By elocal magazine
Part Three:
Watch MJ interview Geoff Neal as they conclude their discussion about his recent public submission about the Treaty Principals Bill. He collated and presented a wealth of information using his organisation thefacts.nz which analyses facts and data from all New Zealand datasets and presents them as they are, something the mainstream media tends to gloss over.
MJ: Welcome back to part three, Geoff this is such an interesting topic, Geoff. I mean, it just gets better and better as more we go in. We're talking about the flawed ethnicity data.
GN: Yeah, so I mean, if anyone wants to dive deeper into the flaws around the ethnicity data or the descent data or, you know, the lack of race data, then in Submission seven, they can find a lot more details. But because of this, we're like, we haven't got a clear answer of what percentage of the country is Maori.
Because I always use the example that Neanderthal man, right? We're all 1 to 4%, roughly Neanderthal. So 100% of us are part Neanderthal, but we're only like maybe 2% as a country Neanderthal.
And that's the problem we have with some of this Maori data is that a lot of the left are trying to weaponize us to say there's a million Maori now there's one in five of us, 20%. But actually if you, if you took all of our blood ancestry as a country and we've made an attempt to try and create this and we want this peer reviewed, so if anyone out there is a statistician can help with this, a lot of the organizations are running a mile because they know exactly what we're on to.
But it looks like about 9% of the country is made up of Maori blood ancestry, about 66% Caucasian to 2/3, about 16% Asian, 9% Maori, 6% Pacifica. That is if you take up everyone's little percentages and you add them all up.
All of it of all our race. So we've asked Parliament peer review this as well.
MJ: Yeah, well, I want to come back to that. 9% Maori. So what is that?
Where's the Heat Map from there. Which country is that from? Because they, they arrived, what, 1250 here somewhere around about then, right. They say that they came, you know, I mean, so, so hang on a sec. So, but what's their makeup of that 9%?
Because I did a National Geographic test with Monica Matamua, who is from the tribe, the Patuparairahi. Sorry, from Patuparari Nga Tu. She's the. That's the actual tribe and that's down Tamara Nui Way.
And her, her ethnicity, she claimed at the Time that her Fuka papa went back 74 generations, which is double that of Coupe. And so we did the test and we sent it off to National Geographic to the DNA test and she came back and she's like, you know, I mean, she.
Reddish hair, green eyes, olive complexion with freckles, and that's a, a trait of the Natuhotu. So when the results came back, there was no Pacifica, there was no Maori as such.
It all came, most of it was Central, Middle Eastern, from old Persia. So, you know, and then she talked about Rata and the legends that they had coming back through their bloodline.
That was fascinating. Absolutely fascinating. Then when you got into it, when you, when you started asking a bit more about the Waitangi Tribunal. Well, the Waitangi Tribunal said that they were extinct and they weren't. They weren't given any, any access to anything involved with the Waitangi Tribunal.
GN: I'll be very clear here that this is an estimate, this is a new hypothesis. So I'm not saying this is accurate. I'm saying no one else has done this. And we're making an attempt. And the way we do this is we take, we multiply all the ethnicity tables so you can work out if someone is.
Let's use a really easy example. If a New Zealander says that they are part Caucasian and, and I prefer to use the term Caucasian to European because it's a bit confusing. If we're going to use Asian and Polynesian Maori, we should use Caucasian. But if you're part Caucasian and you are part Asian, for example, or you're part Maori, you're more likely to be more Caucasian, you know, just on pure probability statistics of who we are as a people.
Now, that's. So you can't allocate just 50, 50. You can't say if someone's European and Maori, they're 50, 50. No, that's not, that's not our blood ancestry. That's, that's not a fair way to apportion if we want an accurate measure. So we have used a technique to fairly apportion everyone's ethnicity answers, and it comes out at this 9% Maori ancestry, which does check out against some other sort of feelings of, you know, like the Maori roll is about 8%, I think.
So of all voters, it's a bit less than that. So I'd love someone to check this and I'd love some peer review. I'd love some help. All government organizations are running a milestone. Z doesn't want to check it as they note that this is not a popular discussion to have and we need to get to the bottom of this if we're going to talk about ancestry and race and ethnicity so much. Let's get some accurate data.
Now let's get onto the final submission which was representation and referendum. When we get down to it, I've had this debate with MPs in the past and they've said, but Geoff, why do we need these polls? Why do we need the referendums? You vote us in at council level or central government level to represent you.
We are elected representatives and I go back to them and say, are not representing us. You are not representing our wishes. You're not even representing your own voters. Look at this Treaty principles bill. We don't have National Party or the New Zealand first representing their voters. We don't have labor or Greens or Maori or, you know, the other parties representing their voters.
They have taken a binary opposition position to this bill. They have not representing the people. And it's not just on the Treaty Principles bill either. I'll go back to Three Waters, another very contentious issue in recent history in New Zealand.
And look at this. We're talking about submissions for the Treaty Principles Bill. But on the Water Services Entity Bill, which was the first three waters bill, 99% of submissions opposed the bill. I've got lots of other polling to show that people did not like Three Waters, but this one really sticks out is that when have we ever had in our history and this is 85,000 submissions.
Whenever we ever had 99% of the people for or against something, this never happens. And labor ignored all these New Zealand. It's one of the reasons they lost the election. They just totally lost the room. Maori Wards, you will hear more from me in this data.
This year we've got 43 referendums coming out later this year in local councils. We've had 17 so far. How many media ever talk about? 15 of the 17 to date failed. New Zealanders did not want them. 88% of Mori Ward referendums have failed.
There's the graph. Here's the individual breakdown of all the areas and there's a consistent theme here that 2.5 times more Kiwis oppose Mori wards than support them. That is in the data of the referendums.
Yet despite all of this, despite all of this opposition to Mori wards and how undemocratic it is, we're going to have 43 more referendums in the council elections later this year. This has come from the Department of Internal Affairs.
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