Insights From Social Media: $2.2Million From The Maori Outcomes Gravy Train

Steven Mark Gaskell writes: Auckland Council is handing out up to $2.2 million to Te Kawerau ā Maki to help get a new marae project off the ground. The money comes from the council’s Tahua Huanga Ora Māori Outcomes Fund, which was set up under the 2018–2028 budget with $150 million allocated over ten years for Māori wellbeing and identity projects.

Insights From Social Media: Now It Gets Interestinger?

Gravedodger writes > Followers of T W Ratana a Maori Prophet who began a sect near Wanganui at what is referred to as the Ratana Pa destination for socialists who have been joined at the Hip for Labour and Ratana.

The “Pa” is the must go to celebration of T W “s birthday January 25th that sees the socialist faithfull and wannabees like Luxon trooping up to the Twin tower Ratana Church to seek to be recognised.

Insights From Social Media: It Must Be So Embarrassing Being Different

NOTE: The following article was published in June 1995, newspaper unknown.

I am glad I am not a Maori. It must be awful being a Maori. So embarrassing.

Fancy knowing that you are so dumb you need extra resources for your education, that you are not capable of becoming a nurse without special help such as being allowed to sit your tests again and again till you pass, that you need a special quota system to give you a chance of becoming a doctor or a teacher or a policeman, that you are very good at “cultural” things such as singing and dancing and flax-weaving, but absolutely hopeless at practical things and useless at business!

Insights From Social Media: A Nation Undivided

A NATION UNDIVIDED

In the shadow of 1840's solemn word,
Where chiefs and Crown once forged a single path,
We stand as one beneath the Southern Cross—
Not fractured tribes, but Kiwis born of shared resolve.

Insights From Social Media: Why The Word Aotearoa Should Be Discarded

Alfred Johns writes > Fellow New Zealanders,

I want to say about something far greater than politics. I speak about identity, history, truth, and the name of our nation — the name by which the world has known us for generations: that is “New Zealand”.

Names matter.

Insights From Social Media: We will all drown eventually?

Gravedodger writes: Not from the predictable if somewhat erratic tropical storms that today again threaten the North but from the torrent of inanity that surrounds Co Governance and Partnerships in current political thinking.

Maori are no more indigenous than my forbears who arrived by sea following the signing of the pacification document often referred to as “The Treaty” as if it is the one sole such document ever signed by a current authority here in New Zealand.

Insights From Social Media: National’s ‘Service Delivery Plan’

Re National’s ‘Service Delivery Plan’ Graeme Spencer writes.

Since the inception of the "Local Water Done Well" reforms, I have always questioned what the end game is.

Forgive my scepticism, but anything involving water reform now tends to raise the hackles. After years of "improving water quality", we’ve seen millions, possibly billions, flow steadily into consultants, strategies, delivery plans, reform programmes, governance models, transition frameworks, and then revised versions of all of the above. None of this expenditure has reached our pipes, plants, or reservoirs.

Insights From Social Media: When Did Mythology Become “history”?

Tom Henry writes > This official Hawke’s Bay Regional Council placard at Waitangi Regional Park claims to present a “rich history”. What it actually presents is a mix of legend, folklore, and real historical events — all blended together as if they are the same thing.

Insights From Social Media: Seems a bit undemocratic to me?

Politicians of most stripes go on and on about “CO GOVERNANCE”

Now I do understand how MPs duly elected, although my concept of democracy does not actually embrace List MPs selected by a Party then becoming MPs through the proportional votes cast for that Party as a valid expression of Democracy, largely due to the simple fact I as a citizen have no part in establishing that “List” for any of the half dozen or so Parties.
That accepted we are said to have a functioning democracy even though there is no way a simple majority can eliminate an individual MP and we end up with shirt lifters , paedophiles, shop lifters, alcoholics, fraudsters and the mentally deranged, sitting in a chamber of horrors legislating for all.

Insights From Social Media: Yes There Is Warming?

Gravedodger writes > However I am not convinced it is all about mans involvement in environmental impacts.

In fact if man is able to become involved in what is now termed Climate Change as opposed to Global Warming and Global cooling for reasons the fear and scare tactics involved were conforming in the Ponnzi schemes to turn weather variables into something taxable, as said before why not employ the technology supposedly causing thr climate to change to relieve droughts.

Insights From Social Media: The left's inability to laugh

Truth in Jest by Colinxy.

"Many a truth is spoken in jest"

Humour has always been one of humanity’s most subversive tools. It pierces pretence, exposes hypocrisy, and reveals uncomfortable realities in ways that solemn argument cannot. A joke can slip past defences, planting truth in the mind before ideology has time to react. Yet in our age, the Left seems uniquely incapable of laughing—especially when the joke is at their expense. They live within ideology, and ideology cannot abide ridicule. To laugh at it is to admit its fragility, and fragility is what they fear most.

