.

In Aotearoa (the new name for New Zealand being imposed on Kiwis by Ardern and others), it’s ironical: a mountain becomes a human being at the same time National voters are dehumanised and their rights are ignored. National ought to realise there was more than enough dehumanisation under Ardern’s Labour Government. But they don’t care.

Professor Robert MacCulloch: Nicola Willis, as the New Minister of Economic Growth....

Nicola Willis, as the New Minister of Economic Growth, may as well be Monty Python's Minister of Silly Walks

The article below of mine was published in the NZ Herald yesterday. Finance Minister Nicola Willis immediately complained, saying that although she is the "Minister of Economic Growth", there is no "Ministry of Economic Growth", to which the Herald article referred. Her complaint makes the article's argument stronger. Namely that her new title is a marketing-PR-comms gimmick designed to mislead the NZ public, with nothing behind it:

Mike's Minute: You won't believe it - the union is right

Buckle up, it looks like I might agree with a trade union.

CTU policy director Craig Renney is worried about the same thing I am, and I think he is right to be worried.

What he is worried about is the possibility that we will become a net exporter of population.

John Robertson: New Zealand’s Dirty Little Secret - Apartheid In The 21st Century

New Zealand has a dirty little secret, and it’s time we stop pretending otherwise. We have apartheid. Plain and simple. One racial group—out of 260-plus ethnicities in this country—is handed a separate set of laws, privileges, and political power while the rest of us are expected to shut up and pay for it.

Breaking Views Update: Week of 2.2.25

Wednesday February 5, 2025 

News:
Janet Dickson case: Requirement to make Māori tikanga course mandatory for real estate agents ruled valid by High Court
Janet Dickson, the real estate agent facing a five-year ban for refusing to do a Māori tikanga course, has lost a court bid to block the threatened cancellation of her licence.

Today, the High Court turned down her request for a judicial review of decisions about agents’ professional development requirements, which required her to take a 90-minute course called Te Kākano (The Seed).

DTNZ: Mexico deploys 10,000 troops to U.S. border in exchange for tariff delay

Mexico has agreed to send 10,000 troops to its northern border in exchange for a one-month pause on tariffs threatened by former U.S. President Donald Trump, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced.

Brendan O'Neill: How Western governments are funding the persecution of Jews

We know UNRWA has intimate links with Hamas, so why are we giving it money?

The British government helped to fund the persecution of a British Jew. That’s the takeaway from Emily Damari’s revelation that she was held in an UNRWA facility for some of the hellish time she spent in Hamas captivity. Keir Starmer’s Labour government pumps millions of pounds into UNRWA.

Kerre Woodham: Taxation is a finely balanced thing

We know times are tough. We know that we're in a period of rebuilding, we know that there are green shoots starting to come through. We're looking towards the end of 2025 as a time when things will turn around, when things will start to improve, and things will start to get better on a micro level in our own households, and on a macro level when it comes to the government.

Professor Robert MacCulloch: You can't have investment without savings.

NZ's National Income Accounts Prove the PM's Maths Does not Add up and his economic "strategy" will fail. You can't have investment without savings.

PM Luxon has made "economic growth" his sole objective in 2025, having spent his first year in office arguing about how he supports, and at the same time doesn't support, ACT's Treaty Principle's Bill. How is he going to increase economic growth?

Mike's Minute: Is it time we pull out of Paris?

We adjusted our climate target, or one of our climate targets last week.

Which in and of itself is part of the whole climate debate malaise. There are so many targets involving Paris, or not involving Paris, or timelines.

Tuesday February 4, 2025 

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Point of Order: Buzz from the Beehive 4/2/25

Climate change minister froze out farm leaders – but (is he a closet greenie?) warmed to Greenpeace and WWF lobbyists

Your monitors of the Beehive website can tell you what ministers are up to so long as they post a press statement. They can’t tell you what ministers have been doing which they shouldn’t have been doing, if they keep quiet about it. And they can’t tell you what minister haven’t been doing that they should have been doing.

Sandra Goudie Destroys Biased and Racist Committee MPs

Sandra in her TPB oral submission presents significant supporting evidence. She is one of the most factually correct, and informative submitters to date.

The subsequent behaviour of Green MP Tamatha Paul, and Te Pāti Māori MP Rawiri Waititi, is racist and disgraceful.

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DTNZ: DIA blows nearly $1 million on ‘change agent’ workshops

The New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union has uncovered another case of government waste, revealing that the Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) spent close to $950,000 on workshops designed to turn public servants into “change agents” by “connecting through indigenous wisdom.”

Dr Bryce Wilkinson: Property, liberty, transparency - the principled basis for the Regulatory Standards Bill

If you believe some of its critics, the pending Regulatory Standards Bill is a demonic measure to end New Zealand society as we know it. This is beyond false; it is ridiculous.

In fact, it is a modest transparency measure. It will better inform the public about laws and regulations likely to make New Zealanders worse off. It will not otherwise stop anything.

Geoff Parker: Are you giving up on our country?

The biggest advantage Māori separatists and the collusive New Zealand Government have is the apathy, ignorance, and tolerance of New Zealanders. The absurdity is that we taxpayers are actually footing the bill for the overthrow of our own country.

A small but determined group of elite Māori leaders are quietly winning the battle for control of New Zealand. Their success has been driven by:

Ian Bradford: 50 Years of Settlements Using a Fake Treaty

Captain William Hobson was sent to NZ to form a treaty with the natives. The Maori requested it because they were sick of the killing of each other, slavery and cannibalism. They were also afraid of the French. 

The Treaty was prepared with the co-operation of James Busby, J.R. Clendon and two missionaries, Henry Williams and A Brown.  Brown did not seem to have any input.