4 x Articles - Tax, Sovereignty, Te Reo slates, Brash

[Kiwi Frontline]

MĀORI PUNISHED WITH WORLD’S HIGHEST RATE OF TOBACCO EXCISE

Taxpayers’ Union Executive Director Jordan Williams says, “Revenue from tobacco excise tax alone outstrips the combined value of Treaty Settlements and Māori Development funding by $120 million a year. This is the inevitable result of charging the highest rate of tobacco excise in the world, when adjusted for income. In short, the Government gives with one hand and takes far more with the other, undermining decades of effort to improve outcomes for Māori.”....

community.scoop.co.nz/2019/02/maori-punished-with-worlds-highest-rate-of-tobacco-excise/

[Kiwi Frontline]

WAITANGI TREATY: LETTERS SHED LIGHT ON MĀORI PLIGHT FOR SOVEREIGNTY

Tomorrow the country marks nearly 180 years since Te Tiriti o Waitangi was signed, but letters from that era show that some issues for Māori remain the same.

The collection of more than 700 letters written by Māori can also be found on Auckland Council's online archive, Kura.

But preserved in folders are some of the original copies.....

www.radionz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/381812/waitangi-treaty-letters-shed-light-on-maori-plight-for-sovereignty

[Kiwi Frontline]

SLATES WITH FIRST WRITTEN TE REO MĀORI GET UNESCO HERITAGE RECOGNITION

Two slates with the first known examples of written te reo Māori were shown to the Prime Minister yesterday at New Zealand's oldest building, Kemp House in Kerikeri.

A ceremony was held to acknowledge the mana of the taonga and also their inclusion on UNESCO's Memory of the World heritage documentary register.

They date back to the 1830s when part of the house was used as a classroom where missionary, Martha Clarke taught the daughters of rangatira, literacy, numeracy and domestic skills.....

www.radionz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/381813/slates-with-first-written-te-reo-maori-get-unesco-heritage-recognition

[Kiwi Frontline]

DON BRASH CUTS WAITANGI SPEECH AS PROTESTERS BLOCK HIM OUT

Former National leader Don Brash cut short his speech at Waitangi today just as his speaking area was taken over by protesters carrying a banner opposing racism.

The banner blocked out the stage, obscuring Brash from a crowd which had heckled him from the moment he opened his mouth.

And then he stopped. The banner came and Brash found himself blocked out by the word "racism", drawn large.

Then Brash sat there while everyone else had their turn.

The words wore different but the message was much the same as the banner.

"No room for racism," they said, one after another.

And Brash listened.......

www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12201140

[second-class-citizen]

When a (part) race has become so used to race based privileges and favours, the thought of equality is abhorrent to them. These lying hypocrites show their true miserable racist colours time and again and the gullible pathetic NZ media swallows their lies every time. Why is Mr Brash labelled a racist and not these lazy greedy racist maoris who want their race based privileges to continue? Only in a 3rd world basket case of a country....welcome to NZ.