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DEMOCRACY ACTION NEWSLETTER - December 2021
Season’s greetings to you!
Thank goodness Christmas and summer holidays are just around the corner. However, we haven't taken our foot off the pedal just yet. Here’s another newsletter updating some of the current issues of concern, with suggestions of actions you can take to help. This includes a reminder of the fast-approaching deadline to have your say on the Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Bill. The submission process closes at 11:59 pm on Thursday 9 December.
Under this legislation the government is to establish a racially segregated health system, co-governed by Māori. This radical policy is justified in the explanatory note prefacing the Bill: “For Māori in particular, the health system does not operate in partnership and does not meet the Crown’s obligations under te Tiriti o Waitangi (the Treaty of Waitangi)”.
For further information and instructions on how to make a submission, please visit our website, HERE. You might like to also read an interesting commentary by Conan Tait, ‘the Jacinda government’s planned race-based Two Tier Health System’ , recently posted on the Waikanae Watch site.
Ever since Labour won the election outright just one long year ago, we have witnessed a spike in anti-democratic measures being foisted on us, confirming our fears that this government has a race-based co-governance agenda, centred on the ‘Treaty is a partnership’ mythology. The health reform bill and the undemocratic Three Waters programme are part of this push. As are proposed changes to Department of Conservation (DOC) policy, with recommendations that the entire DOC estate be reformed, the Conservation Act replaced, and the functions and powers of the DOC estate delegated, devolved, and transferred to tangata whenua. Some of these recommendations are already being implemented. You can read more about this at ‘The Department of Conservation Co-governance?’ below.
It is not only central government pushing this ideology - local government too is also jumping on the Treaty partnership bandwagon. At a recent meeting of the Rotorua District Council, the Mayor and her supporters called for a law change to achieve a 50/50 co-governance representation structure. If successful, this would be a gross corruption of the democratic principles of equal suffrage. You can read more about this at ‘Rotorua’s Manipulated Representation Decision’, by Rotorua Councillor Reynold Macpherson.
And here in Auckland the Draft Regional Parks’ Management Plan reveals an intention to introduce co-governance of all 28 regional parks. If adopted this means that the parks, council owned and maintained by all the ratepayers of Auckland, will be co-governed by representatives of just 11% of the population. (Although in practice this is not strictly the case, as only the interests of a small fraction of the 11% would be represented). You have three months from December 10 to have your say on this Plan. See more on this at PROPOSED CO-GOVERNANCE OF ALL 28 AUCKLAND REGIONAL PARKS below.
Even the Hauraki Gulf Forum is not immune - in a blatant grab for political power.......
Read the full newsletter here > www.democracyaction.org.nz/december_2021
Season’s greetings to you!
Thank goodness Christmas and summer holidays are just around the corner. However, we haven't taken our foot off the pedal just yet. Here’s another newsletter updating some of the current issues of concern, with suggestions of actions you can take to help. This includes a reminder of the fast-approaching deadline to have your say on the Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Bill. The submission process closes at 11:59 pm on Thursday 9 December.
Under this legislation the government is to establish a racially segregated health system, co-governed by Māori. This radical policy is justified in the explanatory note prefacing the Bill: “For Māori in particular, the health system does not operate in partnership and does not meet the Crown’s obligations under te Tiriti o Waitangi (the Treaty of Waitangi)”.
For further information and instructions on how to make a submission, please visit our website, HERE. You might like to also read an interesting commentary by Conan Tait, ‘the Jacinda government’s planned race-based Two Tier Health System’ , recently posted on the Waikanae Watch site.
Ever since Labour won the election outright just one long year ago, we have witnessed a spike in anti-democratic measures being foisted on us, confirming our fears that this government has a race-based co-governance agenda, centred on the ‘Treaty is a partnership’ mythology. The health reform bill and the undemocratic Three Waters programme are part of this push. As are proposed changes to Department of Conservation (DOC) policy, with recommendations that the entire DOC estate be reformed, the Conservation Act replaced, and the functions and powers of the DOC estate delegated, devolved, and transferred to tangata whenua. Some of these recommendations are already being implemented. You can read more about this at ‘The Department of Conservation Co-governance?’ below.
It is not only central government pushing this ideology - local government too is also jumping on the Treaty partnership bandwagon. At a recent meeting of the Rotorua District Council, the Mayor and her supporters called for a law change to achieve a 50/50 co-governance representation structure. If successful, this would be a gross corruption of the democratic principles of equal suffrage. You can read more about this at ‘Rotorua’s Manipulated Representation Decision’, by Rotorua Councillor Reynold Macpherson.
And here in Auckland the Draft Regional Parks’ Management Plan reveals an intention to introduce co-governance of all 28 regional parks. If adopted this means that the parks, council owned and maintained by all the ratepayers of Auckland, will be co-governed by representatives of just 11% of the population. (Although in practice this is not strictly the case, as only the interests of a small fraction of the 11% would be represented). You have three months from December 10 to have your say on this Plan. See more on this at PROPOSED CO-GOVERNANCE OF ALL 28 AUCKLAND REGIONAL PARKS below.
Even the Hauraki Gulf Forum is not immune - in a blatant grab for political power.......
Read the full newsletter here > www.democracyaction.org.nz/december_2021