Bob Edlin: Maori and InternetNZ – guaranteed places at the board table.....

Maori and InternetNZ – guaranteed places at the board table should help to ensure mauri is not lost

The internet is some 43 years old, harking back to the adoption of standard TCP/IP protocols in 1983. Its precursor, ARPANET, sent its first message in 1969 whereas the World Wide Web, which made the internet accessible to the public, was launched in 1991.

Whichever of those dates might be chosen as its starting point, the internet is a comparatively recent development.

David Harvey: The Demise of the Broadcasting Standards Authority?

An announcement. But will there be action?

On 6 May 2026 the Minister for Broadcasting, Mr. Paul Goldsmith, announced that the Broadcasting Standards Authority would be disestablished.

A process had been put in place to wind down the BSA and investigate self-regulation options. There is, of course, a little more to it than that. The BSA was created by the Broadcasting Act 1989 and it is referred to in a number of statutes. There will be legislative work involved as well.

Pee Kay: Equal Rights is Being Quietly Euthanised

Last week, I pulled back the curtain exposing a small fraction of the financial reality of Māori privilege. Today I’m endeavouring to follow the trail to the very source of the decay. Today I’m looking at the systemic foundations that sustain Maori privilege.

New Zealand isn’t just drifting toward a two-tier society, I say we’ve already arrived!

While we go about our daily lives, a quiet revolution is being engineered by the very people sworn to represent us. This isn’t a conspiracy; Oh no, it’s a co-ordinated march toward tribal rule, led by politicians and protected by a shield of complicit media, elite academics, and bureaucratic “gatekeepers.”

John McLean: Legal Elite Is Winning In The War For Constitutional Supremacy

Craig Stobo has been forced to resign as chair of the board of New Zealand’s Financial Markets Authority.

On 4 May 2026, National Party MP and Commerce & Consumer Affairs Minister, Cameron Brewer, accepted Stobo’s offer to resign. Brewer’s acceptance was of course code for, “If he’d refused to resign, I’d’ve booted him”.

Anthony Grant: Tikanga - The Unknown Law That Binds Us All

The law of Tikanga troubles me.

My concerns stem in part from my experience as a student at Auckland University in 1967 when I was enrolled to study Mãori.

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.

Bob Edlin: Māori activists are buoyed by decision to drop Treaty vandalism charges....

Māori activists are buoyed by decision to drop Treaty vandalism charges – but Te Papa prefers to stay stum

An outfit called Te Waka Hourua issued a press statement to welcome a court’s dismissal of all charges against someone named Te Wehi Ratana “for action taken At Te Papa In ’23”.

Action?

That’s one word for it.

Blatant vandalism is another.

Roger Partridge: Supreme Court matters - Why lawyers need to speak out

Imagine a system in which those who understand it best see a problem developing – slowly, incrementally, case by case – but choose not to say so publicly. Not because they are forbidden to speak. Not because they are ignorant. But because speaking carries personal cost, while silence is professionally safer.

The system continues to function. No single failure is dramatic enough to force action. Each adjustment can be defended on its own terms. Outsiders assume that if something were seriously wrong, those closest to it would say so.

Over time, the problem becomes structural. By the time it is widely acknowledged, it is no longer easy to reverse.

Pee Kay: Or is that just STUPID!

“Agile, adaptive and lethal.” Those are the qualities New Zealand needs to become combat-ready, says Chief of Army Major General Rose King.

To meet those requirements our New Zealand Army leader has devised a new blueprint that she believes will “create a fighting-fit force for the future!”

Bob Edlin: Iwi ensure respect is shown to a crash site....

Iwi ensure respect is shown to a crash site – but how are the beliefs of crash victims and their families respected?

About this time a week ago, the New Zealand Police released a statement to report that two people had died in a helicopter crash north of Wellington earlier in the day.

Work was under way to recover the deceased and to examine the crash scene, near the Battle Hill regional park.

The statement included:

Geoff Parker: Democracy Needs Neutral Ground

Local government exists to serve everyone — and that requires neutral ground.

The debate surrounding Hastings District councillor Steve Gibson’s decision not to attend a strategic planning session held on a marae is not about disrespect or cultural hostility. It is about whether official council business should be conducted in settings that are secular, linguistically accessible, and free from cultural or spiritual expectations, so every elected representative can participate equally and without pressure to conform.

