Post by Kiwi Frontline on Apr 16, 2024 11:29:31 GMT 12
CENSORSHIP - Anthony Willy.
Separatism.
This was one of the live, if not burning issues which surfaced in the run up to the last election. Both ACT, and New Zealand First campaigned on a platform of ending Maori racial privilege and the creeping Maorification of our multi-cultural society evidenced by such annoyances as the unnecessary faux Maori patter on our television “news” services, and the renaming of government departments and any institution which received tax-payers’ money with equally made-up Maori words.
The public which barely raised a murmur, for example about the genuine use of Maori place names become tired of it and said so in a telling way at the ballot box. I have no doubt that it was this issue which got Winston over the line and was a material part of the support for ACT.
Significantly National lead by Christopher Luxon, himself a Maori language student said little or nothing about this issue during the election campaign deeming it divisive and damaging to the progress which they say The National Party had made in improving Maori non-Maori relationships over the years. There can be little doubt that when the voting public was given an opportunity to vote on this, among other issues they did not accept the National Party view, resulting in the present coalition government. One would have thought that to any experienced politician this would have raised a red flag.
National has not previously been in such a coalition and surely the Members of Parliament and their advisors would have taken stock and made some effort to accommodate the clearly expressed views of a large part of the electorate, and they did but in an extraordinary way. As is well known the coalition agreement between the Parties makes provision for ACT to introduce into parliament during the present sitting a bill seeking to define what are the principles (if any ) which can be drawn from the 1840 agreement between the Queen and some Maori Chiefs.
What is extraordinary about the position of some in National is that whatever may be the response of the public when the bill is referred to a select committee National will not support it further regardless of how many thousands of submissions which will undoubtedly be made in favour of the proposal or some variant of it. Being the largest party in the coalition and of course with the support of every other Party in Parliament the Bill will therefore lapse.
That is either an exercise in political cynicism, or electoral stupidity. Either way if there is widespread support for the bill the voters will not forget who killed it come the next election......
www.nzcpr.com/censorship/
Separatism.
This was one of the live, if not burning issues which surfaced in the run up to the last election. Both ACT, and New Zealand First campaigned on a platform of ending Maori racial privilege and the creeping Maorification of our multi-cultural society evidenced by such annoyances as the unnecessary faux Maori patter on our television “news” services, and the renaming of government departments and any institution which received tax-payers’ money with equally made-up Maori words.
The public which barely raised a murmur, for example about the genuine use of Maori place names become tired of it and said so in a telling way at the ballot box. I have no doubt that it was this issue which got Winston over the line and was a material part of the support for ACT.
Significantly National lead by Christopher Luxon, himself a Maori language student said little or nothing about this issue during the election campaign deeming it divisive and damaging to the progress which they say The National Party had made in improving Maori non-Maori relationships over the years. There can be little doubt that when the voting public was given an opportunity to vote on this, among other issues they did not accept the National Party view, resulting in the present coalition government. One would have thought that to any experienced politician this would have raised a red flag.
National has not previously been in such a coalition and surely the Members of Parliament and their advisors would have taken stock and made some effort to accommodate the clearly expressed views of a large part of the electorate, and they did but in an extraordinary way. As is well known the coalition agreement between the Parties makes provision for ACT to introduce into parliament during the present sitting a bill seeking to define what are the principles (if any ) which can be drawn from the 1840 agreement between the Queen and some Maori Chiefs.
What is extraordinary about the position of some in National is that whatever may be the response of the public when the bill is referred to a select committee National will not support it further regardless of how many thousands of submissions which will undoubtedly be made in favour of the proposal or some variant of it. Being the largest party in the coalition and of course with the support of every other Party in Parliament the Bill will therefore lapse.
That is either an exercise in political cynicism, or electoral stupidity. Either way if there is widespread support for the bill the voters will not forget who killed it come the next election......
www.nzcpr.com/censorship/