John McLean: Unlikely Doctor Te Moke

I’ve just read The Unlikely Doctor, a book about a man who now goes by the name of Timoti Te Moke. The book is written in the first person (“I”), but was in fact written for Te Moke (and the publisher, Allen & Unwin) by a fella named Eugene Bingham. Being a full time medical doctor, Te Moke made it plain, “I ain’t got the time [to write a book]”.

Insights From Social Media: It Must Be So Embarrassing Being Different

NOTE: The following article was published in June 1995, newspaper unknown.

I am glad I am not a Maori. It must be awful being a Maori. So embarrassing.

Fancy knowing that you are so dumb you need extra resources for your education, that you are not capable of becoming a nurse without special help such as being allowed to sit your tests again and again till you pass, that you need a special quota system to give you a chance of becoming a doctor or a teacher or a policeman, that you are very good at “cultural” things such as singing and dancing and flax-weaving, but absolutely hopeless at practical things and useless at business!

Lindsay Mitchell: Colonisation blamed for Maori Meth use

Here is yet another example of a taxpayer-funded health professional teaching that self-destructive behaviour by Maori is the fault of colonisation: land dispossession, loss of language, attack on family structures, attack on belief systems etc.

Guest Post: The Greatest Scam in The History of NZ

Guest Post by Bill Chambers on No Minister

There are hundreds of preferential “provisions” along with 96 Acts of Parliament favouring Maori over all other New Zealanders. So, you must surely be asking yourself how fair is that … and WHY would such a blatant apartheid regime have ever been allowed to come about.

Well, this country has been taken down by the biggest fraudulent scam ever known. Due entirely to the fact that Activists are inherently greedy.

Geoff Parker: A Storm Is Not An Act Of Colonisation.

The report makes a legitimate point that some Māori communities are vulnerable to severe weather events, especially isolated rural or coastal settlements. But it weakens its own credibility by turning climate resilience into a broad ideological argument about colonisation and governance.

Climate risk is primarily driven by geography, infrastructure quality, income, and preparedness — not ancestry.

Colinxy: The Success Rate of Rehabilitation of Criminals

New Zealand Labour’s crime policy is built on a simple premise: rehabilitation works, and therefore the best way to reduce crime is to focus on treatment, programmes, and reducing reoffending. Labour rejects the “tough on crime” approach and frames rehabilitation as the humane, evidence‑based alternative.

Guest Post: Another proposed "Treaty racket"

Guest Post by John McLean on No Minister

Guess what! The pale faces of the tribal elite have just thought up a new way of extracting more money out of the long-suffering taxpayer. This time it’s TEETH.

That master of one-sided bias and misinformation, the taxpayer funded Radio New Zealand, reported on 20 March, 2026, that the reason why so many Maori have bad teeth is because of “colonisation”. Without bothering to check the accuracy of what it was reporting it gave its piece the blazing headline of “Calls grow for Universal Te Tiriti consistent dental care”.

Colinxy: Popping the “Māori Are Oppressed by Colonisation” Bubble

For decades, the political class and its media courtiers have repeated a single, soothing explanation for every negative statistic involving Māori: colonisation did it. No matter the indicator—prison rates, unemployment, income, health, education—the answer is always the same. History is the culprit, the Treaty is the solution, and the taxpayer is the ATM.

It’s a tidy story. It’s also wrong.

Centrist: Medical Council draft tells doctors to advance Māori equity, dismantle ‘power imbalances’

Documents circulated to doctors this week show the Medical Council is consulting on a new statement requiring practitioners to actively advance “hauora Māori” and address “unfair systems and power imbalances” within the health sector.

Does pursuing race-linked outcome equity cross from professional standards into political doctrine?

Geoff Parker: Colonisation Is Not What’s on the Dinner Plate

A new university-backed study claims Māori food insecurity is “not the result of individual choice or lifestyle” but a “direct and ongoing consequence of colonisation”. It is a claim that sounds humane and progressive — and one that creatively explains everything while proving very little.

No fairminded person denies that history matters. The problem is that colonisation is treated not as one factor among many, but as the decisive and permanent cause of present-day outcomes. It becomes an all-purpose explanation that absolves individuals of responsibility, shields current policy from scrutiny, and discourages honest discussion about what actually drives food insecurity today.

Colinxy: The Case for Colonisation

When Associate Professor Bruce Gilley published The Case for Colonialism in Third World Quarterly in 2017, the reaction was nothing short of volcanic. “Controversial” doesn’t begin to describe it. The editorial board resigned in protest, activists demanded the article’s retraction, and Gilley was pressured into issuing an apology. His crime? Violating the unwritten Romantic commandment:

“Thou shalt never say anything positive about colonialism.”

For those interested, Gilley’s original article can still be found here.

This essay is not a defence of every colonial act ever committed, nor is it an attempt to dismiss the harms that occurred in certain contexts.

