Post by Kiwi Frontline on Oct 20, 2021 9:45:23 GMT 12
WHAT A MESS WE'RE IN – Don Brash
Finally, let me touch on He Puapua. As many readers will know, this document, produced at the request of the Government in 2019, completed later that year but withheld from the public – and, apparently, from Labour’s coalition partner, New Zealand First - until after last year’s election, is arguably the most explosive document ever produced by a New Zealand Government.
He Puapua lays out a plan under which, by the bicentenary of the Treaty of Waitangi in 2040, New Zealand would have two governments under a tribal monitoring committee, one by Maori for Maori, and the other, a fully bicultural version of the existing government.
Maori New Zealanders would have their own health department, their own education ministry and schools, their own welfare system, and in principle their own Parliament.
The Prime Minister claims, more than slightly implausibly, that she had not seen the document prior to its public release after the election. She has accused Judith Collins of racism for raising the matter in Parliament and in speeches to the National Party faithful. But she and her Ministers are actively consulting with Maori on the report and in important policy areas the Government is already implementing the recommendations of the report.
Earlier this year, the Government passed legislation under urgency to amend legislation in order to ban ratepayers from having a say on the creation of separate race-based Maori wards in local government.
Soon afterwards, the Government announced that a totally separate Maori Health Authority would be created which would not only be exclusively focused on Maori health, but which would also have a power of veto on what the “mainstream” health authority does.
We have seen the Government mandate that an egregiously lop-sided History curriculum be taught in all schools, emphasizing the wonderfulness of all things Maori and the evil brought to New Zealand by the early colonists......
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Finally, let me touch on He Puapua. As many readers will know, this document, produced at the request of the Government in 2019, completed later that year but withheld from the public – and, apparently, from Labour’s coalition partner, New Zealand First - until after last year’s election, is arguably the most explosive document ever produced by a New Zealand Government.
He Puapua lays out a plan under which, by the bicentenary of the Treaty of Waitangi in 2040, New Zealand would have two governments under a tribal monitoring committee, one by Maori for Maori, and the other, a fully bicultural version of the existing government.
Maori New Zealanders would have their own health department, their own education ministry and schools, their own welfare system, and in principle their own Parliament.
The Prime Minister claims, more than slightly implausibly, that she had not seen the document prior to its public release after the election. She has accused Judith Collins of racism for raising the matter in Parliament and in speeches to the National Party faithful. But she and her Ministers are actively consulting with Maori on the report and in important policy areas the Government is already implementing the recommendations of the report.
Earlier this year, the Government passed legislation under urgency to amend legislation in order to ban ratepayers from having a say on the creation of separate race-based Maori wards in local government.
Soon afterwards, the Government announced that a totally separate Maori Health Authority would be created which would not only be exclusively focused on Maori health, but which would also have a power of veto on what the “mainstream” health authority does.
We have seen the Government mandate that an egregiously lop-sided History curriculum be taught in all schools, emphasizing the wonderfulness of all things Maori and the evil brought to New Zealand by the early colonists......
www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/what-a-mess-we-re-in