tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post3865376874125093125..comments2024-03-29T17:12:19.648+13:00Comments on Bowalley Road: A Break In The Wave: Giving Effect To The UN Declaration On The Rights Of Indigenous Peoples In Aotearoa/New Zealand.Chris Trotterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09081613281183460899noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-37763672559651807722021-04-30T11:44:03.678+12:002021-04-30T11:44:03.678+12:00New 'hate speech' legislation is being des...New 'hate speech' legislation is being designed to illegalize predicted argument and outrage from the population as the reality of race-based government becomes clearer. Empathichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15104374453799360337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-49580355228648666202021-04-15T21:50:00.073+12:002021-04-15T21:50:00.073+12:00https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK2104/S00242/cent...https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK2104/S00242/central-library-design-principles-agreed.htm<br /><br /><br /><br />I should think that the library will still be proclaimed as the Central Library for immediate identification. Then under it the Maori words, and then by the doors inside or outside, the Maori words in full and their translation. That would be the proper way to present the name, and that should be how the Maori names are introduced all round the country. Otherwise it seems an exercise guaranteed to frustrate and upset those who don't speak or read Maori fluently. Many young Maori were rapped on the knuckles for uttering their own language at school in colonial times, and we don't want to repeat the process again.greywarblernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-65101239866535619942021-04-15T08:08:18.899+12:002021-04-15T08:08:18.899+12:00Royal Society [above Back in the 1960's my fat...Royal Society [above Back in the 1960's my father subscribed me to a thing called Understanding Science - Prisms, atoms, magnifying "little beasties"]. <br /><br />Tamara Poi<br />John Hurley did you take them up on their offer??? đ<br /><br />John Hurley<br />Tamara Poi No<br /><br />Christine Hickey<br />John Hurley why not?<br /><br />Tamara Poi<br />John Hurley I'm curious, why haven't you? Wouldn't it be good to understand their kaupapa so then you could then make informed statements instead making assumptions on behalf of MÄori?<br /><br />Tamara Poi<br />Christine Hickey đ of course a white male looks at my comment and laughs Simon Henshall đ<br /><br />John Hurley<br />Tamara Poi Would make a good Webinair but the issue is Post-colonial theory versus science.<br /><br />Tamara Poi<br />John Hurley can MÄori not have science woven in amongst traditional knowledge? How else do you think MÄori navigated across the expansive seas? Post colonial theory?<br />And there's another white male laughing at my comment.. Paul Gallagher KT đ<br /><br />John Hurley<br />Tamara Poi Knowledge and science aren't the same thing. Science is a universal methodology and it required a written language?<br /><br />John Hurley<br />There's a difference between the cleverness of an operator and the cleverness of a technology. There are unknowns about Polynesian navigation such as the push factor and it's reliability.<br /><br />Tamara Poi<br />Perhaps to you John Hurley, and seeing your perspective and perhaps assuming your European ancestry, I can understand how science and knowledge being separate aligns with your worldview.<br />However, the beauty with MÄori and many indigenous cultures globally, is that we understand the interconnectedness between all things.<br />No one person is right nor wrong. It's just our differences in perspective.<br /><br />John Hurley<br />Tamara Poi "Everything is made of atoms"?John Hurleynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-36427298425741890642021-04-15T06:44:46.467+12:002021-04-15T06:44:46.467+12:00PM Ardern was clearly rattled in Parliament yester...PM Ardern was clearly rattled in Parliament yesterday, flailing about trying, and failing, to justify this travesty. Muhuta, playing deflection, reminded that DRIP was signed up under the Key coalition.<br />I suspect that Key and Co only went along with it to get the Maori "whinge-fest in perpetuity" to STFU for five minutes, honestly believing that no Kiwi government would be mad enough to go along with it. On that score, at least, he was mistaken.<br /><br />Sounds like it's all go. The propaganda campaign and indoctrination of school kids already under way; Maori water royalties/taxes and separate parliament to follow.David Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04883628159193125307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-21232027767420643162021-04-14T16:20:52.189+12:002021-04-14T16:20:52.189+12:00Thank you Greywarbler, you've raised some vali...Thank you Greywarbler, you've raised some valid issues but I suggest you read the He Puapua recommendations as I think you've largely missed the point. <br />We are largely, and thankfully, free to pursue our aims and aspirations; material, recreational, educational, spiritual and artistic and so on. That huge diversity of aim, despite the conforming social pressures common to all societies, is testament of a tolerant and free country. <br /><br />The aims of the DRIP are a direct assault on those freedoms, I really don't understand how anyone can treat the whole issue so casually. <br /><br />That UK report showed that race and gender had very little to do with life success, in fact the worst performing category were, perversely, young working class indigenous British men. But correlation is not causation, once you drill down into the multiple common factors of a failed and miserable life race becomes largely irrelevant. It only looks relevant because certain behaviours are often intrenched in some communities. Fatherlessness (the big one) truancy, illiteracy and poor academic achievement generally, violence and substance abuse in the home and immediate community and so on.