And it has happened, The White Settler Privileges Committee has handed down an unprecedented banishment of Māori from the debating chambers for daring to do a haka in Parliament while that Parliament attempted to rip the Treaty from our system.
History will reflect upon this as one of our countries most egregious moments of racism.
The While Settlers can attempt to tear up the Treaty and if Māori dare resist they will be banished from Parliament.
‘Hana’s Haka’ was seen by over a billion and when you embarrass the white settler master that badly, the punishment is always going to be extreme.
Hana, Rawiri and Debbie have been banished from Parliament for 3 weeks in an unprecedented ruling that will be used to blunt representation during the Budget.
The Kangaroo Court has spoken and those who stand with the Treaty weep.
This is a dark day for NZ democracy.
This hateful anti-Treaty, anti-Māori, anti-women, anti-environment, anti-renter, anti-worker Government must be removed from power at the next election.
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Welcome to Luxon’s North Korea and Russia.
Pretty sure members of all parties sit on the committee
The same rules apply to everyone.
How upside down to complain about being treated like an equal.
Well KCC that’s bullshit for starters. Former National party members have pointed out Collins didn’t follow the committees own rules.
So everyone understands and respects that strict behavioral protocols are to be followed on maraes but not parliament?
You’re as out of touch as mckee thinking people singing waiata before you have finished talking, are supporting you
Or maybe, could I suggest – you have no idea what Tikanga is.
Your ACT Party pedophile buddies don’t deserve respect anywhere.
Erica Stanford didn’t follow cabinet rules and what did she get James ?
And the privileges committee response to the use of the c word. Oh thats right said by a white woman
This is not just about Rawiri Waititi and Debbie Ngarewa Packer.
It is not just about the Maori Party.
It is about the colonialist regime venting its resentment at the hundreds of thousands of tangata motu who so emphatically rejected its failed “Treaty Principles Bill”.
If the members of the National Party had wisdom and foresight they would abstain from the vote on the proposed Privileges Committee measure in sufficient numbers to ensure that it does not proceed. In that way they would be able to preserve the dubious notion that colonialism is there “for all New Zealanders” and that at least a proportion of colonialists have sympathy for the rights of our people.
But if they go ahead regardless it will send a very different message.
First that “representative democracy” in the Westminster model is a sham when elected representatives can be denied the right to sit and speak in parliament by a corrupt and hostile majority.
Second, that the only way forward for tangata motu is rangatiratanga and te whakaminenga as a system of government completely independent of the colonialist institution of parliament.
So this ruling of the Privileges Committee is not a victory for colonialism or a setback for tangata motu.
It is a chance for colonialism to shoot itself in the foot, and for tangata motu to take another massive step forward.
Someone needs to back to Tuesday because I am sure Winston Peters commented on the Maori party being absent , did he open his big cake hole too soon ? someone should investigate this because isn’t peters breaking privilege
They should have got more punishment. We all have to respect rules of parliament. Maybe argue your case instead of doing a haka next time. It because all they have is grandstanding.
FAFO.
Eventually just another cut in the death by many cuts for this abysmal govt. Maori will garner increased support from this stupid backward decision. The Joker heading the committee is trying to outdo the Nicoliar in spinning the bullshit.
BTW the “white settler” slur (used four times in a relatively short article) is unhelpful. Our struggle against colonialism is not race-based. It is founded on the principles of rangatiratanga, mana motuhake and kotahitanga which have a place for all people and which are the necessary basis of sound, harmonious government in this land.
So, TDB, continue to call out the colonialist regime, but please desist from the “white settler” rhetoric. It is not about race. It is about the future of Aotearoa as a whakaminenga of peoples where tikanga Maori has its rightful place and the nation as a whole upholds mutual respect between peoples, national independence and unity.
Learn even a modicum of history mate, at the very least learn how we ran a white NZ policy far longer than Australia. This later day revisionism of how the immigration policy worked here for over a hundred years is a bad joke. As an aside “white” is not a race, and in a way your right probably should be “WASP settlers”.
