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Henry Armstrong: ARDERN’S UNDRIP PLAN – THE CO-GOVERNMENT “SOFTENING UP” PROCESS BEGINS
A pre-Anzac weekend statement by Maori Development Minister Jackson (21 April 2022) refers to an “indigenous rights plan”, which is being worked upon by Maori-but is not to be released for public consultation until at least June.
In a carefully-crafted press release, Jackson selectively releases “feedback from the first phase of targeted engagement with Maori on developing a plan to implement UNDRIP”. Note the lack of engagement with anybody else?
Note also that this statement was released (or dumped) on a Friday preceding a long weekend, a tactic which dilutes the impact of controversial issues when peoples’ attention is focused on other things. The Ardern government employed exactly the same tactic prior to the long Easter holiday weekend: the Pae Ora Select Committee report; bad news on cost of living increases effectively muted; and a focus instead on Ardern’s much-vaunted overseas trip, to Singapore and Japan, accompanied, of course, by the usual numerous bunch of media sycophants. Of particular note in the pre-Easter dump was any reference in the Pae Ora report on the proposed Maori Health Authority right of veto, which seems to have been dropped?
It is clear that Ardern’s government plans to produce a document which sets out a future plan for Maori only, at the expense of parliamentary democracy and the civil and human rights of 84% of the New Zealand population........
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2022/05/henry-armstrong-arderns-undrip-plan-co.html
David Cohen: NEW ZEALAND'S MAORI LANGUAGE OBSESSION IS BAFFLING KIWIS
New Zealand’s borders have finally reopened after a two-year Covid shutdown. But those who travel down under are in for a surprise. Prime minister Jacinda Ardern recently said that New Zealand is ‘not the same place it was ten years ago’. As far as the local language goes, she’s certainly on to something, as newcomers are set to discover.
Planning to go anywhere near the site of the country’s deadly 2019 volcanic eruption? That’s White Island, right? Erm, not quite. It’s Whakaari, actually. How about that perennial drawcard, the garden city of Christchurch, with its tidal wave of English roses and other pilgrim flowers? Try saying Otautahi. Ditto the nearby city of Dunedin, which used to bill itself as the Edinburgh of the South Island and even offers degree courses in Scottish studies at the local university. Otepoti, please. Oh, and the South Island? Te Waipounamu, thank you very much.
The UK supplies more tourists to New Zealand than any of the 60 visa-waiver countries that are now allowed back to these shaky isles. But even visitors who feel they know the sights intimately may find the changing nomenclature on street signs baffling.....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2022/05/david-cohen-new-zealands-maori-language.html
John Franklin: “I AM NOT PAKEHA, I AM A KIWI.”
Have you ever filled in a form, especially one from the government, and the closest ethnic definition that you can select is Pakeha or European or Pakeha/European, yet you identify with neither?
Regrettably, I have been coerced and have selected Pakeha or European rather than make a new category under “Other” and hand write in “New Zealander” or “Kiwi”.
I find it unacceptable that despite our feedback over several decades, the government are still coercing the Pakeha identity on New Zealanders with European ancestry and am sure other ethnic groups have a similar frustration.....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2022/05/john-franklin-i-am-not-pakeha-i-am-kiwi.html
Karl du Fresne: SQUEEZE YOUR EYES SHUT, CROSS YOUR FINGERS AND HOPE
The Three Waters project is a con and a fiasco on every level.
First, it fails to satisfy even the most basic democratic test. A system in which the nation’s water infrastructure is run by opaque “entities” where 16 percent of the population wields 50 percent of the power (and that’s assuming the representatives of the iwi elite truly speak for all people of Maori descent, which is far from assured) makes a mockery of representative government.
Second, and in addition to the above, it severs the links by which the public is able to exercise control over infrastructure that it owns. The recent attempt to overcome opposition to Three Waters by tweaking the shareholding arrangements, so as to create an illusion of financial control by councils, was a feat of prestidigitation that fooled no one......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2022/05/karl-du-fresne-squeeze-your-eyes-shut.html
Wendy Geus: A MOMENT OF SILENCE PLEASE FOR THE DEATH OF FREE SPEECH
Russell Rimmington, former Chair of Waikato Regional Council, is the first major casualty of the Government’s radical He Puapua policy. He was sacked for having an opinion, contrary to the politically correct view of the day. When discussing the polarising Three Waters policy earlier this year, he dared to express concerns over:
“Māori gaining control of water and that farmers and horticulturalists could be at their “beck and call”.
