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Graham Adams: CAN THE MĀORI HEALTH AUTHORITY REALLY BOOST MĀORI LIFE EXPECTANCY?
In fact, the real driver for setting up a separate Māori Health Authority is political and improving health outcomes is secondary — much like giving iwi a 50:50 co-governance role in Three Waters is not primarily about improving water quality and delivery.
Both are aspects of the co-governance agenda set out in He Puapua that rests on a radical interpretation of the Treaty as a 50:50 partnership between iwi and the Crown.
However, in its promotion of both the Māori Health Authority and Three Waters, the Government mostly avoids offering the true reasons for its separatist policies and instead offers flimsy and often emotive pretexts.
Unfortunately, some of our most prominent journalists and media organisations automatically repeat the Government’s pretexts and talking points in such a mindless fashion it’s impossible not to think of Lenin’s description of the credulous supporters of his ruthless politics as “useful idiots”.....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2022/04/graham-adams-can-maori-health-authority.html
Point of Order: LOCAL GOVT COMMISSION OVER-RIDES ROTORUA’S UNDEMOCRATIC VOTING MODEL – BUT WHAT WILL LABOUR-MAJORITY PARLIAMENT DO?
Kiwiblog today reports that the Local Government Commission has completed a determination for Rotorua which will result in three Māori Ward Councillors being elected, but without sacrificing equality of suffrage.
As Kiwiblog tells us, the commission favours –
* An urban general ward – 48,410 people elect six councillors – 8,068 population per councillor.
* A Māori ward – 21,700 people elect three councillors – 7,233 population per councillor
* A rural general ward – 7,200 people elect one councillor – 7,200 population per councillor.
This means the commission has rejected Rotorua Lakes Council’s model which comprised one Māori ward seat, one general ward seat and eight at-large seats.
To implement the council model, special legislation has been introduced to Parliament to over-ride requirements of the Local Elections Act.......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2022/04/point-of-order-local-govt-commission.html
ROTORUA GERRYMANDER IS A BLATANT POWER-GRAB – Barry Brill.
The Death of Democracy?
The Rotorua Bill introduces a principle of basic inequality which is foreign to the thinking of New Zealanders. It repudiates our proud tradition as one of the world’s oldest liberal democracies. And it elevates political identity above all the traditions, standards and belief systems that are the essence of being a New Zealander.
The principle of this Bill renounces once-and-for-all the vision of New Zealand as a modern multi-cultural society, where all citizens have equal civil rights – ie all are equal before the law.
The Labour Party is well aware of the enormity of the step they are taking in the Rotorua Bill. There is an all-or-nothing quality about it. It crosses the Rubicon … burns the boats. The secrecy, deceit and deniability that surrounded the party’s anti-democratic agenda is now gone forever.
The stakes are very high. If Maori votes can be trebled, then the Labour Party and its left-wing allies could could remain in power indefinitely. On the other hand, this power-grab could create a huge push-back which could put paid to their election chances for a very long time......
www.nzcpr.com/rotorua-gerrymander-is-a-blatant-power-grab/
Point of Order: TREATY SETTLEMENTS, ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AND THE INSIDIOUS MARCH FROM CO-MANAGEMENT TO CO-GOVERNANCE
We can’t be sure, here at Point of Order, about when “co-governance” was first introduced to this country’s political vocabulary. For some time before ministers were talking about co-governance, they had been talking about co-management.
There’s a difference. A big difference, when it comes to constitutional arrangements within public authorities.
According to one distinction we uncovered, “governance” is the strategic task of setting the organisation’s goals, direction, limitations and accountability frameworks. “Management” is the allocation of resources and overseeing the day-to-day operations of the organisation.
The first mention of co-governance we could find on the Beehive website – which records all ministerial statements and speeches and statements since 1993 – was made by John Luxton in May 1997. As Associate Minister of International Trade, addressing guests at a meat industry function, he talked about the meat industry’s movement into the next millennium.
He said the development of co-governance principles under CER were among the government priorities he mentioned.
