In my previous article I discussed at length how the Treaty of Waitangi has been weaponised by a small group of radicals and used to cast the blame onto early settlors for all of the so-called harm suffered by Maori as a result of colonisation.
I also discussed how this process seems to have accelerated over recent years particularly since the passing into law of the Treaty of Waitangi Act in 1975.
The Treaty which the Maori chiefs signed said;
Governance was ceded to the Crown
The Crown had first right of land purchase.
And Maori became British subjects, equal under the law.
What we see now isn’t honouring the Treaty, it’s exploiting it. Road blocks, occupations, demands for control over assets and spectrum, all justified by interpretations that didn’t even exist until the late 20th century.
The Treaty was just an agreement so that we could all live and work in peace. It was about fairness and should apply fairly to everyone alive today regardless of colour, creed or ancestry; justice that depends on ancestry isn’t justice at all.
There was never one overall government in New Zealand under Maori rule; the whole country was ruled on a system of tribalism following the rule of tikanga where all loyalty was afforded to the tribes each person was a member of.
The reason that the Maori chiefs signed the Treaty of Waitangi was to gain protection for their people in the first instance.
Prior to the signing of the Treaty Maori commonly practised cannibalism and slavery amongst their own tribes and after the signing of the treaty these practices were outlawed and ceased. Inter-tribal warfare had claimed approximately 40,000 of the various Maori tribes and after the signing the so-called Maori or Musket wars came to an end.
At the time of the signing of the Treaty the life expectancy for Maori was approximately 30 years and today it is approximately 75 years which has to be seen in anyone’s eyes as a general improvement.
A simple study of the statistics for the Maori people in New Zealand since the signing of the Treaty up to the current times, shows that the Maori have been very well served by the relationship with the Crown overall.
Currently we see that public discussions and the radical viewpoint has hardened into something almost spiritual where colonization is invoked with near‑religious regularity, as if repeating the word itself constitutes some type of confirmation of historical harm being suffered.
What began decades ago now seems to have turned into a narrow, obsessive viewpoint that treats colonization not as a universal human process, but as a uniquely modern moral crime—conveniently stripped of global context, scale, and historical precedent. It is not serious history, just ideological beliefs presented as repetitive moral outrage.
The previous six years of the Labour Government left New Zealand buried in debt and seriously divided by race. We now see many of the same people who caused that mess touring the country complaining about how bad things are and stating that it's the current coalition governments fault.
The true fact is that when Labour took power in 2017, annual core Crown spending was $76 billion and net core Crown debt sat at $60 billion. By the time they were comprehensively defeated in the 2023 general election, spending had hit $139 billion—an extra $63 billion every single year—and debt had more than doubled to $155 billion.
Labour quietly signed us up to the UN’s indigenous-rights action plan and rolled out a secret 2040 roadmap for co-governance (He Pua Pua).
The Labour government denied that the He Pua Pua report was in any way government policy, yet they took action in different ways that seem to respond to the recommendations within the He Pua Pua report as shown below:
Anti-Racism, Bias, and Diversity Training – To get staff to address these issues, government departments required them to undergo compulsory cultural competency training.
Changing Educational Curriculum Requirements – There was a push to expose the broader public to the supposed racial biases imbued in New Zealand’s history curriculum. As a result changes were made to the curriculum to make it heavily oriented to the history of Maori in New Zealand, with so much of that history relying on sometimes unreliable oral accounts. The themes of what was to be taught are, at best, an extremely incomplete view of our history.
It was asserted in the new curriculum that Maori chiefs did not cede sovereignty in signing the Treaty but rather entered into some kind of “partnership” with the Crown. This latter-day reinterpretation of the Treaty was simply stated as a fact, without any acknowledgement that the assertion was hotly contested, and flatly contradicted by many of the speeches recorded by Colenso in writing at the time (on 5 February 1840), and flatly contradicted also by speeches made by numerous chiefs at Kohimarama in 1860.
This is such a fundamental matter that to simply assert that a partnership was created between the Crown and Maori chiefs totally discredits any claim to objectivity which the new curriculum might have had. There are a number of assertions made as if they were uncontested and verifiable fact, when at best they are based on supposition and centuries-old oral tradition.
The Labour government spent $55 million on what they called the Public Interest Journalism Fund and although this was supposedly to support the public media through the economic downturn resulting from the international Covid 19 pandemic, one of the requirements of eligibility for that funding subsidy was that all applicants were required to “actively promote the principles of Partnership, Participation and Protection [their capitals] under Te Tiriti o Waitangi acknowledging Maori as a Te Tiriti partner”.
