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NEW ZEALAND IN TURMOIL – Amy Brooke
Political corruption may always be endemic, but moves by our powerful, now immensely wealthy neo-tribal corporations have become so blatantly cynical they are arousing resentment throughout New Zealand.
When the constant, opportunistic claim comes that anti-Maori discrimination is such that Maoris are over-represented in all areas of disadvantage throughout New Zealand, few ask to see the actual evidence by asking who is actually Maori? These claims are routinely made by wealthy individuals – such as one former Maori MP earning hundreds of thousands of dollars annually sitting on Maori boards and trusts – reportedly owning close to $5 million in property and other assets, while constantly complaining colonisation has failed Maoris......
www.spectator.com.au/2022/05/new-zealand-in-turmoil/
Graeme Reeves: COOKE ON PARTNERSHIP TREATY OF WAITANGI
Co–Governance is predicated on the assumption that the Treaty of Waitangi created an equal Partnership between Maori and the Crown.
Is that assumption correct?
The term Partnership was first used in the context of the Treaty in the Court of Appeal case (New Zealand Maori Council v Attorney-General [1987] 1 NZLR 641) in what is referred to as the Lands Case in 1987. In particular the obiter dicta (not the ratio decidendi) in the judgment of Justice Robin Cooke who was the President of the Court of Appeal at that time.
Since the publication of the He Puapua report and its eventual public release, a great deal of debate about the report’s expressed goal of the division of New Zealand into two separate sovereign states has ensued......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2022/05/graeme-reeves-cooke-on-partnership.html
Graham Adams: BRAND DESTRUCTION HITS THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA
Many different kinds of disasters can help destroy a company’s brand.
Electronic devices that start smouldering in your pocket, for example, can damage trust very quickly — as Samsung found in 2016 after it failed to adequately test its Galaxy Note 7 smartphone, which began spontaneously combusting.
Last year, Facebook’s wholesome image of linking people with “friends” took a beating after a former employee-turned-whistleblower revealed that its algorithms deliberately send users tumbling down rabbit holes.
And Twitter’s selective censorship that has seen it ban a sitting US President while allowing officials from despotic governments to continue using the site to spread propaganda and justify violence against minorities has severely damaged its standing as a social media platform......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2022/05/graham-adams-brand-destruction-hits.html
John Bishop: THREE WATERS IS STILL A SHAMELESS ASSET GRAB
”How did Three Waters go so badly wrong?” asked the newspaper headline.
From the Government’s point of view, the answer is that it hasn’t gone wrong. The scheme to grab assets paid for by ratepayers over many years and put them into four new entities well out of reach of ratepayers is still going ahead.
These entities will be governed and managed in accordance with “the principles of the Treaty, Te Mana o te Wai and mātauranga Māori, tikanga Māori, kaitiakitanga, and te ao Māori”, according to the various Cabinet papers on the subject.
Local Government Minister Nanaia Mahuta trumpets that councils will still own the assets, which isn’t even sort of true. Councils may own the assets, but they certainly will not control them......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2022/05/john-bishop-three-waters-is-still.html
Political corruption may always be endemic, but moves by our powerful, now immensely wealthy neo-tribal corporations have become so blatantly cynical they are arousing resentment throughout New Zealand.
When the constant, opportunistic claim comes that anti-Maori discrimination is such that Maoris are over-represented in all areas of disadvantage throughout New Zealand, few ask to see the actual evidence by asking who is actually Maori? These claims are routinely made by wealthy individuals – such as one former Maori MP earning hundreds of thousands of dollars annually sitting on Maori boards and trusts – reportedly owning close to $5 million in property and other assets, while constantly complaining colonisation has failed Maoris......
www.spectator.com.au/2022/05/new-zealand-in-turmoil/
Graeme Reeves: COOKE ON PARTNERSHIP TREATY OF WAITANGI
Co–Governance is predicated on the assumption that the Treaty of Waitangi created an equal Partnership between Maori and the Crown.
Is that assumption correct?
The term Partnership was first used in the context of the Treaty in the Court of Appeal case (New Zealand Maori Council v Attorney-General [1987] 1 NZLR 641) in what is referred to as the Lands Case in 1987. In particular the obiter dicta (not the ratio decidendi) in the judgment of Justice Robin Cooke who was the President of the Court of Appeal at that time.
Since the publication of the He Puapua report and its eventual public release, a great deal of debate about the report’s expressed goal of the division of New Zealand into two separate sovereign states has ensued......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2022/05/graeme-reeves-cooke-on-partnership.html
Graham Adams: BRAND DESTRUCTION HITS THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA
Many different kinds of disasters can help destroy a company’s brand.
Electronic devices that start smouldering in your pocket, for example, can damage trust very quickly — as Samsung found in 2016 after it failed to adequately test its Galaxy Note 7 smartphone, which began spontaneously combusting.
Last year, Facebook’s wholesome image of linking people with “friends” took a beating after a former employee-turned-whistleblower revealed that its algorithms deliberately send users tumbling down rabbit holes.
And Twitter’s selective censorship that has seen it ban a sitting US President while allowing officials from despotic governments to continue using the site to spread propaganda and justify violence against minorities has severely damaged its standing as a social media platform......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2022/05/graham-adams-brand-destruction-hits.html
John Bishop: THREE WATERS IS STILL A SHAMELESS ASSET GRAB
”How did Three Waters go so badly wrong?” asked the newspaper headline.
From the Government’s point of view, the answer is that it hasn’t gone wrong. The scheme to grab assets paid for by ratepayers over many years and put them into four new entities well out of reach of ratepayers is still going ahead.
These entities will be governed and managed in accordance with “the principles of the Treaty, Te Mana o te Wai and mātauranga Māori, tikanga Māori, kaitiakitanga, and te ao Māori”, according to the various Cabinet papers on the subject.
Local Government Minister Nanaia Mahuta trumpets that councils will still own the assets, which isn’t even sort of true. Councils may own the assets, but they certainly will not control them......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2022/05/john-bishop-three-waters-is-still.html