Insights From Social Media: The He Puapua road map

PB adds to Geoff Parker’s post (bolding emphasis added):

What Waatea News is producing here is not analysis of 2025. It is a maintenance narrative — a story designed to protect institutional arrangements at the point they are being democratically wound back.

The structure is familiar and closely follows the He Puapua road map, as articulated by Claire Charters and advanced in practice by Lady Tureiti Moxon.

Insights From Social Media: Dame Anne Salmond.....

Dame Anne Salmond - Leading the Charge of New Zealand Romantic Thinking - by Colinxy

The Romantic Cloak

Few figures embody the Romantic impulse in New Zealand’s intellectual life more vividly than Dame Anne Salmond. Her writings, media appearances, and social media engagements reveal a deep commitment to cultural relativism and poststructuralist thought. She venerates the theorists of fragmentation and ambiguity, and in doing so, positions herself as a defender of what is known as the “Noble Savage.” Within this framework, behaviours that might otherwise be condemned are excused if they emerge from her preferred cultural narrative, while anything associated with European ancestry is treated with suspicion—except, of course, when it comes to herself and her academic circle.

Insights From Social Media: Compulsory Tikanga In Law School - When Cultural Ideology Replaces Legal Education

Tom Henry re-writes > New Zealand’s law schools have been re-engineered. All law students must pass a dedicated course on Tikanga Māori as a core component of their law degree to meet the requirements for legal practice. Advocates call it progress, a justice system “reflecting us all.” In reality, it’s an ideological project packaged as reform.

Tikanga Isn’t a Legal System — And Never Was.

Insights From Social Media: No chance in hell?

Gravedodger writes > Some of the more moronic are talking about New Zealand having a Rock Star Economy again.

The last time this Nation was being suggested as involved with such nonsense it was as good as a stadium of the naive thinking they are being entertained by some aging guitar plucking has been.

Insights From Social Media: Maori - An entire money driven industry

Stuart Bennett Clarke writes > The debate surrounding the endless demands and complaints of so-called Maori are all utterly Fallacious and pointless…

These people do not exist. It's a giant con job and a scam.

Maori is merely a name for an outlook and a lifestyle ONLY. ALL other political considerations are a preposterous farce.

Insights From Social Media: A Nation Built by Grit Is Being Run by Fragility

Stuart Bennett Clarke Writes > New Zealand’s success was never an accident. It emerged from a very specific cultural framework — one built on reason, industry, personal responsibility, and an unwavering belief in objective truth. For more than a century, these foundations enabled a small, remote nation to punch far above its weight, producing world-class scientists, engineers, explorers, aviators, and athletes. Today, those foundations have been progressively dismantled and replaced with a new ideology that prioritises feelings over facts and symbolism over substance — and New Zealand is paying the price.

Insights From Social Media: When the Story Doesn’t Match the Truth

Roger Strong writes > This is the headline in today’s weekend POST newspaper ‘Crumbs From The White Man’s Table : The story of the Ngai Tahu deeds' – a full page article coming from Ngai Tahu Itself and the then there is this paragraph - ‘The relationship between the Crown and the iwi was established by the Treaty of Waitangi. It did not take long to be breached. The first step in the slow process that was Te Kerēme was taken in 1849, a mere nine years after the Treaty signing. A solution took nearly 150 more years, before the iwi signed the deed of settlement with the Crown in 1997'.

So we have an article that mixes up half-truths with outright lies and contains countless lies by omission-the things not mentioned (deliberately surely) that perpetuate even more lies.

Insights From Social Media: Tribalism

Bryan Mitchell writes > Interesting, but what it should reveal about the modern 'tribal' aspect of claims, is that they are not individual. If people looked history in the UK, and take Scotland as the example because it was the last tribal based society in the UK. It's the land owners and controllers that have the wealth and influence. The Lairds that once were clan chiefs who gained control of the clan lands and assets, not the ordinary clan (tribal) members. Apply that to our circumstances and because the government has dealt with tribal entities instead of individuals the same inequity as happened in Scotland is being applied here.

Insights From Social Media: 22 Mendacious Modern Part-Maori Myths

From the archives of 1law4all 

1. The Maoris are indigenous to NZ.

Wrong. Unlike the Indians in North America and the Aborigines in Australia, who have been on their land for tens of thousands of years, gaggles of Maoris arrived in New Zealand about 1250 A.D. a mere 400 years before Abel Tasman. At Cape Reinga there is a hillock that, according to Maori lore and the accompanying sign, the spirits of dead Maoris leave from on their journey home to Hawaiki, thus showing that even the modern part-Maoris don’t believe that they are indigenous.