All applicants were required to show a “clear and obvious” commitment to the Treaty and te reo; no exceptions, and the application document stated that applicants were likely to be regarded favourably if their journalism proposals “met the definition of Maori and iwi journalism” or “report from perspectives including Pacific, pan-Asian, women, youth, children, persons with disabilities [and] other ethnic communities”.
“Maori and iwi journalism”, incidentally, was defined as being “made by Maori about Maori perspectives, issues and interests prioritising the needs of Maori”. But that’s not journalism; that’s advocacy. The two are quite different and may often be at odds.
The Labour Government passed much legislation through Parliament with the assumption that all people are not free and equal; that some are more equal than others not based on the matters before them, not based on any particular expertise they may have, but based on their ethnic background.
The fact of the matter was that by going down this pathway they started saying that, actually, some members are better qualified based on their demographic characteristics to address a matter than others and as a result we found our country being divided on the basis of ethnic background; A place where some members are denied equal political rights on this basis of ethnic background.
The Labour government and its so-called Maori caucus, was promoting a 50/50 system of race based governance presided over by a tribal elite of unelected Maori representatives which would have been bad for the majority of the Maori population and also all of New Zealand’s other races.
The Labour government of New Zealand was in my opinion never honest with their population in relation to their aims around the use of the Maori language. There was a move to rename our country as Aotearoa which seemed to have been driven/supported by the defeated Labour Government.
The most important thing about a name is the value of recognition that a name gives.
Given that the mere mention of a name gives us an instant understanding of what/who is being referred to by that name.
At the 2020 election there was no mention of many of the issues that were implemented by the Labour government after that election (such as renaming our country as Aotearoa and He Pua Pua) and it is my belief that many of these issues were deliberately not mentioned as they may have had an effect on the result of the election.
The mainstream media now routinely replace the name New Zealand with the name Aotearoa and New Zealand seems to never be mentioned at all, yet Aotearoa is a recently made up name for New Zealand.
The name of our country is New Zealand not Aotearoa and many companies have spent millions of dollars advertising that fact so that it is instantly recognisable that products offered for sale on the international markets are made in New Zealand.
And yet without the slightest attempt to ascertain whether the public wanted to change our country’s name, the Labour Government increasingly referred to our country as “Aotearoa”.
The reality is that for the overwhelming majority of New Zealanders the Maori language has no practical value and that, despite heroic efforts to revive the language, it is spoken by a diminishing proportion of Maori.
Personally, I have no problem with teaching the Maori language to those who wish to learn it. But we in New Zealand are extremely fortunate to have English as our predominant language, the language of science, the language of aviation, the language of finance, and the language which will get you understood in almost every country in the world.
If I was to promote a Pakeha only political party you would hear the screams of protest from around the world not just here in New Zealand, yet we still put up with a political party which is race based; “Te Pati Maori”.
This is nothing more than racism cloaked as some sort of obligatory right for Maori.
The Maori Party is only in Parliament because they have guaranteed Maori seats, but in today’s times this is an anachronism that should have been done away with a long time ago. In fact it was recommended by The 1986 Royal Commission on the Electoral System, in their report titled; Towards a Better Democracy which recommended:
They warned that if New Zealand adopted MMP without removing the reserved Maori seats, Maori would be over-represented in Parliament and would have a disproportionate and dangerous influence on the running of the country and that’s exactly how it has turned out.
Maori make up 12.3% of the population that is of voting age yet there are currently 33 MPs of Maori descent across all six parties in Parliament.
In his 1985 book Shadows over New Zealand, the former Communist Geoff McDonald revealed how the Maori Sovereignty movement was using Marxist strategies to gain power:
They believe that the key to destabilising New Zealand is to show how badly the Maori is treated. When enough lies are told and often enough people begin to believe they are actually truths.
For decades we have seen tribal leaders scheming how to get control of our country and the use of claims of partnership under the Treaty of Waitangi have been to the fore in their attempts to achieve co-governance of New Zealand.
The truth is that there is no real oppression of Maori within New Zealand and if the history is researched it is easily proven that since the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, Maori have generally seen a vast improvement in their personal circumstances.
The current calls for a system of “Race Based Co-governance”; effectively a return to tribalism is promising disruption and the potential of race war. New Zealand has never been so divided. The challenge of the 21st century is to oppose any talk of race based governance; support that as the Treaty stated “now we are one” and to move from division to unity with all persons being equal under the democratic system of one person one vote irrespective of colour creed or gender.
The minority of so-called elite Maori who are attempting to seize control have been working mainly in silence in the background, on infiltrating our public service and indoctrinating it into their ideological beliefs around the colonisation of New Zealand.
They plan to secure power through a new constitution based on the Treaty of Waitangi. They want all Waitangi Tribunal recommendations to be made binding, the country to be called Aotearoa, with all ‘official’ names of places and agencies in Maori, control of Education and Health, Corrections and the Police - in other words, they want to turn New Zealand into a Maori Nation State.
