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Showing posts with label John Robinson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Robinson. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 28, 2024

Roger Childs: Book Review - Who Really Broke the Treaty?

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This movement ( kotahitanga /mana motuhake)  to break up the country, moving towards a new form of ‘indigenous’ apartheid, is spearheaded by...
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Monday, May 13, 2024

Mike Butler: Who really broke the treaty?

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It wasn’t the Crown that repeatedly broke the Treaty of Waitangi, and $4.3-billion has been paid to “settle” grievances that had been fabr...
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Wednesday, September 27, 2023

John Robinson: On Kapiti Coast DC’s ideas for having a Maori ward

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Opposed I want to live in a community where I am the equal of my neighbours. Where we all belong because it is our land, and we are one peo...
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Sunday, January 8, 2023

John Robinson: The road to New Zealand Apartheid

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Second class citizens, subservient to a tribal elite When one chosen few, one group, are dominant and take control and power, others are red...
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Tuesday, December 20, 2022

John Robinson: Escaping 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 fo...
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Friday, November 25, 2022

Rob Paterson: Regaining a nation; equality and democracy

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This is yet another excellent effort by John Robinson, following on from his recent noteworthy books on culture and recent developments in N...
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Thursday, November 3, 2022

John Robinson: A constitution enshrining racial apartheid in NZ is coming

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There is a move afoot to rewrite the basic constitution of New Zealand, unsurprisingly to set in place racism and apartheid. A meeting has b...
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Thursday, October 13, 2022

Roger Childs: ‘Regaining a Nation - equality and democracy’

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It is … rare that someone who openly comes from the left side of the political spectrum, will produce historical analysis and conclusions th...
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Sunday, October 2, 2022

Mike Butler: How to regain our nation

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There is a new madness afoot. A determined race-based minority within the Maori community is seizing control of the country while most oth...
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Sunday, August 21, 2022

John Robinson: More division, more power to tangata whenua

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We have all received a notice about “Proposed Plan Change 2 to the Operative Kapiti Coast District Plan 2021”. This includes a seemingly in...
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Monday, May 30, 2022

Roger Childs: ‘The Kohimarama Conference 1860’

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When the Governor came here, he brought with him the Word of God by which we live; and it is, through the teaching of that Word, that we are...
Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Mike Butler: Hidden slaughter revealed

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Unrestrained slaughter – The Maori Musket Wars 1800-1840 is a brief account of a gruesome chapter in New Zealand history in which Maori ...
Sunday, November 3, 2019

Mike Butler: Tikanga weaponised

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“Tikanga”, which is generally defined as “Maori custom”, is being introduced in New Zealand, setting behaviour rules for everyone not jus...
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Sunday, September 16, 2018

Mike Butler: Gate Pa and the need to look ahead

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Gate Pa and Te Ranga – the full story seeks to put fighting that took place in Tauranga in 1864 within a wide historical narrative that ...
Monday, December 11, 2017

John Robinson: Open Letter To The Treaty Minister

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To Andrew Little: Minister for Treaty Settlements I have worked on gathering information on Treaty issues, as a consultant for the Tr...
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Thursday, December 17, 2015

John Robinson: Maori rebellion and New Zealand wars

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The call for a national day to mark the New Zealand wars has been backed by claims that the wars of rebellion against the national gover...
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Monday, January 13, 2014

John Robinson: Killing rewards rubber stamped

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A truly bizarre Treaty settlement Bill which is moving inexorably through parliament provides Wellington region tribe Ngati Toa with a wi...
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Sunday, August 18, 2013

Mike Butler: Its biculturalism as usual at TPK

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Governments with their different policies come and go but policies that further partnership, protection, consultation, and compensation f...
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Sunday, February 24, 2013

Mike Butler: Dodgy deals and the twisted treaty

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Did John Key do a deal with the Maori Party involving repeal of the Foreshore and Seabed Act 2004 before the 2008 election and not breathe ...
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Sunday, August 5, 2012

Mike Butler: Freethinker faults treaty fictions

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The somewhat bland title “When two cultures meet, the New Zealand experience” camouflages a book that rips apart the treaty orthodoxy that h...
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