Geoff Parker: From shelter to sovereignty?

K Gurunathan’s recent Post column praises marae for their role during recent North Island storms and condemns critics of Māori governance arrangements. What it avoids, however, is the uncomfortable but necessary distinction between community charity and political authority.

No one disputes that many marae opened their doors during emergencies, offering shelter, food, and care — just as churches, schools, clubs, and private citizens routinely do in times of crisis. Decency in an emergency is not unique to any culture, nor does it confer constitutional status.

Roger Childs: More nonsense from the former Kapiti Mayor

Highly inaccurate pro-Maori advocacy penned by Gurunathan for the Stuffers

The previous Kapiti District Mayor has taken up the mantle of Stuffer Joel Maxwell in writing dishonest pro-Maori articles for The Post and other Stuff papers.

“In What Maori need more than their own Parliament is a Maori Economy” (The Post Monday 10 June 2024), Guru promotes Catherine Comyn’s book The Financial Colonisation of Aotearoa. (In pre-colonial times the Natives never had a concept of New Zealand as one nation, and the Maori never had called the country Aotearoa until the late 20th century.)