One thing I do know is that colonialism works on the principle of divide and rule. It only became established in this country because it managed to pit iwi against iwi, and hapu against hapu. It now wants to pit Maori against Pakeha. Fortunately this time around kotahitanga is more solid and the majority of Pakeha feel a closer affinity to Maori than they do to the Crown. We should not play the colonialists’ game. We cannot afford to if we seriously want to decolonize and re-establish an independent nation with mana motuhake.
This government are strategically running rings around the left. TPM are the Achilles heal of the left and the coalition government is not going to stop poking and injuring that heal until it becomes a crippling and debilitating wound sufficient to keep voters on board with the coalition in 2026.
The slashing of Maori health funding and jobs – strike 1. The reversal in public house building at Kainga Ora – strike 2. The Treaty Principles Bill – strike 3. The replacement of Waitangi Tribunal board members – strike 4. Termination of Maori education programs strike 5. High levels of Maori unemployment – strike 6. The ending of the nutritious lunch program – strike 7.
And now we get the review of the Waitangi Tribunal – right on time – these actions are going to continue like clockwork up to the 2026 election, and if the Left (Labour, Greens, TPM) don’t get wise to what is going on and come up with a counter strategy they will lose in 2026.
National Party strategists are putting all their eggs in the race basket and they are doing it very, very cleverly – appealing to the partially deaf Pakeha majority. If you think that the coalition government is making mistakes you are wrong – this is premediated and calculated and risky, dangerously brilliant politics – all of it.
Labour needs to find a way to protect TPM and bring them in to some sort of political fold. TPM are being hung out to dry while everyone is just standing around watching the Maori community get the shit kicked out of it.
Labour can’t keep ignoring this and acting like ‘it’s just what people voted for’. I have no idea what it looks like but we need a counter strategy and we need it fast.
Privileged politicians think they are sacred and omnipotent just like lawyers think the law is the only thing that must be respected. Such narrow myopic visions see neither the trees nor the forests.
The most interesting and watchable thing that happens in parliament and they want to stop it? MORE….
Unprecedented banishment for unprecedented behaviour.
What’s the fuss about. It was a haka to express feelings of contempt!
Nact are so out of touch they don’t know ‘we’ (that’s kiwis) do haka every day at rugby at prize givings at funerals and in parliament.Nothing radical to see here.
Slowly everyone’s mokopuna become pale maori or brown pakeha. That’s the reality let’s get on with it.
https://youtu.be/FnOhDX9QAFk?feature=shared
Tim van de Molen guilty of using threatening behaviour , Andrew Bayley guilty of using inappropriate behaviour and most recently Erica Stanford guilty of using her personal email account for Ministerial business. And Winstone and other dickheads have a fucken cheek to moan about the Maori party who got the harshest penalty ever thanks to that nasty cunt judeath.
Brilliant CIP and what of Nationals animal basher and the bed leg basher?
Erica Stanford didn’t follow cabinet rules and what did she get James ?
A pay rise?
dONT WORRY THEY WILL BE REELECTED NEXT TIME AND WILL BE PART OF THE GOVERNMENT .Hanna might even be minister of repeal all hate policies .
The punishment is unprecedented as is the disruption.
Opposition mps and cross bench mps are not allowed to cross the floor to the treasury benches.
If this wasn’t punished we would likely see future parliaments devolve into the fist fights we see overseas.
Imagine if labour had a third term with jacinda at the helm, and Winston packed the public gallery with anti vaxers and the NZF caucus circled Ardern screaming at her.
No I don’t want this behavior in parliament.
The rules are strict for a reason
If MP’s can’t follow the rules of parliament they should stick to being activists.
100 years ago the black rods would collected them with maces.
If TPM pulled this in the previous govt they’d get the same punishment.
Labour could win 2026 if we had fptp or stv because middle voters are uncomfortable with this govt but with MMP middle voters will look at the greens and TPM and run a mile.
These theatrics play wildly different with mainstream NZ than with left Aoteroa, there’s a reason that national, NZF labour, TPM and the greens didn’t want that awful treaty bill going to the electorate in a binding referendum, because NZ would have voted in favor of the treaty principles bill, the amount of submissions are irrelevant, kiwis are constitutionally ignorant, they would have voted the same way Australia did in the voice referendum.
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