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Showing posts with label Maori issues. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Maori issues. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Steven Gaskell: Emerging Patterns of the Tribal Elite in Political Manipulation

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New Zealand prides itself on being a liberal democracy one person, one vote, equal under the law. But a concerning pattern is taking shape ...
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Monday, November 11, 2024

John Robinson: Jim Crow racism in New Zealand

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Here I consider the introduction of racism into New Zealand, the similarities with The Jim Crow laws, which were state and local laws introd...
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Tuesday, October 29, 2024

David Lillis: Respectful Relations between Science and Traditional Knowledge

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The following article was submitted to ACCESS: Contemporary Issues in Education (https://pesaagora.com/access-journal/) but was rejected. In...
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Wednesday, October 2, 2024

Barrie Davis: Global Women

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An article in the Sunday Star-Times, “Global Women adds Treaty bill to heavy workload” by Dita De Boni,  29 September ( here ) , makes two s...
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Thursday, September 5, 2024

Wayne Ryburn: The Rising Anarchy in New Zealand's Democracy. The Saga of TV1 News at Six and the BSA.

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Part One; The BSA and historical misconceptions. The rise of “Insider History” resulting in a lack of accuracy and balance in New Zealand...
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Wednesday, August 21, 2024

Barrie Davis: Behaviourism 101

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We regularly receive communications from the authorities, universities and the media which seem to be driven by an ideology of either a Maor...
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Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Karl du Fresne: Are there rorts we don't know about?

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There has long been a nagging suspicion that taxpayer-supported Maori organisations are not always held to the same standards of accoun...
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Friday, October 18, 2013

Karl du Fresne: Leave it to Maori and hope for the best

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The recent conviction of a Hawke’s Bay kaitiaki, or “guardian” of customary fisheries, makes a mockery of the word. Napier District Co...
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Friday, July 19, 2013

Chris Trotter: Thoughts on Tariana Turia’s “Whanau Ora” Programme.

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Far from being a modern and progressive social programme, Whanau Ora has been, from its very inception, an attempt to present a politicall...
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Bryce Edwards: NZ Politics Daily

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It’s been a week of debates about economics, ethnicity and inequality. The most interesting story of the week combines all three issues –...
Friday, July 12, 2013

Mike Butler: A timeline of faulty racial policy

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Mana Party leader Hone Harawira’s demand for no-deposit home loans for Maori is the latest strident demand that usually results in some...
Sunday, June 16, 2013

Michael Coote: Submission on the Auckland Unitary Plan

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May 2013 Draft Auckland Unitary Plan Feedback from an Auckland Ratepayer and Resident To whom it may concern, I write concern...
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Monday, May 13, 2013

Reuben Chapple: Gross Impudence

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“In the Kingdom of the Blind, the one-eyed man is King. And he that does not know his own history is at the mercy of every lying windbag...
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Friday, November 30, 2012

Karl du Fresne: Shafted by their own council

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So this is what it has come to. The Kapiti Coast District Council, according to today's Dominion Post , has identified 40 "sa...
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Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Karl du Fresne: Sabotage is not too strong a word

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During Maori Language Week in July, my wife and I attended a kapa haka concert followed by a hangi at our grandson’s school. It was a ...
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Sunday, September 16, 2012

Steve Baron: United we stand, divided we fall.

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As I sat in a café watching two young families from two different races enjoying each other’s company, along with what looked like a 1 year...
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Thursday, August 16, 2012

Karl du Fresne: State Radio Reports Maori Gods angry at asset sales

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Due respect for Maori culture is one thing. Expecting us to swallow wild superstition is quite another – yet I heard a reporter on Morning ...
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Saturday, April 21, 2012

Mike Butler: What Maori and non-Maori think about separate seats

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What do Maori and non-Maori think about separate seats and whether the Waitangi Tribunal should be abolished? Two polls four weeks ago gave ...
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Monday, March 26, 2012

Marc Alexander: The case against race-based rights - The Waitangi fish-hook.

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To supporters of the ever increasing cash payouts from the treaty of Waitangi grievance industry, it means racial and social justice – a mea...
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Saturday, February 25, 2012

Karl du Fresne: Maori objections cancel exhibition

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There are probably several good reasons why Lower Hutt’s Dowse Art Museum shouldn’t host an exhibition by a Mexican artist in which bubble...
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