Mike Butler: The long march to tribal control

NZCPR has published a number of articles on New Zealand’s “the long march through the institutions", the non-violent path to achieve Marxist revolution. This article, which is a bit of a long read, looks at the nuts and bolts of how the strategy has been applied here and gives an evaluation of where we are at.

The long march is a political strategy that seeks to create radical social change by infiltrating and subverting the core organizations of a society rather than using violent revolution. The strategy is accomplished by:

Pee Kay: “…equal treatment is deemed discrimination”

2026 finds New Zealand standing at a critical political and social intersection.

The path a future New Zealand takes, will in some part, likely be decided at the ballot box on November 7th and will most probably be central to heated and continued constitutional discussion and argument into the late 2020s!

With a population of 5.3 million New Zealand is wrestling with a fragile economy and a constitutional and an identity crisis. If our country is to ever secure a prosperous future, surely it is now time to turn away from the politically imposed obstructions of co-governance, partnership and the movement towards Maori sovereignty.

Pee Kay: Equal Rights is Being Quietly Euthanised

Last week, I pulled back the curtain exposing a small fraction of the financial reality of Māori privilege. Today I’m endeavouring to follow the trail to the very source of the decay. Today I’m looking at the systemic foundations that sustain Maori privilege.

New Zealand isn’t just drifting toward a two-tier society, I say we’ve already arrived!

While we go about our daily lives, a quiet revolution is being engineered by the very people sworn to represent us. This isn’t a conspiracy; Oh no, it’s a co-ordinated march toward tribal rule, led by politicians and protected by a shield of complicit media, elite academics, and bureaucratic “gatekeepers.”

Pee Kay: The Man Who Refuses to Confront He Puapua

Sometime in, probably late October this year we will returning to polling stations all around the country with hope, doubt, confusion and very probably frustration as some of the emotions we carry to the voting booth!

Many of us thought the 2023 election was the most important election of a generation. Co-governance, 3 Waters, Maori Sovereignty, Covid and the state of the economy were all playing a part in further widening the ethnic rift that had been created and cultivated by the 7th Labour government of Ardern and Hipkins.

Pee Kay: Wishful Thinking

Welcome to 2026!

Have you made your New Years resolutions, made plans and set goals for 2026?

Well done if you have.

Pee Kay: To Educate or To Indoctrinate?

Surely that must be the question headmasters, teachers, education unions and school boards of trustees must have asked themselves upon being notified by the Minister of Education of the government’s decision to remove the requirement for school boards to give effect to the Treaty of Waitangi.

By reading the responses by the New Zealand Principals’ Federation, the NZ Educational Institute (teachers and principals union) and the New Zealand School Boards Association, it is obvious to everyone that, yes, they did ask themselves that question but the answer they arrived at did not fall on the side of “to educate”, no, no!

They very clearly see their role is to INDOCTRINATE!

Ani O'Brien: The path to the balkanisation of New Zealand

A requested explainer on what I mean by this

The Spinoff published a piece this week by Eru Kapa-Kingi titled “Mana over Money: The Need for Ngāpuhi Tiriti Justice.” On the surface, it looks like a heartfelt plea for fairness and this is certainly how the mainstream media will be content to frame it, if they ever get around to reporting on the radicalisation of Parliament’s smallest party. But read closely and it becomes clear this is not just about grievance redress. It is a call to reshape New Zealand’s constitutional order, to carve out areas of separate governance, and to take steps toward a future where Māori and non-Māori live under completely separate systems.

Michael Laws on the incompatibility of human rights and Māori sovereignty.

On The Platform, Michael discusses Auckland Law School Associate Professor Andrew Erueti's new research, Indigenous Rights Beyond the Liberal Frame, explores how governments use the language of "equalit", "non-discrimination" and "one law for all" to resist Māori authority and constitutional transformation.


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Barrie Davis: Principle of Sovereignty Proposition

I expect Breaking Views readers are alarmed at the reason Richard Prebble gave for his resignation from the Waitangi Tribunal. After reading the Tribunal’s restricted ten-year strategic plan, he understood that the Tribunal will pursue economic equality for Maoris. Prebble claimed that is an impossible socialist objective which will result in endless claims to the Tribunal. He also claimed that its judges and members are turning the Tribunal into a constitutional court answerable to no one.

JD: All of Us Are Equal

Guest post on The Good Oil by JD

The challenge now is for the silent majority to stand up and display their support for proper equality in NZ.

Not being Māori myself but having married into NZ society I find the great majority of my closest relatives are. A diverse bunch, they lay claim to varying degrees of ethnicity, ranging from my partner who traces unadulterated Māori ancestry back for several generations to those at the other end of the spectrum whose claim seems based on little more than their grandmother having once passed a Māori in the street.

Peter Williams: Luxon Misses the Mark

Why doesn't he like the Treaty Principles Bill?

The Prime Minister’s statement at his Monday media conference this week was quite staggering.

In response to a question from The Platform’s Sean Plunket, Christopher Luxon said about the Treaty Principles Bill “there isn’t anything I like.”

