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Bob Edlin: RIO TINTO DEAL WITH THE ARDERN GOVT INCLUDES NGAI TAHU
But the PM, helped by some of her ministerial team., has urged the company to do something about its toxic waste and – hurrah – the company has obliged.
The company has made a raft of commitments, including recognising Ngai Tahu (a least by the looks of things) as an organisation akin to a co-governor.
In fact, in the press statement from the Beehive Ngai Tahu is listed ahead of the central and local government bodies involved in the agreement.
The company will work with Ngāi Tahu, MfE and Environment Southland and government officials on some aspects of its operations and it will share soil contamination data with the tribe as well as with Environment Southland and MfE.
It will work closely with Ngāi Tahu, too, to ensure “the cultural significance of Tiwai Point” is taken into considerations......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2021/05/bob-edlin-rio-tinto-deal-with-ardern.html#more
Clive Bibby: RUNNING OUT OF OPTIONS
The Prime Minister’s denials are becoming a flood.
Last week in Parliament she was forced to distance herself and Labour from the highly toxic He Puapua report as if it was not of her making, simply an aspirational expression of Maori plans for future development - one commissioned by others who were supposedly only floating ideas. In response to repeated questioning from the Leader of the Opposition, she claimed that it would be going nowhere during this parliamentary term.
No matter that the ideas included in the report sounded very much like they had the backing of not only Iwi throughout the country who had been engaged with senior government officials on this and other topics at hui in recent months, but also those at the highest level in this administration.
Are we to believe that those talks were not sanctioned by this government and it was all a waste of time. If that is not the case then the PM has some work to do convincing voters that she is not a liar that would put Baron Munchausen in the shade......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2021/05/clive-bibby-running-out-of-options.html#more
Gerry Eckhoff: THE STAFF OF LIFE
Ngai Tahu are one of the South Islands most astute investors, but with a top tax rate of 19% it is hard to see Ngai Tahu being anything else but successful. It’s also hard to see them wanting to get involved in aging urban water piping infrastructure. Rather, their interest is likely to be designed around water takes where a levy could be easily implemented as all water takes are now monitored. If that is to happen now or into the future, then it must be declared. Ngai Tahu play the long game and are extremely good at it so perhaps the Leader of the Oppositions recent comments around Maori objectives with this issue could or do ‘hold water.’
It is therefore reasonable to ask whether Maori interests in water should be seen as a threat or an opportunity to all water users. It is possible that Maoridom could end up as being perfectly reasonable stewards of fresh water. Maori leaders who say they wish to stop privatisation of fresh water need to explain how their 50% control differs from privatisation.
The government must first adhere to a simple principle – trust the people - ask the people. They won’t of course as Jacinda has learnt that you can change the name of our country without discussion and no media outlet has challenged her on that issue so I guess water ownership will be walk in the park. It’s easy to accept that the National Party is taking the knee on this issue......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2021/05/gerry-eckhoff-staff-of-life.html
Henry Armstrong: THE TRANSFER OF POLITICAL POWER: UNCONSTITUTIONAL; UNDEMOCRATIC; UNDERHAND; UNWISE – on AR & NZCPR
In a highly significant post on NZCPR of 28 February 2021, former ACT MP Muriel Newman penned an astonishingly erudite and profound article entitled: “The Corruption of Democracy” - see here > www.nzcpr.com/the-corruption-of-democracy/
THIS POST SHOULD BE READ BY EVERY THINKING NEW ZEALANDER as it neatly describes the hidden transfer of political and economic power from the ruling parliament, to a “co-governed” New Zealand comprising a 50/50 power share between our Maori people (16%) of the population, and everybody else (84%), by 2040. One can only imagine the disastrous social and economic outcomes which this transfer will undoubtedly bring in its wake. Dr Newman’s article instigated literally hundreds of online responses objecting to this potential constitutional disaster.
A few weeks later, 1-2 May 2021, National Party leader Judith Collins , in a speech to National Party members in Auckland, also raised the spectre of the demise of democracy in New Zealand when she quite correctly challenged the neo-Marxist Ardern government to “come clean” on their plans (very quickly denied by Minister Davis) to accord our Maori people, an ethnic minority, a full 50% governance role in the political governance of new Zealand by 2040.......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2021/05/henry-armstrong-transfer-of-political.html
MAORI PARTY V THE REST OF US – Rodney Hide
Māori Party co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer wrote a rip-snorter for the Herald on Wednesday.
She neatly explained how she divides New Zealanders into three groups: (1) tangata of the whenua (people of the land), (2) tangata of the tiriti (people of the treaty), and (3) people like me who disagree with her.
She leaves no room for doubt that her schema is hierarchical. The people of the land were first and had no need for the treaty. The people of the treaty need the treaty, recognise treaty partnership and are "comfortable loudly declaring they're recovering racists".
These people "stood side by side with us fighting for Māori wards" and other causes dear to the Māori Party.
