Post by Kiwi Frontline on Dec 7, 2023 9:46:53 GMT 12
Michael Bassett: MODERN MAORI MYTHS.
Many of the comments about the Coalition’s determination to wind back the dramatic Maorification of New Zealand of the last three years would have you believe the new government is engaged in a full-scale attack on Maori. In reality, all that is really happening is that ministers are stopping the crusade waged by the Ardern/Hipkins government to push Maori into all aspects of our lives at the expense of every other culture, while never having mentioned an intention to do so during the 2020 election campaign.
We now know that while New Zealand First stymied the efforts of Nanaia Mahuta and Willie Jackson to Maorify everything between 2017-2020, work was actually underway in secret on He Puapua. It is a bizarre document drawn up by several weak academics at Waikato University. They were planning a Maori minority take-over of the country by 2040, the bi-centennial of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi. No sooner were the writs returned from the 2020 election, with Winston Peters now out of Parliament, than work on implementing He Puapua began. The report “hasn’t been to Cabinet”, Jacinda toothily assured us, while at the same time her ministry was energetically putting its recommendations into force......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/12/michael-bassett-modern-maori-myths.html
Many of the comments about the Coalition’s determination to wind back the dramatic Maorification of New Zealand of the last three years would have you believe the new government is engaged in a full-scale attack on Maori. In reality, all that is really happening is that ministers are stopping the crusade waged by the Ardern/Hipkins government to push Maori into all aspects of our lives at the expense of every other culture, while never having mentioned an intention to do so during the 2020 election campaign.
We now know that while New Zealand First stymied the efforts of Nanaia Mahuta and Willie Jackson to Maorify everything between 2017-2020, work was actually underway in secret on He Puapua. It is a bizarre document drawn up by several weak academics at Waikato University. They were planning a Maori minority take-over of the country by 2040, the bi-centennial of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi. No sooner were the writs returned from the 2020 election, with Winston Peters now out of Parliament, than work on implementing He Puapua began. The report “hasn’t been to Cabinet”, Jacinda toothily assured us, while at the same time her ministry was energetically putting its recommendations into force......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/12/michael-bassett-modern-maori-myths.html