John McLean: Woke Entrenchment

Mechanisms of ideological Identitarian societal capture…complete with a case study

I’ve written screeds on how Woke/Critical Social Justice/Identitarianism/Neo-Marxism/Post-Modernism – call “it” what you will - has been entrenched in New Zealand society.

Pee Kay: Are these two......

the biggest threats to the continuance of democracy in New Zealand?

Graeme Spencer: New Zealand Once Produced World Class Achievers......

New Zealand Once Produced World Class Achievers - Now We Can’t Keep Kids In Class 

It’s remarkable, isn’t it?

New Zealand, somehow produced world-leading scientists, engineers, explorers, aviators, and athletes - all before schools were required to open every lesson with ceremonial chanting and a Treaty compliance checklist.

JC: We Are Well and Truly ‘Browned’ Off

The more the discontent with this government by its supporters grows, the more it seems the government is determined to show us the middle finger. Much of the issue surrounds the ‘Māorification’ of this country because what they promised they would do is not what they are in fact doing. It would appear that they are taking every opportunity to find pathways to incorporate a Māori perspective into legislation on any flimsy pretext.

Bob Edlin: Sean Plunket breaks news of Fire & Emergency Services’ new Kaupapa Māori Proposal

Breaking Views has posted news of a broadcast by Sean Plunket at The Platform which was triggered by information he had received about a new Kaupapa Maori Proposal at Fire And Emergency New Zealand.

The information was dropped into him anonymously.

Barrie Davis: A Referendum to Save New Zealand’s Parliament

For parliament to allow a particular race to have extraordinary exclusive power is undemocratic and racist. To allow a clown in a cowboy hat to subvert our House of Representatives and say he will set up an alternative parliament is submissive and ineffectual. If Mr Luxon agreed to drafting a Treaty Principles Bill so that he may become Prime Minister and then did not support it, that would be unprincipled and cynical.

We are to have the opportunity to make submissions regarding the Treaty Principles Bill. But that seems pointless if it does not subsequently proceed, although it would make clear the disrespect that our Parliament has for us. I figure that if I do not make a submission, the government will use that as an excuse to say that we were not really interested. So I’m going to take the opportunity to tell them what I think, then and now.

Mike's Minute: Two areas where the Government might have trouble

There are two areas where the Government has, or might have, trouble.

As a result of their first 100 days you get the summation, the round up, how they did and so on.

Forget the policy and whether you like it - what they have going for them is twofold, for at least the first term.

Mike Hosking: Three Waters has been lost amongst the rest of the mess

Is a divisive issue still an issue if people don’t talk about it the way they once did?

The Three Waters legislation was passed yesterday under urgency - at one point this was the biggest game in town.

Many were aghast at what the Government was trying to do. They saw this as a massive overreach in terms of the Māori-fication of the New Zealand landscape.

Peter Williams: Otago University rebrands - but why?

Otago University was founded by Scottish Presbyterians Thomas Burns and James MacAndrew in 1869.

It was New Zealand’s first university. It is justifiably proud of its heritage and its history.

But it’s in deep financial trouble. It has a 60 million dollar funding hole, staff are being threatened with losing their jobs and student numbers are decreasing.

But for some reason it’s decided to push ahead with a rebranding which will include a new logo, and new Māori name.

Mike Hosking: Why has the government brought Three Waters back?

If you haven't caught up, Three Waters is back.

That surprises me to a degree, given the trouble the Government has had with Three Waters, the problems they have in the polls and the trouble they dug themselves into last week over race issues in health.

Just to recap - when the Prime Minister became the Prime Minister he tossed a bunch of stuff out, or on the bonfire. But one of them wasn’t Three Waters.

Michael Bassett: Labour sows the wind, and reaps the whirlwind

Sowing the winds of racial tension in New Zealand began decades ago under careless governments. Now we are starting to reap the whirlwind. Maori aristocrats have built up such a sense of entitlement, with a cornucopia of fabrications and grievances, that they are starting to fall out over how rapidly they can clap on the pace of the gravy train. Meka Whaitiri’s desertion of the Labour Party is the latest sign that radicals are at sixes and sevens over pushing even harder for a Maori take-over of New Zealand.

Michael Bassett: The crisis in Maori society

In January when Chris Hipkins took over as Prime Minister he promised a policy reset. Everyone waited patiently, and when the announcement came, quite a few were prepared to think we really did have a new Labour government. Nanaia Mahuta’s obsession with Three Waters was scaled back, she was stripped of the Local Government portfolio, demoted almost to the bottom of the Cabinet, and encouraged to stay off-shore as long as possible, tending to her Foreign Affairs portfolio. The Prime Minister promised to be clearer about the detail and the reasoning behind co-governance. Again, many believed that Hipkins was back-peddling on the hectic rush since the 2020 election to Maorify everything in sight from departmental titles, to geographical names, to road speed limits, to tried and tested methods of governance. There was an air of expectation.

John Robinson: The road to New Zealand Apartheid

Second class citizens, subservient to a tribal elite

When one chosen few, one group, are dominant and take control and power, others are reduced, to become lesser citizens. New Zealand is that place, steaming down a road of division, divided by law into Maori (the ‘indigenous’) and the others. The great majority, lacking some drop of Maori blood, are second-class, subservient. That assumption of superiority is accompanied by the arrogance and bullying behaviour often found in upper classes.

There is no respect, no ‘aroha’, no belonging together; we are not one people.

The sense of belonging to a united, decent country is gone. There is nothing more precious to a people, and a nation, than the common belief of all that we are equal, that we each and everyone belong here, that this land is our land – along with all the commons, the lakes, rivers and beaches, the bush, the mountains and the sea. But that sense of belonging, which is essential to the good life – for us all, for every individual no matter what their background – has been stolen by an arrogant and greedy tribal minority.

Chris Trotter: Sounds of Silence.

A sign of the times every bit as telling as Paula Penfold’s shock at anti-vaxxers’ hatred for the mainstream media. That the folk who once cried “Hands off National Radio!” have greeted the imminent demise of Radio New Zealand with … silence. The folding of Radio New Zealand and Television New Zealand into “Aotearoa New Zealand Public Media” (ANZPM) an “autonomous Crown entity”, is supposed to be complete by 1 March 2023. This, the end of one era in New Zealand broadcasting, and the beginning of another, has so far been met with widespread public indifference.