To achieve their goal, they have replaced their real history of tribal warfare, slavery and cannibalism, with a narrative of victimhood and grievance in order to drive a radical campaign of disinformation against the Coalition Government. Calling for mass rebellion, tensions are now so high that Maori Party insurgence has become a real threat to social order.
Insistence on a separate Maori government has built up over the decades since the formation of the Waitangi Tribunal in 1975. The Tribunal has over time constructed and publicised a complete rewriting of history – the “retrospective recrimination” and “counterfactual history” of the Tribunal, quoting the words of historian Bill Oliver. This fundamental reversal of the message and meaning of the Treaty has been aided by a captive media and the crippling of free speech.
The Waitangi Tribunal was set up to hear claims related to issues around the Treaty of Waitangi and also the actions of the early European settlers to NZ.
What began as a well-meaning effort to settle all such claims and offer an apology to those affected has since that time developed into nothing more than an industry that is focussed on claimants’ getting every last cent they are able to extract from the Crown (read taxpayers of NZ) for any and everything they can possibly dream up to make a claim in relation to.
The Tribunal was originally about redress in relation to the actions of our first European settlers but has now ended up as a vehicle which is used to try to claim as much financial reward as possible and to give absolute power to a very small section of our population.
It has become a tool used to side-line democracy and to force the total population to accept that there is some unchallengeable right for Maori through their use of “Te Reo & Tikanga”, to have a right of veto (or power) over all other races which call NZ home.
We now have what is a very small number of self-appointed so-called elite Iwi who are trying by any and every means at their disposal, to assert some sort of moral superiority over the rest of the NZ population and to try to gain power of control.
We are constantly being told that the Treaty of Waitangi created a partnership between the Crown and Maori and to fulfil this we need to adopt a system of Co-Governance with Maori.
These claims around the so-called Partnership & Co-Governance were given a huge boost by the Labour government lead by Jacinda Ardern with the preparation of the “He Pua Pua” report.
This whole idea of Co-Governance is nothing more than a racist attempt to gain control based on an erroneous interpretation of the Treaty.
Co-governance is not about the Treaty it is solely about control and getting the monetary benefits that go with having control. It’s about a small percentage of the population (approximately 17%) getting fifty percent of control based on their ethnicity and the others (approximately 83%) getting the rest.
We are told repeatedly by the so-called elite from Iwi that this is the only way forward to honour the Treaty. But in fact this is nothing more than moving from the democratic system of government we have had since the signing of the Treaty to a system of racial discrimination where equality in government has no place as it will be replaced by a person’s ethnicity.
Over decades since the signing of the Treaty, the so called Maori elite have gained positions of power and influence through division and deceit. The Waitangi Tribunal has morphed into an almost permanent commission of inquiry into contemporary breaches of the Treaty with jurisdiction extended to include already-settled historic claims and anything else that can be quantified, giving rise to what has become a multi-billion dollar Treaty gravy train.
It was also during this period of time that the claim that Maori are a Treaty ‘partner’ with the Crown gained traction, with special Maori consultation rights and privileges included in the new Resource Management Act; Although there was no mention anywhere in the Treaty that related to partnership.
What we have now is a system of ideological indoctrination which is cloaked in cultural empathy, enforced by social shame, and hidden behind a virtue signalling sea of Maori culture with our public servants scrambling to prove their cultural credentials and enforcing a cultural ideology across every aspect of national life rather than concentrating on delivering basic services.
The so-called elite have used Maori culture and Te Ao Maori (the Maori world view) to assert their claims for some type of right under the Treaty of Waitangi, to be given the right of co-governance, when in actual fact there is no basis in truth for this assertion.
You’re not allowed to question it. You’re not allowed to ask for clarity. If you do, you’re dismissed as backward, racist, colonial; a problem to be fixed or, preferably, ignored.
Attempts to racialise New Zealand through implementation of co-governance, has provoked significant public complaint. Government has a duty to uphold the Rule of Law and protect the democratic rights of all New Zealanders.
And yet, here we are: using race-based politics and reinvented Treaty theology to alter the democratic systems which we have always stood on. It’s not a brave attempt to implement some erroneous interpretation of the Treaty of Waitangi, it’s not being bicultural; IT’S BLINDINGLY STUPID.
It’s important to remember that the Maori Party is only in Parliament because they have guaranteed Maori seats. The question that needs to now be asked is why those seats are tolerated, given they have become a power base for dangerous extremists who wish to destroy our democracy.
The Maori Party (which claims falsely, to represent the Maori population of NZ) and the self-appointed so-called tribal elite of Iwi are pushing to go back and reinstate a system of race based governance as seen in that He Puapua document.
Maori make up 12.3% of the population that is of voting age yet the Maori Party only managed to gain 2.8% of the vote in the last election.
The Maori Party are the worst enemy of our democracy with their daily activities promoting treason, rebellion, division, separatism and lying hate-filled propaganda and indoctrination.
They claim to be the indigenous people of NZ but Maori are NOT indigenous to New Zealand they arrived by boat like everyone else.
The Co-leader of Te Pati Maori Rawiri Waititi has said : “Caucasian (white people) as a species are doomed to extinction as a new Aotearoa is on the rise.”
If anyone tries to make a stand against their racist agenda they respond with threats.
Power has definitely gone to their heads; to the point where they actually imagine they are elitist and have made the outrageous claim that Maori are, quote . . . . A genetically superior race!
It was partly as a result of this situation that prior to the 2023 election the current Coalition Government parties promised to reverse race-based laws and practices.
As we approach the end of their second year in office, the big question being asked is whether enough is being done to derail the tribal juggernaut. Democracy is under threat from the claim of ‘partnership’ between the Crown and Iwi who signed the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi document.
The Prime Minister’s job is to protect our system of democracy & equality and to ensure that any threats to either are promptly and firmly opposed by, if necessary legislation, and by publicly speaking out against them.”
We are now seeing the consequences of decades of allowing vested interest groups committed to subverting democracy and seizing power for their own enrichment, to infiltrate all levels of government in New Zealand both central and local.
Insistence on a separate Maori government has built up over the decades since the formation of the Waitangi Tribunal in 1975. The Tribunal has over time constructed and publicised a complete rewriting of history – the “retrospective recrimination” and “counterfactual history” of the Tribunal, quoting the words of historian Bill Oliver. This fundamental reversal of the message and meaning of the Treaty has been aided by a captive media and the crippling of free speech.
After approximately fifty years of working to weave racial privilege deep into the New Zealand’s legislative framework, Iwi leaders are not only fighting any attempts to remove that privilege but to also extend it as far and as fast as possible before the Coalition Government can enact legislation to reverse race-based laws and practices.
In 2017, when Jacinda Ardern became Prime Minister and Labour won all of the Maori seats, the incremental approach to institutional capture was replaced by a coordinated strategy spearheaded by a new government agency working in collaboration with tribal leaders.
The Office of Maori-Crown Relations reshaped the State sector from within, embedding a radical Treaty indoctrination framework across government - and when Labour won a majority in 2020; they revealed He Puapua, their secret blueprint to replace democracy with tribal rule.
Virtually every government agency was targeted by He Puapua activists and if the Labour-appointed radicals within the State sector are not ousted, government agencies will continue their journey towards a Maori Nation State.
A classic example of this is seen in the actions of the Local Government Commission in developing a universal code of conduct for elected members of local authorities, the draft of which includes a Treaty clause aligned with Labour’s He Puapua agenda. This comes in spite of a recent High Court ruling confirming that local authorities are not Treaty partners, and that councillors therefore hold no Treaty obligations.
Over the years, with pro-active support from Labour, the tribal sovereignty movement has embedded the framework for a separatist nation-state deep within government institutions. This constitutional transformation was never approved by the public - yet it continues to shape policy, funding, and governance.
The constitutional transformation of our public service bureaucracy is not about creating a shared heritage and a unifying shared modern culture, it’s solely about domination of the national direction, and with it comes a cultural outlook that most of us never consented to and get punished if we try to resist.
If we try to push back, we’re dismissed, branded as bigots, called colonisers and in many cases accused of being white supremacists, no matter our actual ethnicity, background, or intent.
The cost of race-based payoffs is now millions – if not billions - of dollars. If the Coalition is serious about growing our economy, they must free the country from this cultural insanity. All race-based consultation should be removed, including from fast-track legislation, National Policy Statements, and the RMA replacements.
After fifty years of being allowed to virtually have their own way, tribal groups have become powerful and dangerous. They see themselves as de-facto rulers, and if things don’t go their way, they do not hesitate to bully and intimidate, demand and threaten, and with very deep pockets, resort to legal action through a ‘captured’ court system, until opponents cave in.
Stopping the tribal takeover is what National, ACT and New Zealand First promised to do when they agreed to prioritise “Ending race-based policies” in their Coalition Agreement.
There can be no mature discussion about our future as a country until everybody accepts that the Treaty provided for the government to have final authority, with all citizens - no matter their ancestry - having equal rights.
We must stop being afraid to say it. This is not just wrong. It is corrosive. A separatist political model based on racial ancestry belongs in 19th-century Apartheid South Africa, not 21st-century New Zealand.
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By Andy Loader, Poke the Bear