For a Government that keeps claiming that it is not Anti-Māori, they seem to have a lot of anti-Māori policies.
Week after week after week there is a never-ending parade of anti-Māori policy this Government throw out as raw meat to their angry reactionary voting block.
This week we see this Government attempt to undermine local councils by forcing referendums on the Māori Wards and we are seeing an attempt to remove the Treaty from at least 40 acts with Treaty principles clauses!
This amounts to an erasure of Māori political aspirations at the local level and total elimination of the Treaty from law.
You can see why Māori are their Pakeha allies in biculturalism are so angry.
Not only were Māori the political punching bag to get the reactionary Right elected, but they now have to endure the indignity of having the little they have gained ripped away from them in the name of ‘democracy’.
Whose democracy?
Councils that were progressive and advanced enough to create Māori Wards are about to have their choice ripped away from them by forcing them to hold referendum to justify Māori inclusion.
Their democracy clearly doesn’t matter.
Our law has been written together and has attempted to find a path of justice, simply removing the Treaty from all law passed doesn’t serve our democracy it mutilates it!
The wider Left need to acknowledge that the fringe elements of this new Government have no intention of pausing in their culture war against Māori and the only option left is protest.
The Left need to work together so that Māori, workers, renters and the environment that are being abused by this new Government have a focused response.
There is more common ground between us than separates us and the very future of our country is being challenged and re-written by a Government that has no mandate to do so.
First published on Waatea News.
I’ve read the Treaty, and I can’t remember anything about Maori wards in there.
But of course leases in perpetuity were?
Wanker!
nothing in there about white people owning everything either .Nothing in the treaty saying that maori should hand over all their land to white settlers either or saying the white people should be able to murder as many Maori as possable and confiscate millions of acres of land
I support revitalisation of maori language, culture and perspectives in NZ, if this gives greater pride to maori and helps uplift them from various negative stats.
Today Maori number $1m and growing, and significant portion are successful people with good jobs, business and education.
Hence, do not see why there is a need for Maori wards and seats etc, when large number of maori are in parliament already without the need of special seats.
Why then should we have pakeha wards?
There are no pakeha wards as far as I know but there are not Maori standing or being elected .This is a pity but it is in their own hands to mobilize like they did at the national elections
Well if they’re not Maori wards then what are they Trevor?
And what are you and your government afraid of Trevor?
Read this again and let it sink in…
“This week we see this Government attempt to undermine local councils by forcing referendums on the Māori Wards and we are seeing an attempt to remove the Treaty from at least 40 acts with Treaty principles clauses!
This amounts to an erasure of Māori political aspirations at the local level and total elimination of the Treaty from law.”
we do here in waitomo .there maori wards have been band and when Maori are voted onto council they are sidelined asap .At the moment a red neck pommy cunt gets more say than any maori ever had
To be fair the whole ward system in local government needs to go. Wards are actually undemocratic.
In the last New Plymouth District Council election I got to vote for 5 General councilors and 6 New Plymouth ward councilors. My wife, who is on the Maori electoral role was forced to vote in the maori ward and so could only vote for 5 general and 1 maori councilor. My brother in the southern ward could likewise only vote for 1 southern councilor and 5 general. Why should I get a voice in choosing twice ad many councilors as them
There will be a Māori Parliament formed sooner rather than later–not a neo beehive building–but an ongoing political co-operation and moving assembly around the country among Māori Iwi, Hapu, Whanau, leaders forums and business interests.
Trying to disappear all things Māori is a fundamental mistake by these racist fleas and it will be coming right back at them.
Really Andrew did you read the part that promised us full undisturbed possession of our lands etc etc etc.
And to add to Peters comment perpetual leases weren’t in the TOW does that equate to theft by dubious means.
Really Andrew did you read the part that promised us full undisturbed possession of our lands etc etc etc.
And to add to Peters comment perpetual leases weren’t in the TOW does that equate to theft by dubious means.
Nathan, we have a ratshit CoC government calling for one law for all, but our Māori land up the east coast and on the west coast is locked into perpetual leases. And in the meantime, mickey mouse seemore is currently advocating for private landowners rights.
Lots of red necks on here today .Grow the fuck up and give back what you are trying to steal
As someone who wants reform of our mob rule democracy into a more representative democracy for “every” individual, I can only see Maori delivering this. Kia Kaha, Kia Mana
Even while Maori are seeking to retain representation in the national legislature and local councils, the whole system is facing a crisis of public confidence. Maori wards were a step in the right direction, but too little and too late. The entire system of governance in this country needs radical reform at both national and local levels so as to take power away from the politicians and deliver it back to the people. Does the system have the capacity to radically reform itself? Probably not. So it becomes incumbent upon the people to establish genuinely democratic institutions as alternatives to the present system, and Maori are well placed to take the lead in that. If the “abolition of Maori wards” gives impetus to this process, then it will have long term beneficial consequences for all.
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