The Smoking Gun: Stanford’s Plans to Do Away with Ti Tiriti.

Over the past few weeks, I’ve written a number of articles about Erica Stanford’s plans to remove references to the Ti Tiriti from education legislation. Most of my articles referenced Bevan Holloway’s indefatigable efforts to find out what is really going on behind the spin that Stanford is so good at spreading around. Nothing definite had turned up but reading between the lines it was clear something was likely to happen.

Bevan has now turned up more conclusive evidence that Stanford is indeed planning to change the relevant legislation to remove the Ti Tiriti requirements, not surprising given her links to Elizabeth Rata. 

As always I encourage you to read Bevan’s article for yourself.

Early Warning Signals: Stanford Says She Will Remove Te Tiriti From The Education and Training Act In One Go

“On 23 July, 2025, Stanford spoke to Sean Plunket on The Platform. He wanted answers about the place of Te Tiriti in the Act.

Plunket: Is it going to stay in there? (from 7 mins)

Stanford: … I don’t want to be doing this five or six times. I want to do it once and I want to do it right … There will be changes.

Plunket: Will they be the changes that the people who are making smoke come out of my text machine right now will agree with?

Stanford: I think that they will. But, they need to wait. It is important that we get it right … I don’t want to be talking about the Treaty, I want to be talking about reading, writing, maths, achievement.

Plunket: So the way to do that is get the Treaty, get all this Treaty stuff, out of education, right?

Stanford: In one go.”

So there you have it. No ifs, no buts, the anti-Maori agenda in full view, exactly what Elizabeth Rata has been agitating for. 

As Bevan writes:

“I have wondered about the extent to which the ideological positions Stanford has been repeatedly exposed to from Rata and The New Zealand Initiative would influence her thinking.”

In his article, Bevan explores this further, writing that Stanford has given plenty of clues that she was thinking this way:

“We saw Stanford echoing Rata’s views about cultural responsiveness being a “misdiagnosis” of our education challenges when she was on a stage in Florida in late June, 2025.”

Now we know what she plans. This has major implications for our country, as this is a road that will lead to unrest. 

Bevan concludes:

“The issue we have with Stanford is she has repeatedly allowed those thinkers, who are at the extreme end of right-wing thinking, to influence and direct the work of government in ways that go against the spirit of or violate public service guidelines and democratic process. This video is clear evidence that Stanford shares one of their key aims, and she is going to make use of “legislative vehicles that are coming up” to realise it, “soon”. We should all be alarmed that one small group is able to exercise such power.”

Is what New Zealand voted for? 

Is this what we want? 

This needs to be stopped.