Post by Kiwi Frontline on Sept 18, 2021 10:52:50 GMT 12
PETITION (THAT DISAPPEARED) WAS SIGNED BY PAKEHA MUMS WHO FEAR RACE NOW COMES FIRST IN PLUNKET’S BABY-CARE PRIORITIES – Point of Order
In terms of the nation’s traditional iconography, it’s hard to decide whether Sir Edmund Hillary or Plunket nurses rate more highly in the popular imagination.
For many New Zealanders, Hillary represents the epitome of individualistic adventure while Plunket nurses looking after anxious mothers and vulnerable babies represent the best of community spirit.
Nevertheless, news came this week that Plunket is a “white supremacist” organisation, for which root-and-branch regeneration will be inadequate. (See Cate Broughton’s Plunket takes on its history, and future, to be ‘a better Treaty partner’, and a response to this by Linda Bryder: Plunket founder driven to reduce high infant mortality rate.)
This assault on Plunket’s reputation — let alone its very existence — will seem to many as outrageous as someone demanding Sir Ed’s image be taken off the $5 note because he was a white supremacist who denied Tenzing Norgay the chance of being the first person to stand on the summit of Mt Everest.
The case against Plunket — a charitable trust largely funded by taxpayers — rests mainly on views on race and eugenics held by its founder, Sir Truby King, who died 83 years ago in 1938......
pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2021/09/03/petition-that-disappeared-was-signed-by-pakeha-mums-who-fear-race-now-comes-first-in-plunkets-baby-care-priorities/
A FEW THOUGHTS ON THAT MOANA DECISION – Karl du Fresne
So – all done and dusted, then? Er, no. A follow-up story by Sharpe revealed that Moana’s birth mother – no doubt funded by the taxpayer and egged on by activists – will appeal the judgment. The social justice zealots in the front line of the culture wars don’t give up easily, especially when they know there’s a good prospect that a higher court will be more easily swayed than the redoubtable Judge Callinicos by ideological arguments that place racial considerations above human needs.
Naturally, Ngahiwi Tomoana, head of the Ngati Kahungungu iwi that supported Oranga Tamariki’s bid to remove Moana from her Pakeha caregivers, supports the appeal. Stuff’s stories don’t explain Tomoana’s legal standing in the case (if any), and neither do they reveal what (if anything) the iwi did to provide practical support for Moana’s birth mother or help her Pakeha caregivers trace her whanau. But that hasn’t stopped Tomoana from grandstanding on the case and using it to promote separatist models of care.
“The days that [sic] judges can tell us we’re not good enough anymore are over,” Stuff quotes Tomoana as saying. “This is just another case of other people thinking they know what’s best for Maori.”
No, it’s not; it’s a case of a judge humanely stepping in where others – including Ngati Kahungungu, quite possibly – failed to protect a vulnerable, damaged child. Why should Moana be made an innocent pawn in the culture wars? That’s ultimately what this case was about.......
karldufresne.blogspot.com/2021/09/a-few-thoughts-on-that-moana-decision.html
OPPOSITION TO 'AOTEAROA' NAME CHANGE – Don Brash
The Maori Party has launched a petition calling on Parliament to change the country's official name to Aotearoa and "officially restore the Te Reo Maori names for all towns, cities and place names". According to the petition:
"It’s well past time that Te Reo Māori was restored to its rightful place as the first and official language of this country. We are a Polynesian country – we are Aotearoa."
A Curia Research poll released today however finds 49 percent of New Zealanders oppose changing the name of the country to Aotearoa and only 28 percent support a change. Of those who have an opinion, 64 percent oppose changing the name of New Zealand to Aotearoa......
www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/opposition-to-aotearoa-name-change
In terms of the nation’s traditional iconography, it’s hard to decide whether Sir Edmund Hillary or Plunket nurses rate more highly in the popular imagination.
For many New Zealanders, Hillary represents the epitome of individualistic adventure while Plunket nurses looking after anxious mothers and vulnerable babies represent the best of community spirit.
Nevertheless, news came this week that Plunket is a “white supremacist” organisation, for which root-and-branch regeneration will be inadequate. (See Cate Broughton’s Plunket takes on its history, and future, to be ‘a better Treaty partner’, and a response to this by Linda Bryder: Plunket founder driven to reduce high infant mortality rate.)
This assault on Plunket’s reputation — let alone its very existence — will seem to many as outrageous as someone demanding Sir Ed’s image be taken off the $5 note because he was a white supremacist who denied Tenzing Norgay the chance of being the first person to stand on the summit of Mt Everest.
The case against Plunket — a charitable trust largely funded by taxpayers — rests mainly on views on race and eugenics held by its founder, Sir Truby King, who died 83 years ago in 1938......
pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2021/09/03/petition-that-disappeared-was-signed-by-pakeha-mums-who-fear-race-now-comes-first-in-plunkets-baby-care-priorities/
A FEW THOUGHTS ON THAT MOANA DECISION – Karl du Fresne
So – all done and dusted, then? Er, no. A follow-up story by Sharpe revealed that Moana’s birth mother – no doubt funded by the taxpayer and egged on by activists – will appeal the judgment. The social justice zealots in the front line of the culture wars don’t give up easily, especially when they know there’s a good prospect that a higher court will be more easily swayed than the redoubtable Judge Callinicos by ideological arguments that place racial considerations above human needs.
Naturally, Ngahiwi Tomoana, head of the Ngati Kahungungu iwi that supported Oranga Tamariki’s bid to remove Moana from her Pakeha caregivers, supports the appeal. Stuff’s stories don’t explain Tomoana’s legal standing in the case (if any), and neither do they reveal what (if anything) the iwi did to provide practical support for Moana’s birth mother or help her Pakeha caregivers trace her whanau. But that hasn’t stopped Tomoana from grandstanding on the case and using it to promote separatist models of care.
“The days that [sic] judges can tell us we’re not good enough anymore are over,” Stuff quotes Tomoana as saying. “This is just another case of other people thinking they know what’s best for Maori.”
No, it’s not; it’s a case of a judge humanely stepping in where others – including Ngati Kahungungu, quite possibly – failed to protect a vulnerable, damaged child. Why should Moana be made an innocent pawn in the culture wars? That’s ultimately what this case was about.......
karldufresne.blogspot.com/2021/09/a-few-thoughts-on-that-moana-decision.html
OPPOSITION TO 'AOTEAROA' NAME CHANGE – Don Brash
The Maori Party has launched a petition calling on Parliament to change the country's official name to Aotearoa and "officially restore the Te Reo Maori names for all towns, cities and place names". According to the petition:
"It’s well past time that Te Reo Māori was restored to its rightful place as the first and official language of this country. We are a Polynesian country – we are Aotearoa."
A Curia Research poll released today however finds 49 percent of New Zealanders oppose changing the name of the country to Aotearoa and only 28 percent support a change. Of those who have an opinion, 64 percent oppose changing the name of New Zealand to Aotearoa......
www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/opposition-to-aotearoa-name-change