John McLean: The Great Gaslights

Gaslighting is a form of psychological manipulation. Gaslighters aim to make their victims doubt their own perceptions and memories, and reality itself. The term comes from the 1944 film Gaslight, in which a husband manipulates his wife into thinking she’s losing her mind by dimming their gas lights and, when she notices, denying he’s done so.

Sean Rush: Letter to the Roseneath School Board

Response to Your Letter Regarding Upholding Te Tiriti

Dear Members of the Board,

I am writing in response to your recent letter to the Government stating your intention to uphold Te Tiriti. I have been a proud resident of Roseneath since 2013, my two children were pupils at the school, I have supported the school in fundraising activities and I chaired the Roseneath Resident’s Association. I also did a term as a Wellington City Councillor. I will continue to champion the school.

Olivia Pierson: New Zealand - Unity or Apartheid?

The steady stream of revisionist gibberish coming out of Māori Party rhetoric these days is eye-watering. They never miss an opportunity to bamboozle ordinary folks with silly word salads, half of which are spoken in a tongue only 4% of New Zealanders can even understand.

Take this for example:

Ewen McQueen: The Chieftainship Rests With One – The Governor

Ewen provides further confirmation that the chiefs fully understood they were ceding full sovereignty.

After Hone Heke felled the flagstaff in 1844, a group of Chiefs meet with Governor Fitzroy at Waimate North to discuss the situation.

The transcript of the meeting gives a fascinating insight into how they understood the Treaty - WATCH THE VIDEO below).....

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Barrie Davis: Seeding Sovereignty in the Spring

A debate has recently begun between the Government and the Maoris regarding sovereignty (here). Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said that Maori had ceded sovereignty, and “the Crown is sovereign”. On the other hand, Professor Claire Charters from the University of Auckland replied that the te reo Māori version will always take precedence in the law and head lecturer Carwyn Jones from Te Wānanga o Raukawa explains the English text speaks about sovereignty going to the British Crown, but that the Māori text refers to tino rangatiratanga being guaranteed to Māori.

That debate is incoherent and unnecessary and I will explain why.

Professor Robert McCulloch: Hipkins wants NZ to fail

The Labour Party Leader's Sad Plan for NZ is a text-book copy of the UK Prime Minister's. Except there is a difference - Hipkins wants NZ to fail.

The Leader of the Labour Party, Chris Hipkins, has proved he nicely fits the joke about the dog that chases cars - what does it do when it catches a car? 

Dr Don Brash: Hipkins' Dangerous Statement on Māori Not Ceding Sovereignty

This week, Labour Party leader Chris Hipkins has stirred controversy by asserting that “Māori did not cede sovereignty” when signing the Treaty of Waitangi. According to the New Zealand Herald, Hipkins was “unequivocal” in this claim.

Hipkins stated: