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Showing posts with label Co-governace. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Co-governace. Show all posts
Sunday, February 9, 2025

John Porter: National and Co-Governance

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How many of us, on the evening of Saturday, 14 October 2023, exuberantly thought that co-governance was, if not quite dead and buried, was d...
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Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Reynold Macpherson: Why Rotorua district does not have 50-50 co-governance

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Between 2013 and 2023,  Rotorua Lakes Council  was  prevented by Parliament and law from adopting a 50/50 co-governance  model . In my view ...
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Wednesday, June 26, 2024

David Lillis: The Tertiary Education Union and Political Activism

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About the Tertiary Education Union According to its own website, the Tertiary Education Union (TEU) was established in 2009 through amalgama...
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Thursday, March 7, 2024

NZCPR Newsletter: Moratorium on Coastal Claims

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It is now 100 days since Christopher Luxon’s new Government was formed. Significant progress has been made in fulfilling Coalition pledges t...
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Saturday, September 16, 2023

Bruce Moon: Charlie Martin and the Bigger Issues

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“Oh, what a tangled web we  weave when first we practice to deceive” -   Sir Walter Scott As I read between the lines …. Charlie Martin,...
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Friday, September 1, 2023

Henry Armstrong: New Zealand is in a Democratic Shambles – but who is listening?

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The Cambridge Dictionary defines democracy as “The belief in freedom and equality between people or a system of government based on this bel...
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Friday, August 11, 2023

John Robinson: A message to demonstrators

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For many years a proposal to divide New Zealand into two people, in direct opposition to the early call that “Now we are one people”, has be...
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Wednesday, June 21, 2023

Barrie Davis: The Doctrine of Discovery Essay

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In recent years, a previously little-known principle called the Doctrine of Discovery from the Age of Discovery has been added to Maori grie...
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Monday, May 22, 2023

John Robinson: A call for freedom of speech

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To the leaders of the National, ACT and New Zealand First Parties In 1940, as World War Two was raging, W H Auden voiced his despair and ...
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Tuesday, March 7, 2023

Mary-Louise Kearney: Co-governance - "It’s the veto issue, stupid”

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(With apologies to James Carville, 1992 Democratic Campaign) Have you noticed how rarely any co-governance discussion mentions or analyses t...
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Thursday, February 2, 2023

NZCPR Newsletter: A Test of Strength

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New Zealand’s new Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has had a dream start. Uncontested for the leadership, he was then thrust into centre stage b...
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Monday, January 9, 2023

Gerry Eckhoff: Colonisation

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The history of the world is one of conquest and colonisation, usually by force of arms.  From the time of the Egyptian and Persian empires t...
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Saturday, December 24, 2022

John Robinson: Escape the guilt trap - who really broke the Treaty?

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Three Waters and separate government: the elephant in the room Many councils have spoken out against the Three Waters proposal, with most ...
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Wednesday, December 14, 2022

David Lillis: Another Comment on the Media, Education and Co-Governance

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Another Characteristic Media Piece Recently I was motivated to write a piece on the media and co-governance (Lillis, 2022). I expressed th...
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Monday, December 5, 2022

NZCPR Newsletter: Who is Actually Running the Country?

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The escalating controversy over Three Waters – and an increasing realisation that the Prime Minister and senior members of Cabinet do not re...
Sunday, December 4, 2022

David Lillis: The Media and Co-Governance

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A Characteristic Media Piece New Zealand is on a difficult path - one of advantaging a small minority on the basis of genetics or self-rep...
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Sunday, June 26, 2022

NZCPR Newsletter: The Revolution Within

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“The liberty of a democracy is not safe if private power becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ...
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Thursday, June 2, 2022

NZCPR Newsletter: The Danger of Co-Governance

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In 2006, the former US President Barack Obama, then a Senator, used a  speech  at the University of Nairobi to rail against tribalism: “Ethn...
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Monday, May 9, 2022

NZCPR Newsletter: The Toxic Co-Governance Agenda

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The   Rotorua District Council (Representation Arrangements) Bill  is dead – and long may it stay that way. The Bill attempted to   introduc...
Thursday, May 5, 2022

Graeme Reeves: Cooke on Partnership Treaty of Waitangi

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Co–Governance is predicated on the assumption that the Treaty of Waitangi created an equal Partnership between Maori and the Crown. Is tha...
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