Some of his colleagues stated that the comment was ‘racist’. Really? Isn’t giving one race power over another racist?......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2022/05/wendy-geus-moment-of-silence-please-for.html
A pre-Anzac weekend statement by Maori Development Minister Jackson (21 April 2022) refers to an “indigenous rights plan”, which is being worked upon by Maori-but is not to be released for public consultation until at least June.
In a carefully-crafted press release, Jackson selectively releases “feedback from the first phase of targeted engagement with Maori on developing a plan to implement UNDRIP”. Note the lack of engagement with anybody else?
Note also that this statement was released (or dumped) on a Friday preceding a long weekend, a tactic which dilutes the impact of controversial issues when peoples’ attention is focused on other things. The Ardern government employed exactly the same tactic prior to the long Easter holiday weekend: the Pae Ora Select Committee report; bad news on cost of living increases effectively muted; and a focus instead on Ardern’s much-vaunted overseas trip, to Singapore and Japan, accompanied, of course, by the usual numerous bunch of media sycophants. Of particular note in the pre-Easter dump was any reference in the Pae Ora report on the proposed Maori Health Authority right of veto, which seems to have been dropped?
It is clear that Ardern’s government plans to produce a document which sets out a future plan for Maori only, at the expense of parliamentary democracy and the civil and human rights of 84% of the New Zealand population........
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2022/05/henry-armstrong-arderns-undrip-plan-co.html
David Cohen: NEW ZEALAND'S MAORI LANGUAGE OBSESSION IS BAFFLING KIWIS
New Zealand’s borders have finally reopened after a two-year Covid shutdown. But those who travel down under are in for a surprise. Prime minister Jacinda Ardern recently said that New Zealand is ‘not the same place it was ten years ago’. As far as the local language goes, she’s certainly on to something, as newcomers are set to discover.
Planning to go anywhere near the site of the country’s deadly 2019 volcanic eruption? That’s White Island, right? Erm, not quite. It’s Whakaari, actually. How about that perennial drawcard, the garden city of Christchurch, with its tidal wave of English roses and other pilgrim flowers? Try saying Otautahi. Ditto the nearby city of Dunedin, which used to bill itself as the Edinburgh of the South Island and even offers degree courses in Scottish studies at the local university. Otepoti, please. Oh, and the South Island? Te Waipounamu, thank you very much.
The UK supplies more tourists to New Zealand than any of the 60 visa-waiver countries that are now allowed back to these shaky isles. But even visitors who feel they know the sights intimately may find the changing nomenclature on street signs baffling.....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2022/05/david-cohen-new-zealands-maori-language.html
John Franklin: “I AM NOT PAKEHA, I AM A KIWI.”
Have you ever filled in a form, especially one from the government, and the closest ethnic definition that you can select is Pakeha or European or Pakeha/European, yet you identify with neither?
Regrettably, I have been coerced and have selected Pakeha or European rather than make a new category under “Other” and hand write in “New Zealander” or “Kiwi”.
I find it unacceptable that despite our feedback over several decades, the government are still coercing the Pakeha identity on New Zealanders with European ancestry and am sure other ethnic groups have a similar frustration.....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2022/05/john-franklin-i-am-not-pakeha-i-am-kiwi.html
Karl du Fresne: SQUEEZE YOUR EYES SHUT, CROSS YOUR FINGERS AND HOPE
The Three Waters project is a con and a fiasco on every level.
First, it fails to satisfy even the most basic democratic test. A system in which the nation’s water infrastructure is run by opaque “entities” where 16 percent of the population wields 50 percent of the power (and that’s assuming the representatives of the iwi elite truly speak for all people of Maori descent, which is far from assured) makes a mockery of representative government.
Second, and in addition to the above, it severs the links by which the public is able to exercise control over infrastructure that it owns. The recent attempt to overcome opposition to Three Waters by tweaking the shareholding arrangements, so as to create an illusion of financial control by councils, was a feat of prestidigitation that fooled no one......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2022/05/karl-du-fresne-squeeze-your-eyes-shut.html
Wendy Geus: A MOMENT OF SILENCE PLEASE FOR THE DEATH OF FREE SPEECH
Russell Rimmington, former Chair of Waikato Regional Council, is the first major casualty of the Government’s radical He Puapua policy. He was sacked for having an opinion, contrary to the politically correct view of the day. When discussing the polarising Three Waters policy earlier this year, he dared to express concerns over:
“Māori gaining control of water and that farmers and horticulturalists could be at their “beck and call”.
Some of his colleagues stated that the comment was ‘racist’. Really? Isn’t giving one race power over another racist?......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2022/05/wendy-geus-moment-of-silence-please-for.html