I see Don Brash was quoted in yesterday’s Herald calling for broader education about New Zealand history, and in particular history here prior to 1840. This .. was somewhat unexpected, but the next few lines gradually made clear what he was on about:
As we reflect on what the Treaty of 1840 means for New Zealanders today it is worth remembering what this first Treaty actually promised – because over the last 30 years a succession of neoliberal governments have entered international trade treaties willfully ignoring the intent and spirit of our very first New Zealand Treaty .
Is the word “handout” reserved for the Provincial Growth Fund, Maori and Beneficiaries by the NZ Herald, Newstalk ZB and Mike Hosking?
The beauty of our egalitarianism and liberal progressive democracy is that it collectively enables agency of all individuals, living up to that promise demands more than a lip service white wash reparations process.
Has there been a period of time in NZ’s recent political history when there was so much seething political action and tensions beneath the skin of the body politic?
I have 5 wishes for Waitangi day 2019.
If that’s true, it brings us back to the question, what on earth does the fishing industry have over Shane Jones?
There is an enormous amount of online anger about Don Brash speaking at Waitangi this year. On July 2017, I gave a speech at the very same Rotary Club Don Brash gave his infamous Orewa Speech at.
This is how we should respond to Brash.
VENEZUELA DESERVES DEMOCRACY, but that is not what Venezuela is going to get. What it will get – as the whole world is currently witnessing – is a brutal assault on its people by the world’s most powerful nation. Venezuela is being threatened with economic strangulation, civil war and, should these stratagems prove ineffective in dislodging the government of President Nicolas Maduro, a full-scale military invasion led by the United States itself.
“One of the few bold measures this Government has done to combat climate change, banning future oil exploration, is being attacked by Big Oil who are desperate to hide the fact they are now a sunset industry”.