John Robertson: Erica Stanford Isn’t Just Wrong - She’s Dangerous

Erica Stanford’s Love Affair with Co-Governance Is a National Tragedy for New Zealand.

Let’s stop pretending. Erica Stanford isn’t the Minister of Education anymore — she’s the High Priestess of Apartheid Theology, chanting karakia over the corpse of secular democracy while Parliament claps like hypnotized cultists.

Yes, the latest mutation of the Education and Training Amendment Bill (No. 2) is here, and it stinks of something ancient and authoritarian. Not Māori culture — something far worse: racial theology weaponized through law.

Dr James Kierstead: How to put teeth in the bill

At midnight last night, submissions closed on the Education and Training Amendment Bill (No. 2). The bill would introduce new measures to protect academic freedom, which is defined in the Education and Training Act as ‘the freedom of academic staff and students, within the law, to question and test received wisdom, to put forward new ideas, and to state controversial or unpopular opinions.’