In line with the recommendations from the He Puapua report which was prepared under the previous Labour Government has a section titled “Vision 2040” that sets out the intention of having two separate, racially defined, government structures; New Zealand being broken apart, with no pretence of inclusivity or equality.
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 2019 He Puapua report to Government (based on a report to the Iwi Chairs Forum, Matike Mai) became known to the public in 2021.
The implementation of some of the He Puapua recommendations has begun to create two systems based on racial division and this will be nothing short of disastrous for New Zealand and its population.
Attempts to racialise New Zealand, is bound to provoke 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.
The Treaty of Waitangi, whatever your view on it, was never intended to be a constitutional framework for 21st-century co-governance. It was a political compromise scribbled down to stop people from shooting each other.
But somewhere between the Waitangi Tribunal, the Supreme Court, and an endless supply of cultural consultants, we’ve managed to turn that Treaty into a magical entitlement factory—churning out “rights” THAT IS RAPIDLY MAKING US THE BANANA REPUBLIC OF THE PACIFIC.
New Zealand is fast becoming a textbook case in how to get it wrong; how to destroy a democratic system of government and eliminate any semblance of equality for all citizens.
The latest chapter in our decline being a slow, clumsy dismantling of one of civilisation’s most basic and boringly essential inventions: clear property rights.
Ownership isn’t some abstract moral badge or spiritual whakapapa echo. It’s a practical, cold-blooded agreement about who gets to do what with what—and who’s left holding the can when things go pear-shaped.
That’s the basis of every investment decision, every land deal, every productive farm, factory, and fishery. It’s what separates a functioning economy from an elaborate anthropology project.
A classic example of how bad it can get is seen in the recent reporting regards the intentions for Port Otago and Dynes Transport to build what will be the Southern Link Logistics Park on forty hectares of land, adjacent to the railway line at Mosgiel, just south of Dunedin.
Port Otago, owned by the Otago Regional Council, operates from Port Chalmers, twelve kilometers outside Dunedin along a windy and narrow coastal road. There is a rail link but most of the freight to and from the port is transported by road.
Southern Link would be an inland port, a place where goods are brought to from their place of production to be loaded into containers and then transported to the ship - mostly by train. Inland ports are becoming a vital part of the country’s supply chain infrastructure because they’re not constrained for space by the often small narrow coastal strips around seaports.
The land that Southern Link is planned for was formerly a privately owned farm. Dynes Transport bought it with a view to building the inland port there. It would remove thousands of truck movements from the streets of Dunedin and the road to Port Chalmers each year meaning less traffic congestion and road damage.
The Dynes and Port Otago Southern Link JV have applied for consent to go ahead under the Fast Track Approvals Act.
The land has never been land owned by Maori interests for as long as land titles have existed in this country. It was freehold farmland before a zone change to make it commercial and industrial.
But there are roadblocks in the Fast Track Approvals Act. Section 11 says that any applicant for a fast track approval “must consult any relevant iwi, hapu and Treaty settlement entities.”
Remember this Act was passed only last year by the current Coalition Government, a government which pledged to “uphold the principles of liberal democracy, including the rule of law and property rights.”
Section 11 has given three Runanga in the Otago region, all members of Ngai Tahu, an opportunity to insert them into this development.
In a letter to Port Otago, it is claimed that they do not consider there to have been any meaningful engagement with the three Runanga in respect of the project to date and at this stage, the three Runanga have no choice but to oppose the referral application and the project more generally.
They have said that they want to open negotiations and set out a “Process Agreement” as how this should happen.
Part of that Agreement says that unless Southern Link JV provides support to the Runanga parties, any discussions and negotiations between the parties will not be fair and reasonable and that the Southern Link JV should provide reasonable funds to support Runanga staff, members and governance to engage with Southern Link JV on relevant matters, support Runanga parties to engage appropriate external parties to advise and support them and meet administrative, travel and logistical costs.”
This Runanga is part of Ngai Tahu which has assets of approximately $1.66 billion with extensive interests in forestry, fishing, property, tourism and agriculture and there’s every chance some of its businesses will use the Southern Link to move produce to Port Otago.
One of these Runanga is Moeraki in North Otago which is also part of Nga Runanga o Waitaki which received over a hundred million dollars last year from Meridian Energy in return for them granting water rights to generate electricity.
These three Otago based Runanga claim that the Southern Link JV has significantly greater resources but if Port Otago was listed on the share market it might generously be worth $300 million based on its property portfolio and most recent profit of $30 million. But the two JV entities together would not be worth anywhere near $1.6 billion and “do not have significantly greater resources compared to the Runanga parties.”
So for these Runanga to be demanding money to discuss and negotiate the project is yet example of what could only be described as legalised extortion.
The Southern Link JV is probably going to have to pay up as well if it wants the inland port to go ahead.
Both National, Labour and the Greens are hell bent on allowing Maori to take back almost everything in every region that they can lay their hands on.
Maorification is accelerating under National and LUXON.
Chris Luxon promised New Zealand that if he got elected he would dump co-governance but he seems to have backed away from that position, so is he a liar or has he just betrayed his supporters. Either way in my opinion it is likely to be the major issue that will cost him the next election if he does not do what he promised last time around.
I am not being a racist or anti-any culture; I just want a fair deal for every single New Zealander that lives in this country no matter what their culture.
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!
National, Labour and the Greens all seem to be hell bent on allowing Maori to take back almost everything in every region that they can lay their hands on.
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.
Prior to the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi the rule of tikanga was followed and loyalty was for those in the hapu or iwi; all others were of no importance and could be robbed of land, killed, and eaten. War bred war, as frequently a group would escape a stronger tribe and move to attack another. Fighting was strengthened by the demand for revenge, utu, and the call to defend the mana of relations and ancestors.
The calls for a system of “Race Based Co-governance”; is a terrible mistake, 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 “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.
Maori make up 12.3% of the population that is of voting age yet there are 33 MPs of Maori descent across all six parties in Parliament.
The 1986 Royal Commission on the Electoral System report: Towards a Better Democracy 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.
It is time this current government under Prime Minister Christopher Luxon, grew a pair and decided to “Fully” implement their campaign promises to do away with all race based legislation and stop all talk of co-governance at any level.
Race based governance has never succeeded anywhere and it would not be any different here in New Zealand if it was implemented.
We can have co-governance without democracy.
We can have democracy without co-governance.
But we cannot have democracy and co-governance.
Democracy will only prevail if we oppose any moves towards legislated race based co-governance policies. We need to oppose co-governance for Democracy to prevail.
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By Andy Loader, Poke the Bear