Obviously that had nothing to do with the Treaty of Waitangi, although someone is bound to pop up and insist everything that happens in this country is Treaty-related.
The first mention of co-governance in the context of Crown-iwi relations was made by Christopher Finlayson, Minister of Treaty of Waitangi Settlements, in 2009, according to our search of the Beehive website. He also shifted the parameters of Treaty-related expectations......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2022/04/point-of-order-treaty-settlements.html
Elizabeth Rata: THE ROAD TO HE PUAPUA – IS THERE REALLY A TREATY PARTNERSHIP?
The He Puapua Report proposes revolutionary change for New Zealand. The question of how we have arrived at a crossroads where New Zealanders will have to choose between an ethno-nationalist state — which He Puapua leads to — or a democratic-nationalist one has its origins in three events in 1985, 1986 and 1987.
It was in these years that the concept of a Treaty of Waitangi “partnership” was created. It is the foundational pillar for the Report’s goal of “transformative restructuring of governance to recognise rangatiratanga Māori”. Iwi self-determination includes the co-governance arrangements laid out in He Puapua. There is also the likelihood of claims for the ownership of up to 50 per cent of public assets such as water, sea territories, flora and fauna, and airwaves. Is this path to ethnic nationalism inevitable?.....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2022/04/elizabeth-rata-road-to-he-puapua-is.html
Graham Adams: ARDERN STRUGGLES TO DEFEND UNEQUAL SUFFRAGE
It is hardly surprising that the question of equal political rights for all New Zealanders is becoming a very touchy subject for Jacinda Ardern. Mid-way through her second term, that question is becoming every bit as sensitive for the Prime Minister as mention of KiwiBuild or a capital gains tax was in her first.
A major difference, of course, is that KiwiBuild and a CGT were policies she openly promoted and campaigned on in 2017. However, a comprehensive and far-reaching co-governance project to give more political rights to unelected iwi members and Māori voters never featured in her campaign for 2020’s “Covid” election.
Unfortunately, the very first clause of the Labour Party constitution inconveniently speaks against such manoeuvres:.....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2022/04/graham-adams-ardern-struggles-to-defend.html
In fact, the real driver for setting up a separate Māori Health Authority is political and improving health outcomes is secondary — much like giving iwi a 50:50 co-governance role in Three Waters is not primarily about improving water quality and delivery.
Both are aspects of the co-governance agenda set out in He Puapua that rests on a radical interpretation of the Treaty as a 50:50 partnership between iwi and the Crown.
However, in its promotion of both the Māori Health Authority and Three Waters, the Government mostly avoids offering the true reasons for its separatist policies and instead offers flimsy and often emotive pretexts.
Unfortunately, some of our most prominent journalists and media organisations automatically repeat the Government’s pretexts and talking points in such a mindless fashion it’s impossible not to think of Lenin’s description of the credulous supporters of his ruthless politics as “useful idiots”.....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2022/04/graham-adams-can-maori-health-authority.html
Point of Order: LOCAL GOVT COMMISSION OVER-RIDES ROTORUA’S UNDEMOCRATIC VOTING MODEL – BUT WHAT WILL LABOUR-MAJORITY PARLIAMENT DO?
Kiwiblog today reports that the Local Government Commission has completed a determination for Rotorua which will result in three Māori Ward Councillors being elected, but without sacrificing equality of suffrage.
As Kiwiblog tells us, the commission favours –
* An urban general ward – 48,410 people elect six councillors – 8,068 population per councillor.
* A Māori ward – 21,700 people elect three councillors – 7,233 population per councillor
* A rural general ward – 7,200 people elect one councillor – 7,200 population per councillor.
This means the commission has rejected Rotorua Lakes Council’s model which comprised one Māori ward seat, one general ward seat and eight at-large seats.
To implement the council model, special legislation has been introduced to Parliament to over-ride requirements of the Local Elections Act.......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2022/04/point-of-order-local-govt-commission.html
ROTORUA GERRYMANDER IS A BLATANT POWER-GRAB – Barry Brill.
The Death of Democracy?