John Robertson: ACC and Maori healing

Let’s not kid ourselves. ACC is supposed to be a taxpayer-funded injury insurer. You pay your levies. You get hurt. They fix you with stuff that actually works — medicine, science, evidence. That’s the deal. That’s the social contract.

But somewhere along the line, metaphysical mumbo-jumbo has snuck in and taken over. ACC is now paying for Rongoā Māori, a so-called “healing program” built on Māori spiritual beliefs. And at the heart of it? Tikanga.

David Harvey: Tikanga and the law - evolution or a quiet revolution?

In a recent paper, Ellis v R: A Revolution in Aotearoa New Zealand, Emeritus Professor Peter Watts KC argued that the Supreme Court’s decision in Ellis v R marked a revolutionary break from New Zealand’s constitutional foundations.

By declaring tikanga relevant to any issue of common law or statutory interpretation, he says, the court has fundamentally transformed our legal system without democratic mandate.

Insights From Social Media: Compulsory Tikanga In Law School - When Cultural Ideology Replaces Legal Education

Tom Henry re-writes > New Zealand’s law schools have been re-engineered. All law students must pass a dedicated course on Tikanga Māori as a core component of their law degree to meet the requirements for legal practice. Advocates call it progress, a justice system “reflecting us all.” In reality, it’s an ideological project packaged as reform.

Tikanga Isn’t a Legal System — And Never Was.

Matua Kahurangi: Te Pāti Māori just proved tikanga Is nothing more than mumbo-jumbo

The latest crisis within Te Pāti Māori has exposed the uncomfortable truth. Tikanga talk is just mumbo jumbo. The moment the party’s leadership chooses to run roughshod over iwi voices and democratic process, the whole house of cards comes crashing down.

That 88 iwi apparently made a call for unity asking for cohesion and collective kōrero only for Te Pāti Māori’s national council to ignore, dismiss or override them. The headline tells the story. Iwi called for unity and the party decided to expel MPs instead. There is no illusion. When push comes to shove, tikanga means nothing.

Graham Adams: Maorification Is National’s Achilles heel

Its opposition to Treatyism is bafflingly haphazard.

At times it’s impossible not to wonder whether some of National’s ministers — and the Prime Minister — have early-onset Alzheimer’s. It is as if they have found themselves in government but can’t remember exactly how they got there and why they won.

Graham Adams: Tikanga inserted into cutting-edge gene bill

In August 2024, the then-Minister of Science, Innovation, and Technology, Judith Collins, announced legislation to end New Zealand’s nearly 30-year ban on gene technology outside the lab. She described the move as “a major milestone in modernising gene technology laws.”

In her Beehive media release, she said, “The changes we’re announcing today will allow researchers and companies to further develop and commercialise their innovative products. Importantly, it will help New Zealanders to better access treatments such as CAR T-cell therapy, which has been clinically proven to effectively treat some cancers. It can also help our farmers and growers mitigate emissions and increase productivity, all of which benefits our economy.”

Wendy Geus: Winston nails vague 'Tikanga' at Oxford debate, as BSA police 'unsafe' usage

Tikanga can't be precisely defined so cannot withstand legal scrutiny.

The question of whether tikanga is vague, ambiguous or simply mumbo jumbo was referenced by Winston Peters at the Oxford Debate when he spoke in the affirmative to the proposition 'This House Believes That the Courts Now Undermine Democracy’.

Judy Gill: Tikanga Blasphemy and Real Free-Speech Exceptions in State Law in New Zealand

“TIKANGA IS MUMBO-JUMBO” – Sean Plunkett declared.

No, you must cease and desist, or we will take your company down.

THIS IS BLASPHEMY AGAINST TE AO MAORI FUNDAMENTALISM, the state religion of Aotearoa!

– Chants the NZ Broadcasting Standards Authority.

Wendy Geus: National MP advocating for Tikanga taught in law school, unable to define it

As National fractures its Coalition agreement in its zealotry to appease Maori.

The BSA has announced it is stepping outside its legally defined lane to widen its remit to online media networks and has chosen outspoken Sean Plunket of The Platform as their first victim around a complaint regarding his 'racist' tarnishing of the word 'tikanga' by calling it, 'mumbo jumbo'.