Post by Kiwi Frontline on Oct 10, 2023 5:22:16 GMT 12
FINAL THOUGHTS ON ELECTION 2023
Three years ago, on election night, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern promised to govern for all New Zealanders: “To those amongst you who may not have supported Labour before… I can promise we will be a party that governs for every New Zealander.”
Yet barely three months later, using Parliamentary urgency, she crushed the fundamental democratic right of New Zealanders to veto council decisions to introduce Maori wards.
The Herald’s Chief Political Reporter at the time, Audrey Young, was scathing about the deceit:
“The Government has made a strong case for abolishing local voters’ ability to overturn a council’s decision to establish a Maori ward. So it is unforgivable that Labour did not put it in its 2020 election manifesto. Local Government Minister Nanaia Mahuta foreshadowed the move in November, within weeks of the October election. It was clearly on Labour’s agenda all along. It may be a divisive issue but there is no excuse for Labour having hidden it at the election. No doubt Labour feared it could strengthen the arm of Act or, more importantly, of New Zealand First and did not want to take the risk of saying what it wanted to do in case the issue cost it votes.”
It turned out that abolishing petition rights wasn’t the only policy that Labour kept from the public. Their whole co-governance agenda, prescribed in the He Puapua report, was also deliberately hidden.
The problem is that New Zealand’s constitutional conventions are very clear – to be legitimate major constitutional change requires the approval of voters either through an election or a binding referendum.
Since He Puapua transfers democratic rights and public resources to the tribal elite, it represents major constitutional change. But with Labour securing no public mandate for He Puapua, all policy enactments are illegitimate. That includes race-based quotas in government tendering, the Maori Health Authority, Three Waters, and the requirement for all government agencies and many private sector organisations to commit to a Maori world view and co-governance.
If there’s a change in government, scrapping all He Puapua measures should only be the start.....
www.nzcpr.com/final-thoughts-on-election-2023/
Three years ago, on election night, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern promised to govern for all New Zealanders: “To those amongst you who may not have supported Labour before… I can promise we will be a party that governs for every New Zealander.”
Yet barely three months later, using Parliamentary urgency, she crushed the fundamental democratic right of New Zealanders to veto council decisions to introduce Maori wards.
The Herald’s Chief Political Reporter at the time, Audrey Young, was scathing about the deceit:
“The Government has made a strong case for abolishing local voters’ ability to overturn a council’s decision to establish a Maori ward. So it is unforgivable that Labour did not put it in its 2020 election manifesto. Local Government Minister Nanaia Mahuta foreshadowed the move in November, within weeks of the October election. It was clearly on Labour’s agenda all along. It may be a divisive issue but there is no excuse for Labour having hidden it at the election. No doubt Labour feared it could strengthen the arm of Act or, more importantly, of New Zealand First and did not want to take the risk of saying what it wanted to do in case the issue cost it votes.”
It turned out that abolishing petition rights wasn’t the only policy that Labour kept from the public. Their whole co-governance agenda, prescribed in the He Puapua report, was also deliberately hidden.
The problem is that New Zealand’s constitutional conventions are very clear – to be legitimate major constitutional change requires the approval of voters either through an election or a binding referendum.
Since He Puapua transfers democratic rights and public resources to the tribal elite, it represents major constitutional change. But with Labour securing no public mandate for He Puapua, all policy enactments are illegitimate. That includes race-based quotas in government tendering, the Maori Health Authority, Three Waters, and the requirement for all government agencies and many private sector organisations to commit to a Maori world view and co-governance.
If there’s a change in government, scrapping all He Puapua measures should only be the start.....
www.nzcpr.com/final-thoughts-on-election-2023/