The Rotorua Bill introduces a principle of basic inequality which is foreign to the thinking of New Zealanders. It repudiates our proud tradition as one of the world’s oldest liberal democracies. And it elevates political identity above all the traditions, standards and belief systems that are the essence of being a New Zealander.
The principle of this Bill renounces once-and-for-all the vision of New Zealand as a modern multi-cultural society, where all citizens have equal civil rights – ie all are equal before the law.
The Labour Party is well aware of the enormity of the step they are taking in the Rotorua Bill. There is an all-or-nothing quality about it. It crosses the Rubicon … burns the boats. The secrecy, deceit and deniability that surrounded the party’s anti-democratic agenda is now gone forever.
The stakes are very high. If Maori votes can be trebled, then the Labour Party and its left-wing allies could could remain in power indefinitely. On the other hand, this power-grab could create a huge push-back which could put paid to their election chances for a very long time......
www.nzcpr.com/rotorua-gerrymander-is-a-blatant-power-grab/
Point of Order: TREATY SETTLEMENTS, ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AND THE INSIDIOUS MARCH FROM CO-MANAGEMENT TO CO-GOVERNANCE
We can’t be sure, here at Point of Order, about when “co-governance” was first introduced to this country’s political vocabulary. For some time before ministers were talking about co-governance, they had been talking about co-management.
There’s a difference. A big difference, when it comes to constitutional arrangements within public authorities.
According to one distinction we uncovered, “governance” is the strategic task of setting the organisation’s goals, direction, limitations and accountability frameworks. “Management” is the allocation of resources and overseeing the day-to-day operations of the organisation.
The first mention of co-governance we could find on the Beehive website – which records all ministerial statements and speeches and statements since 1993 – was made by John Luxton in May 1997. As Associate Minister of International Trade, addressing guests at a meat industry function, he talked about the meat industry’s movement into the next millennium.
He said the development of co-governance principles under CER were among the government priorities he mentioned.
Obviously that had nothing to do with the Treaty of Waitangi, although someone is bound to pop up and insist everything that happens in this country is Treaty-related.
The first mention of co-governance in the context of Crown-iwi relations was made by Christopher Finlayson, Minister of Treaty of Waitangi Settlements, in 2009, according to our search of the Beehive website. He also shifted the parameters of Treaty-related expectations......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2022/04/point-of-order-treaty-settlements.html
Elizabeth Rata: THE ROAD TO HE PUAPUA – IS THERE REALLY A TREATY PARTNERSHIP?
The He Puapua Report proposes revolutionary change for New Zealand. The question of how we have arrived at a crossroads where New Zealanders will have to choose between an ethno-nationalist state — which He Puapua leads to — or a democratic-nationalist one has its origins in three events in 1985, 1986 and 1987.
It was in these years that the concept of a Treaty of Waitangi “partnership” was created. It is the foundational pillar for the Report’s goal of “transformative restructuring of governance to recognise rangatiratanga Māori”. Iwi self-determination includes the co-governance arrangements laid out in He Puapua. There is also the likelihood of claims for the ownership of up to 50 per cent of public assets such as water, sea territories, flora and fauna, and airwaves. Is this path to ethnic nationalism inevitable?.....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2022/04/elizabeth-rata-road-to-he-puapua-is.html
Graham Adams: ARDERN STRUGGLES TO DEFEND UNEQUAL SUFFRAGE
It is hardly surprising that the question of equal political rights for all New Zealanders is becoming a very touchy subject for Jacinda Ardern. Mid-way through her second term, that question is becoming every bit as sensitive for the Prime Minister as mention of KiwiBuild or a capital gains tax was in her first.
A major difference, of course, is that KiwiBuild and a CGT were policies she openly promoted and campaigned on in 2017. However, a comprehensive and far-reaching co-governance project to give more political rights to unelected iwi members and Māori voters never featured in her campaign for 2020’s “Covid” election.
Unfortunately, the very first clause of the Labour Party constitution inconveniently speaks against such manoeuvres:.....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2022/04/graham-adams-ardern-struggles-to-defend.html