Geoff Parker: National in decline

Has Prime Minister Christopher Luxon just signed the National Party’s death warrant?

According to our unreliable, biased media: “The Prime Minister says he will refuse any demand from the Act Party for a referendum on the Treaty Principles Bill after the next election – even if he needs Act to form a Government.”

With the present mood of the country calling for a referendum on the Treaty Principles Bill (TPB) and Luxon’s utterances above, I now predict a huge swing to David Seymour and ACT, it could be a swing so large that National will no longer be the go to party for sending the looney lefties to the opposition benches, in fact with National’s current pro-Maori ideology they may as well join the lefties.

Michael Bassett: Modern Maori myths

Many of the comments about the Coalition’s determination to wind back the dramatic Maorification of New Zealand of the last three years would have you believe the new government is engaged in a full-scale attack on Maori. In reality, all that is really happening is that ministers are stopping the crusade waged by the Ardern/Hipkins government to push Maori into all aspects of our lives at the expense of every other culture, while never having mentioned an intention to do so during the 2020 election campaign.

Michael Bassett: New Zealand's modern cultural cringe

Yesterday Graham Adams' column referred to Michael Bassett's now 'infamous' piece which earned him a lifetime ban from the NZ Herald. So we thought we'd give it another whirl!

A bizarre craze seems to be sweeping New Zealand right now. All things derived from Europe except our creature comforts must be set aside as we are expected to embrace all things Maori. It’s racism on a grand scale.