The rest of us by implication are non-recovering racists.
www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/maori-party-v-the-rest-of-us
But the PM, helped by some of her ministerial team., has urged the company to do something about its toxic waste and – hurrah – the company has obliged.
The company has made a raft of commitments, including recognising Ngai Tahu (a least by the looks of things) as an organisation akin to a co-governor.
In fact, in the press statement from the Beehive Ngai Tahu is listed ahead of the central and local government bodies involved in the agreement.
The company will work with Ngāi Tahu, MfE and Environment Southland and government officials on some aspects of its operations and it will share soil contamination data with the tribe as well as with Environment Southland and MfE.
It will work closely with Ngāi Tahu, too, to ensure “the cultural significance of Tiwai Point” is taken into considerations......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2021/05/bob-edlin-rio-tinto-deal-with-ardern.html#more
Clive Bibby: RUNNING OUT OF OPTIONS
The Prime Minister’s denials are becoming a flood.
Last week in Parliament she was forced to distance herself and Labour from the highly toxic He Puapua report as if it was not of her making, simply an aspirational expression of Maori plans for future development - one commissioned by others who were supposedly only floating ideas. In response to repeated questioning from the Leader of the Opposition, she claimed that it would be going nowhere during this parliamentary term.
No matter that the ideas included in the report sounded very much like they had the backing of not only Iwi throughout the country who had been engaged with senior government officials on this and other topics at hui in recent months, but also those at the highest level in this administration.
Are we to believe that those talks were not sanctioned by this government and it was all a waste of time. If that is not the case then the PM has some work to do convincing voters that she is not a liar that would put Baron Munchausen in the shade......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2021/05/clive-bibby-running-out-of-options.html#more
Gerry Eckhoff: THE STAFF OF LIFE
Ngai Tahu are one of the South Islands most astute investors, but with a top tax rate of 19% it is hard to see Ngai Tahu being anything else but successful. It’s also hard to see them wanting to get involved in aging urban water piping infrastructure. Rather, their interest is likely to be designed around water takes where a levy could be easily implemented as all water takes are now monitored. If that is to happen now or into the future, then it must be declared. Ngai Tahu play the long game and are extremely good at it so perhaps the Leader of the Oppositions recent comments around Maori objectives with this issue could or do ‘hold water.’
It is therefore reasonable to ask whether Maori interests in water should be seen as a threat or an opportunity to all water users. It is possible that Maoridom could end up as being perfectly reasonable stewards of fresh water. Maori leaders who say they wish to stop privatisation of fresh water need to explain how their 50% control differs from privatisation.
The government must first adhere to a simple principle – trust the people - ask the people. They won’t of course as Jacinda has learnt that you can change the name of our country without discussion and no media outlet has challenged her on that issue so I guess water ownership will be walk in the park. It’s easy to accept that the National Party is taking the knee on this issue......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2021/05/gerry-eckhoff-staff-of-life.html
Henry Armstrong: THE TRANSFER OF POLITICAL POWER: UNCONSTITUTIONAL; UNDEMOCRATIC; UNDERHAND; UNWISE – on AR & NZCPR
In a highly significant post on NZCPR of 28 February 2021, former ACT MP Muriel Newman penned an astonishingly erudite and profound article entitled: “The Corruption of Democracy” - see here > www.nzcpr.com/the-corruption-of-democracy/
THIS POST SHOULD BE READ BY EVERY THINKING NEW ZEALANDER as it neatly describes the hidden transfer of political and economic power from the ruling parliament, to a “co-governed” New Zealand comprising a 50/50 power share between our Maori people (16%) of the population, and everybody else (84%), by 2040. One can only imagine the disastrous social and economic outcomes which this transfer will undoubtedly bring in its wake. Dr Newman’s article instigated literally hundreds of online responses objecting to this potential constitutional disaster.
A few weeks later, 1-2 May 2021, National Party leader Judith Collins , in a speech to National Party members in Auckland, also raised the spectre of the demise of democracy in New Zealand when she quite correctly challenged the neo-Marxist Ardern government to “come clean” on their plans (very quickly denied by Minister Davis) to accord our Maori people, an ethnic minority, a full 50% governance role in the political governance of new Zealand by 2040.......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2021/05/henry-armstrong-transfer-of-political.html
MAORI PARTY V THE REST OF US – Rodney Hide
Māori Party co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer wrote a rip-snorter for the Herald on Wednesday.
She neatly explained how she divides New Zealanders into three groups: (1) tangata of the whenua (people of the land), (2) tangata of the tiriti (people of the treaty), and (3) people like me who disagree with her.
She leaves no room for doubt that her schema is hierarchical. The people of the land were first and had no need for the treaty. The people of the treaty need the treaty, recognise treaty partnership and are "comfortable loudly declaring they're recovering racists".
These people "stood side by side with us fighting for Māori wards" and other causes dear to the Māori Party.
The rest of us by implication are non-recovering racists.
www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/maori-party-v-the-rest-of-us