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Northland Age 22/10/19
SOME ASPIRATION
A currently (undated) report by Stuff informs us that Waikato University, actively supported by Prime Minister Ardern and, surprise, surprise, the so-called Maori ‘king,’ plans to use $90 million of taxpayers’ money to build a replica Maori pa¯ .
And Vice-Chancellor Quigley crows that it “would really be a symbol of the aspirations of this university.” Well, why wouldn’t he?
But, hey, wait a minute! Even today, $90m is quite a lot of money, which would build quite a lot of houses — by my rough calculation, about 300 of them to provide good homes for, say, 1500 homeless people, many of them Maori. Moreover, as the tenants of those homes would pay fair rents, a constant supply of funds would become available for yet more homes to be built for the homeless.
Which is to be preferred — that or meeting Professor Quigley’s “aspiration’s”.
BRUCE MOON, Nelson
Northern Advocate 22/10/19
LET'S DROP THE LABELS
Maire Kaire (October 11) writes: "There being NO full-blooded race now in NZ" and yet says "a better understanding and relationship between Tauiwi and Maori?" — I believe the time has come to drop the labels and become New Zealanders.
She goes on to say both sides of the story have to be "told, taught and acknowledged". History is about truth and verifiable facts, not sides telling stories. Physical evidence and written records must take precedence over generational oral accounts (Chinese whispers). The compulsory history curriculum must be factual and complete as is possible.
I suspect Kaire is a supporter of the Maori nationalist movement and these people are the drivers behind the push for compulsory NZ history in schools and so-called decolonisation.
This process has already started. The New Zealand Centre for Political Research writes in a must-read article — "Through the unprecedented denigration of Captain Cook and other historical leaders as 'white supremacists', and the malicious vilification of the colonisation process, the scene is now being set for the next phase of this power grab: the indoctrination of children through fake history". And — "What . . . Maori supremacists are seeking is a radical transformation of New Zealand's constitutional framework to replace our present system of governance .. . with one that transfers authority and control to Maori".
'Decolonisation' may mean different things to different people, but it is my understanding that New Zealand (part-Maori and non-Maori) became fully and legally independent (decolonised) in 1986.
GEOFF PARKER, Kamo
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers
SOME ASPIRATION
A currently (undated) report by Stuff informs us that Waikato University, actively supported by Prime Minister Ardern and, surprise, surprise, the so-called Maori ‘king,’ plans to use $90 million of taxpayers’ money to build a replica Maori pa¯ .
And Vice-Chancellor Quigley crows that it “would really be a symbol of the aspirations of this university.” Well, why wouldn’t he?
But, hey, wait a minute! Even today, $90m is quite a lot of money, which would build quite a lot of houses — by my rough calculation, about 300 of them to provide good homes for, say, 1500 homeless people, many of them Maori. Moreover, as the tenants of those homes would pay fair rents, a constant supply of funds would become available for yet more homes to be built for the homeless.
Which is to be preferred — that or meeting Professor Quigley’s “aspiration’s”.
BRUCE MOON, Nelson
Northern Advocate 22/10/19
LET'S DROP THE LABELS
Maire Kaire (October 11) writes: "There being NO full-blooded race now in NZ" and yet says "a better understanding and relationship between Tauiwi and Maori?" — I believe the time has come to drop the labels and become New Zealanders.
She goes on to say both sides of the story have to be "told, taught and acknowledged". History is about truth and verifiable facts, not sides telling stories. Physical evidence and written records must take precedence over generational oral accounts (Chinese whispers). The compulsory history curriculum must be factual and complete as is possible.
I suspect Kaire is a supporter of the Maori nationalist movement and these people are the drivers behind the push for compulsory NZ history in schools and so-called decolonisation.
This process has already started. The New Zealand Centre for Political Research writes in a must-read article — "Through the unprecedented denigration of Captain Cook and other historical leaders as 'white supremacists', and the malicious vilification of the colonisation process, the scene is now being set for the next phase of this power grab: the indoctrination of children through fake history". And — "What . . . Maori supremacists are seeking is a radical transformation of New Zealand's constitutional framework to replace our present system of governance .. . with one that transfers authority and control to Maori".
'Decolonisation' may mean different things to different people, but it is my understanding that New Zealand (part-Maori and non-Maori) became fully and legally independent (decolonised) in 1986.
GEOFF PARKER, Kamo
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers