Graham Adams: Maori nationalism takes a hammering in 2025

At the end of 2024, Māori nationalists were riding high in their quest to assert a special place in the nation’s laws and policy.

In November, the video of Te Pāti Māori MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clark leading a haka in Parliament and ripping up a copy of David Seymour’s Treaty Principles Bill racked up hundreds of millions of views worldwide.

Anglo Saxon: Moneti$ing Maoriness

Debunking Hinemoa Elder's racist agenda.

The largest industry within New Zealand is the maori grievance industry. It has the greatest turnover by far of any business enterprise in New Zealand; and here's the kicker.. its completely non profit; it produces nothing; zero; nada; completely a zero sum game. The entire industry is a mind numbingly massive tax payer funded redistribution of wealth. Our best and brightest hop on a plane.. who can blame them?

Click to view

Dr Don Brash: Equality is not a dirty word

Surely, in a liberal democracy, there are few words more chilling to read written in earnest than the “flawed concept of ‘equality’”. But there they were, in print, in an opinion piece by the National Urban Māori Authority’s Lady Tureiti Moxon published in the NZ Herald on Tuesday last week.

The Treaty Principles Bill has done exactly what its champion David Seymour intended; it has sparked a national conversation. And that conversation has been eye-opening to say the least. Never could I have ever predicted that ‘equality’ would be treated as such a dirty word.

John McLean: Earthqwoke over a Proposed Regulatory Standards Bill

But what’s all the fuss about?

The latest conniptions afflicting New Zealand’s Illiberal “Progressive” Elites are over further legislation proposed by ACT Party Leader David Seymour. The proposed legislation, to be called the Regulatory Standards Bill, is intended to improve the quality of legislative rulemaking in New Zealand – a laudable goal, one might think. OUTRAGE Queen in this instance is serial shrieker, Emeritus Professor Jane Kelsey.