Post by Kiwi Frontline on Mar 27, 2024 9:36:41 GMT 12
Barrie Davis: STATE OF THE NATION RANT.
We are repeatedly told the Treaty is our founding document when there are other documents that fulfil that function. We are repeatedly told that there are principles in the Treaty when anyone who has read it can see that none is mentioned. We are repeatedly told that one of those principles is partnership leading to co-governance when the Treaty has long been held to be the Maori Magna Carta – an agreement between a King and his subject barons. By repeated recitation we are being conditioned to accept a contrived constitutional arrangement that is neither a democracy nor fair and reasonable. We are being manipulated.
This stuff has been written all through our legislation without a democratic mandate. We are being compelled to go on courses to be indoctrinated with this stuff or we will lose our livelihood. Our history is being rewritten and our children are being indoctrinated with this stuff at school......
........We are only a few months into the new term and we are already seeing watering down of election objectives. The Maori Health Authority is being disestablished in name only with funding, roles and functions, including the Iwi Māori Partnership Boards and the Hauora Maori Advisory Committee, being moved to Health New Zealand or the Ministry of Health. And the Comments section hot mumble on Three Waters is that management of fresh water will be staying under Maori co-governance and with Te Mana o Te Wai provisions. We need closure on these things, not a never-ending source of conflict.....
Read the full article here > breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2024/03/barrie-davis-state-of-nation-rant.html
We are repeatedly told the Treaty is our founding document when there are other documents that fulfil that function. We are repeatedly told that there are principles in the Treaty when anyone who has read it can see that none is mentioned. We are repeatedly told that one of those principles is partnership leading to co-governance when the Treaty has long been held to be the Maori Magna Carta – an agreement between a King and his subject barons. By repeated recitation we are being conditioned to accept a contrived constitutional arrangement that is neither a democracy nor fair and reasonable. We are being manipulated.
This stuff has been written all through our legislation without a democratic mandate. We are being compelled to go on courses to be indoctrinated with this stuff or we will lose our livelihood. Our history is being rewritten and our children are being indoctrinated with this stuff at school......
........We are only a few months into the new term and we are already seeing watering down of election objectives. The Maori Health Authority is being disestablished in name only with funding, roles and functions, including the Iwi Māori Partnership Boards and the Hauora Maori Advisory Committee, being moved to Health New Zealand or the Ministry of Health. And the Comments section hot mumble on Three Waters is that management of fresh water will be staying under Maori co-governance and with Te Mana o Te Wai provisions. We need closure on these things, not a never-ending source of conflict.....
Read the full article here > breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2024/03/barrie-davis-state-of-nation-rant.html