WAATEA NEWS COLUMN: One last bash of Māori by this Government before the election
Here we go.
One last bash of Māori by this race baiting Government.
This time it’s the Treaty of Waitangi clause review that Luxon weakly promised Winston.
- Section 14(a) of the Data and Statistics Act 2022.
- Section 8 of the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996.
- Section 536A(1) of the Education and Training Act 2020.
- Section 6(d) of the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Act 2000.
- Sections 4 and 5(1)b) of the Organic Products and Production Act 2023.
- Section 3AB of the Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990.
- Section 84(b) of the Crown Pastoral Land Act 1998.
- Section 54 of the Plant Variety Rights Act 2022.
- Section 3A of the Climate Change Response Act 2002.
- Section 15(3) of the Criminal Cases Review Commission Act 2019.
- Section 5 of the Crown Pastoral Land Act 1998.
- Sections 4 and 14(a) of the Data and Statistics Act 2022.
- Sections 4(2) and 9 of the Digital Identity Services Trust Framework Act 2023.
- Sections 9 and 535B(a) of the Education and Training Act 2020.
- Sections 3(3)(c) and 12 of the Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf (Environmental Effects) Act 2012.
- Sections 3(b)(i) and 9(1)(a) of the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission Act 2020.
- Sections 5(1) and 6 of the Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Act 2022.
- Sections 5(g)(i) and 19(1)(b)(i) of the Water Services Authority – Taumata Arowai Act 2020.
Ramming this review of 19 pieces of legislation through under urgency in the final week of Government is cowardice and begs two questions.
1 – what other racist crap will Luxon promise Winston if NZF hits double digits and 2 – don’t you wish National could go back to an honourable relationship with Māoridom like Key, Like Christopher Finlayson, like Bolger, like Doug Graham rather than crapping on Māori constantly?
It is outrageous to push through deeply racist and controversial legislation in the last week of power just so NZF and ACT can go to their reactionary voter base with evidence they’ve beaten up Māori political aspiration.
That said, Removing the Treaty from 19 pieces of legislation, abolishing the Māori electorates and abolishing the Waitangi Tribunal mean that if Māori weren’t engaged and ready to vote now when so much is at risk, I don’t know what will bring them out!
The Government also announced this week it is moving to ban voting rights for non-elected members of council committees!
How come with this Government it’s local decision making over central Government right up until locals decide to empower Māori, and then suddenly its Central Government taking all that local democracy away?
If Luxon was incapable of controlling NZF and ACT when they were 6% and 8%, how will he manage them when they are 13% and 9%?
maybe you need to look up the meaning of the word democracy?
Plus have the supposed principals of the ToW been defined democratically?
Until they have been they should not be referred to in any legislation.
The ‘huge anti-Maori’ actions from Politicians who ‘claim’ to have Maori blood is shameful. ACT in particular can’t stop their obsession with eliminating Maori from ALL government legislation and are ramming through 19 more pieces before the election. Why? What for? Maori controlled NZ for close to 400 years before large-scale British colonization. They had farms, grew food, traded and exported goods to visiting ships and overseas markets like Australia. They were NOT barbarians, despite early Europeans labelling them as such. So continuing to denigrate and eradicate Maori while ‘using’ them to prop up our identity and tourism industry is utter hypocracy! How do CoC Politicians sleep at night? Racism is a destructive poison in society and causes many problems. FGS New Zealanders, STOP this repulsive behaviour NOW. All it does is stunt YOUR intellectual growth, critical thinking and empathy, so YOU are the LOSER! And readers, Luxon will NOT be PM whatever the result of this election – he could have stopped this but chose not to! ! Shame on Seymour, Peters and Luxon!
The present actions of the Act party shows who the real barbarians are. They are people who smash and break good stuff for no real reason.