Pee Kay: The Politics of Language

Rita Mae Brown, an American feminist writer is remembered as saying, “He unzipped his pants and his brains fell out.”

A more sagacious pearl of wisdom from Rita Mae was, “Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.”

Worryingly, those last 4 words may be portentous as far as New Zealand is concerned!

John Robertson: New Zealand’s Colonization Obsession Is Historically Illiterate

By 2025, New Zealand’s public discourse has hardened into something resembling a ritual: colonization is invoked, rehearsed, and recycled with near‑religious regularity, as if repeating the word itself constitutes historical insight. What began decades ago as a necessary reckoning has metastasized into a narrow, obsessive framework that treats colonization not as a universal human process, but as a uniquely modern moral crime—conveniently stripped of global context, scale, and historical precedent. This is not serious history. It is ideological repetition dressed up as moral sophistication.

Geoff Parker: Bastion Point, Rewritten History, and the Politics of Permanent Grievance

Hana Pera Aoake’s article in The Post reads less like history and more like advocacy presented as reflection. It leans heavily on symbolism and emotion while relying on selective memory and the omission of inconvenient facts—choices that serve a predetermined grievance narrative rather than an honest accounting of the past.

Start with Bastion Point itself. In 1886, 5.3 hectares of land were acquired under the Public Works Act for declared military purposes. This was neither a confiscation nor an unpaid seizure. Ngāti Whātua received £1,500 in compensation—roughly equivalent to about NZ$570,000 in today’s terms. On a per‑hectare basis, that payment was approximately twice the median value of today’s undeveloped New Zealand farmland. By any reasonable standard, the compensation was generous. Calling this “theft” obscures the basic facts: it was a lawful acquisition, accompanied by substantial payment.

Geoff Parker: Rebuttal to Ella Henry and Andrew Judd - The Treaty Wasn’t a Favour - It Was a Lifeline

In the video What Does It Mean to Be Pākehā in 2025?, Ella Henry and Andrew Judd present the familiar modern narrative: that colonisation was an unprovoked assault on a flourishing Māori world, that Pākehā are “only here because of the Treaty,” and that Māori could have negotiated their own international relationships — even with the French. But this version of history collapses the moment you compare it to the actual record of the 18th and early 19th centuries.

The truth is sharper, less romantic, and far more inconvenient: British colonisation ended the deadliest period in Māori history, protected Māori from other imperial powers, and introduced the first stable national authority New Zealand had ever known.

Matua Kahurangi: Colonisation was liberation

The truth the activists won’t admit

It is striking how often the loudest voices in New Zealand’s race debate come from those who have the faintest connection to being Māori. The same individuals who enjoy cushy jobs and generous salaries often exploit a sliver of Māori ancestry to advance themselves, however they spend their days decrying colonisation as if it were the worst thing ever to happen to this country.

Barrie Davis: The Enlightenment of Colonization

There has been a concerted effort since at least the Treaty of Waitangi Act 1975 to convince us that ‘the Crown’ and by extension We the people have something to atone for regarding the colonization of New Zealand. That is not the case. Quite obviously, the Maori quality of life was vastly improved by the British.

Nevertheless, the Government – Parliament and the judiciary – have allowed themselves to be wrongfully persuaded by part-Maori elites to avoid democratic process and transfer public sovereignty, assets and funds to tribal corporations which lie outside of the democratic purview.

Sean Rush: Acknowledging Tamatha Paul’s Concerns...

Acknowledging Tamatha Paul’s Concerns: A Balanced Perspective on Police Visibility

Tamatha Paul and I served together as Wellington city councillors from 2019 to 2022. Despite our differing political affiliations, we found common ground on several issues and developed a warm relationship that continues to this day. Recently, Tamatha, now a Green MP, expressed concerns about the heightened police visibility on Wellington streets, suggesting it causes more anxiety than security for some community members. As someone who worked as a criminal defence lawyer in Hawkes Bay back in the early 1990s, I can acknowledge Tamatha’s concerns.

John Robertson: NZ’s Pharmacy Council Has Gone Full Cult — and You’re Paying For It

Ladies and gentlemen, it’s official — New Zealand’s Pharmacy Council has lost the plot.

The government-appointed regulatory body in charge of ensuring pharmacists dispense medicine safely has decided that what really matters in healthcare isn’t, you know, actual medicine, but a pharmacist’s ability to sing waiata, analyze the “ongoing impacts of colonization,” and “trust Māori intelligence.” You know, because treating high blood pressure and filling antibiotic prescriptions is clearly impossible without a working knowledge of mana whenua.

Suze: Colonisation Is Not the Reason for This

“Faces of Innocents: High rates of child abuse among Māori can be traced back to colonisation, academic says.” Waikato Associate Professor Leonie Pihama, director of Te Kotahi Research Institute at Waikato University and director of Māori and Indigenous Analysis makes this claim. But is it true?