Read the Bill and then consider Luxon’s statement.

John Porter: Equity is a Stalking Horse

In 1975, the expression Global Warming first appeared in the title of an influential scientific paper. “Are We on the Brink of a Pronounced Global Warming?” The IPCC regularly used the terminology Global Warming to describe changes in the average temperatures on Earth. But they found that term became too alienating, divisive and had become very politicised and was easily countered with fact based scientific evidence.

Hence, we witnessed the change in terminology to Climate Change. A much more dispassionate, equable and all-embracing, acceptable term. 

NZCPR Newsletter: The Battle for Democracy

In November 2000, former Prime Minister David Lange stated: 

“Democratic government can accommodate Maori political aspiration in many ways… What it cannot do is acknowledge the existence of a separate sovereignty. As soon as it does that, it isn’t a democracy. We can have a democratic form of government or we can have indigenous sovereignty. They can’t coexist and we can’t have them both.”

He specifically warned about the Treaty of Waitangi: 

“The treaty is a wonderful stick for activists to beat the rest of us with.” He described it as “a source of alternative authority - the basis of a self-perpetuating industry in academic and legal circles” and he made the point that “many on the left of politics who sympathise with Maori aspiration have identified with the cause of the treaty, either not knowing or not caring that its implications are profoundly undemocratic.”

John Porter: Should Maori Have Sovereignty Over New Zealand?

Hello, it’s John Porter on Bay FM and today I’m asking: Do you agree that Maori should have sovereignty over New Zealand?

Because that is the publicly proclaimed agenda and goal of Maori activists, leaders and their separatist supporters.

Find that unbelievable? Well, look at what Maori separatists have achieved so far, all under the guise of co-governance!

Chris Trotter: Losing the Working Class

I always wondered what it would take to detach the New Zealand working class from Labour. Not all of the working-class, obviously, but enough to strip the party of the demographic heft that, for more than a century, has made it a decisive electoral player. Now I know, but it took a fair few wrong guesses before I got there.

Ross Meurant: Busby’s Blunder?

Former MP Bruce Beetham QSO M Phil M A (Hons) Dip Tchg once wrote (1):

“The greatest political danger for Māori incorrectly promoting the notion of tino rangatiratanga as Māori sovereignty, is that it will strengthen the resolve of those who want to see NZ turned into a republic.

“Any change of NZ from a monarchy to a republic will, despite legislation currently on the books, inevitably undermine the constitutional basis upon which such legislation rests and therefore the constitutional applicability of the Treaty itself.”

John Porter: Lest We Forget

April 25th marks the first major military action fought by Australian and New Zealand forces during World War I, at Gallipoli. New Zealand and Australia mark the anniversary each year, remembering not only those who died at Gallipoli, but all who have served their country in times of war.

The crucial consequence of the terrible events of World War I was the rescue of democracy, primarily in Europe, but also around the world.

Chris Trotter: The Revolution Has Begun.

If New Zealand's educational curriculum was dedicated to condemning capitalism and uplifting the working class, would that signal a revolution? If working-class culture was elevated above the cultural achievements of the upper and middle classes, would that signal a revolution? If representatives of the trade unions exercised a decisive influence over the editorial direction of the news media and the content of university courses, would that signal a revolution?

Of course it would.

Nearly forty years ago, as the newly-elected Fourth Labour Government was pursuing its nuclear-free agenda, organising women’s forums, and preparing to destroy the achievements of the First, Second and Third Labour Governments, a handful of young trade unionists – Labour Party members all – lobbied the then Minister of Labour, Stan Rodger, for a daily bulletin of trade union news on Radio New Zealand.

John Porter: One of the Smarter Maori Activists of Her Time!

Remember Donna Awatere-Huata?

Donna was a former ACT list MP from 1996-2003. In 2003 Awatere-Huata was expelled from the ACT party due to allegations of fraud regarding an educational charity.

In the 1970s Donna was one of the earlier activists for Maori causes becoming heavily involved in the Maori protest movement.

In 1984 Donna published Maori Sovereignty, a prominent text in the Maori protest movement.

Bruce Moon: Ngapuhi Gave Up Their “Sovereignty”- It Is False To Deny It!

Traditional Maori structure was tribal and hierarchical. Intertribal warfare was the norm. Violence was endemic.  Think of the enthusiasm with which muskets were adopted and tens of thousands of Maoris killed in the tribal Musket Wars. Think of the slaughter by Ngapuhi at Mauinaina, Te Totara and Matakitaki!  Chiefs and leaders held power as long as they were unbeaten by rivals. Those that lost, and those under their protection, suffered brutally with loss of autonomy, destruction of their lifestyle, loss of what they possessed: taonga, (goods) and other possessions, but duly guaranteed to them[i] and all New Zealanders in the Treaty. The winners of warfare on the other hand took control, enforced amongst other things by ritual executions, cannibalism, slavery, prostitution and headhunting.

To put it simply – in warfare, winner took all.