NZCPR Newsletter: Moratorium on Coastal Claims

It is now 100 days since Christopher Luxon’s new Government was formed. Significant progress has been made in fulfilling Coalition pledges to wind back co-governance and race-based privilege.

Barrie Davis: Oh, the Humanity!

We are presently witnessing the closure of some mainstream media companies in New Zealand and it is anticipated there will be more. Several pundits in politics and the media are concerned for the effect their loss will have on democracy in this country. Yet, the mainstream media are known to be biased, overwhelmingly to the Left. The propaganda they published on behalf of the Labour government was instrumental in putting our country in the poor position it is now.

The Government paid them $55 million to “Actively promote the principles of Partnership, Participation and Active Protection under Te Tiriti o Waitangi, acknowledging Māori as a Te Tiriti partner” which they willingly accepted and are now bound to do until 2026. The Treaty is one page which can be read in five minutes. It does not mention principles or partnership, let alone specify them: Those words are just not there. Even Maori leaders say there are no principles in the Treaty.

NZCPR Podcast: Dangerous Influence

The Waitangi Tribunal was established in 1975 as a commission of inquiry into the Crown’s alleged breaches of the Treaty. The hope was that it would achieve reconciliation. 

It hasn’t. 

NZCPR Newsletter: Dangerous Influence

After winning all seven Maori seats in the 2017 General Election, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern established a Maori-Crown Relations portfolio with Deputy Labour Leader Kelvin Davis as Minister.

Derek Mackie: A Libertarian's Lament

Our Leader, who art in power

Deception is your game

Thy race seems run 

Thy time soon done, in office 

Your only legacy - division 

Derek Mackie: Democracy's Overrated

   

     A: Art Ful-Kwizzer 

    W: Will E Jackson 

 

A: Another week, another government cock-up! How do they manage to be so consistently incompetent, we ask ourselves?

 On NZ’s top rating, no-holds-barred, political talk show - Would I Lie to You - we hold politicians to account for their actions, or lack of them.

 Unlike our “Tame” mainstream competitor, we’re not scared to ask the hard questions....or financially rewarded not to ask them. 

 Tonight we have an exclusive interview with Will E Jackson, leader of New Zealand’s youngest political party, Democracy’s Overrated. 

I’ll be asking Mr Jackson some probing questions, demanding to know on behalf of all Kiwis, why our democracy is no longer fit-for-purpose…in his view, not mine. 

And why he contends that his party and its contentious policies are the best future path for our country. 

 So, no biting, gouging or kicking. Let’s get ready to rrrrrrrrumble!

 Welcome to the programme, Will. 

Graeme Reeves: Hon Willi Jackson - 8 August 2022 – One Person One Vote

Willie Jackson’s opinion piece published in the New Zealand Herald on 8 August 2022 is explicit and revelatory of the shallowness of the proponents of co-government for New Zealand.

The Jackson school of thought believes that governing New Zealand is best served by having two separate and incompatible forms of Government operating side by side with equal authority.

He sets out his supporting arguments in the article. Leaving aside his misguided excursion into American and British constitutional law he puts forward six reasons for slamming the foundations of New Zealand’s liberal democracy: “one person one vote”.

Graham Adams: Mainstream media chiefs and the five stages of grief

The Government giving money for journalism with strings attached is creating big problems for the organisations which accepted it. Some now regret taking the handouts. Graham Adams reports.

Listening to Newsroom’s co-editor Mark Jennings rail against people who accuse the mainstream media of having been bought by the government’s $55 million Public Interest Journalism Fund, it was impossible to not think of the Five Stages of Grief.

Fifty years ago, Swiss psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross outlined the now-famous stages of denial, anger, depression, bargaining and acceptance to describe how people cope with illness and dying.

Since then the stages have been used to describe everything from divorce and drug rehab to political upheavals (such as the profound grief experienced by many Democratic Party supporters after Trump won in 2016).

It has also become evident that the stages often don’t follow a linear progression, and people might experience only a few of them, or several at the same time.

Barry Brill: Does “partnership” mean the same as “marriage”?

Let's be clear ... the word “partnership” carries very little meaning.

It obviously denotes some form of association between multiple parties who have agreed to collaborate for a common purpose. It probably conveys a sense of collegiality and co-operation and goodwill. That’s about it.

The word itself says nothing about depth of commitment or duration. A marriage partnership might last a lifetime, while a partnership to play cards, tennis, etc might be gone by lunchtime. A sex partner might be a one-night stand.

In 1840, as now, an invitation to “take your partners” would have implied a relationship lasting for a few minutes.

Bob Edlin: The Treaty partnership at work - Minister defied

The Treaty partnership at work? DoC’s Minister is defied after declaring opposition to a rāhui in Whirinaki Conservation Park.

The Point of Order team, constantly keeping an eye on Beehive decisions that affect the way we are governed, has been looking for evidence that the Minister of Conservation is in charge of the Department of Conservation and that her department can over-ride travel bans imposed by anyone who cares to put up a “Keep Out” sign.

The evidence sadly suggests the Minister, Kiritapu Allan, is not in charge.

At least, not when Maori tribal leaders opt to flex their muscle.

This raises significant questions about accountability and ministerial responsibility under the Ardern government.

It also raises questions about so-called Treaty partnerships and co-governance.

Roger Childs: New Zealand’s Growing Apartheid

Partnership is well established; we are emphatically two people divided by race.
- Dr John Robinson

The original apartheid

The policy of apartheid (an Afrikaans word meaning “apartness” or “separation”) became official in South Africa with the election of the Nationalist Party to power in 1948. However policies in the country, based along racial lines, dated back to the early 20^th century. The successive governments of the Union of South Africa passed many laws giving preference to the white minority – under 20% of the population – and discriminating against other groupings – Blacks, Asians and Coloureds. However from 1948 onwards apartheid was fine-tuned to base life in South Africa on the principles of “separate development”.

Graham Adams: A question about the $55m media fund made Ardern laugh… but not for long

The Faustian pact between the media and the government has had an airing in Parliament.

Surprisingly for a Minister of Finance, Grant Robertson is an ebullient, jolly sort of fellow and it is not unusual for him to barrack from his seat next to the Prime Minister in Parliament to support her.

This week, Judith Collins had barely finished putting a question to Jacinda Ardern about media funding when he guffawed derisively.

Collins asked: “What does she say to people who are concerned that her $55 million Public Interest Journalism Fund — which includes numerous criteria for media to adhere to — is influencing the editorial decisions of media outlets in New Zealand?”

The Prime Minister — perhaps encouraged by her deputy’s derision — rose from her seat to reply. “Mr Speaker,” she declaimed emphatically, “I would abso-loot-ely reject that!”

NZCPR Weekly: A Slow-Moving Coup

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In this week’s NZCPR newsletter we investigate the slow-moving coup that’s being orchestrated by the Prime Minister to deliver Maori separatism by 2040, our NZCPR Guest Commentator Dr John Robinson explains why the values of tikanga conflict with those of a civilised society, and our poll asks whether you believe tikanga should be introduced into our legal system.

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NZCPR Weekly: Challenging the Agenda

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In this week’s NZCPR newsletter we examine Jacinda Ardern’s secret He Puapua agenda to replace democracy with tribal rule by 2040 – in light of the constitutional principle that Government actions are only legitimate when they have the consent of the people, our NZCPR Guest Commentator Karl du Fresne reveals the sinister implications of the Government’s latest media funding package, and our poll asks whether you believe ‘our team of 5 million’ should oppose the Treaty partnership fiction being imposed on our society.

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