<br /><br />The best performing (in terms of generally accepted life success, health and wellbeing and financial security) of the worlds ethnicities (despite a history of some serious victimisation at times) are the Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese/North East Asians - where ever they go. They've also the highest average general cognitive ability and a culture of conscientiousness and competence. Coincidence?<br /><br />If there is a problem of crime, underachievement and meaninglessness it would be very foolish to make easy assumptions and falsely attribute blame. You won't solve a problem if you don't properly understand it's causes. You might even do a great deal of harm. David Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04883628159193125307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-56200562500169446142021-04-14T15:28:39.261+12:002021-04-14T15:28:39.261+12:00ACT have released this statement, nothing from Nat...ACT have released this statement, nothing from National yet that I'm aware of:<br /><br />ACT is calling on the Prime Minister to publicly reject the recommendations of a Cabinet-commissioned report which aims to give effect to the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.<br /><br />âHe Puapua represents a significant and serious departure from the idea that all New Zealanders are equal before the law,â says ACT Leader David Seymour.<br /><br />âIn March 2019, Cabinet commissioned He Puapua and, after multiple requests, has finally released a heavily-redacted version of the report.<br /><br />âFor those who believe this report can be easily dismissed and isnât going anywhere, some parts of He Puapua are already being implemented by the Government â for example, exempting some Maori land from rates, establishing Maori wards, giving Maori greater rights under the RMA, and a new history curriculum were all proposed by the report.<br /><br />âWill the Government openly tell New Zealanders whether it intends to implement the remaining recommendations?<br /><br />âThe report proposes:<br /><br />⢠A Treaty-based constitution<br />⢠Public education programmes across all sectors, including conscious and subconscious bias training, to deal with structural racism<br />⢠Significantly increased return of Crown lands and waters to Maori ownership in addition to Treaty settlements<br />⢠Progressively bringing all legislation into line with the Declaration<br />⢠A Maori court system<br />⢠A Maori Parliament.<br /><br />âUltimately, this is a question about what the Treaty really means.<br /><br />âDoes it mean that all New Zealanders are equal before the law?<br /><br />âOr does it mean we are a partnership between two collectives, and our rights depend on who our grandparents are?<br /><br />âACT believes all New Zealanders should have equal rights and opportunities. This report isnât going to deliver that.<br /><br />âThis is a divisive plan and it will set one group of New Zealanders against another.<br /><br />âThe Government must stop exploiting our differences and focus on the common dignity of all New Zealanders.<br /><br />âACT exists to have honest conversations about difficult issues like this and to unite New Zealanders behind good ideas.âDavid Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04883628159193125307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-90935890914799660222021-04-14T14:11:12.197+12:002021-04-14T14:11:12.197+12:00Wayne Mapp said...
I suspect that the governm...Wayne Mapp said...<br /><br /> I suspect that the government has already decided that the authors "ambitious" constitutional agenda will not proceed. <br />.....<br /><br />On the other hand the symbolic has been handed to them. They are allowed to erase an identity and place themselves at the top.<br />Thanks National<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDpwGtZB3Xw&t=18sJohn Hurleynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-63074101881478424772021-04-14T11:33:28.915+12:002021-04-14T11:33:28.915+12:00Jacindatube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lip6wS...Jacindatube<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lip6wSU7-WA<br /><br />One soon finds out how love can get nasty if one disagrees.<br /><br />Eel trap city. John Hurleynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-82554451677552187432021-04-13T15:23:06.617+12:002021-04-13T15:23:06.617+12:00David George 13/4 at 7 am
Referred to is Muriel Ne...David George 13/4 at 7 am<br />Referred to is Muriel Newman a died-in-the-wool rightie. So I had a look at her thoughts.<br />She is doing a job on PM Ardern. And Vision 2040 which is important for our future but I don't know much about it yet. But Ms Newman says this:<br /><br /><i>As Dr Tony Sewell, Chairman of the UKâs Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities, explained last week, disadvantage is not influenced by âraceâ: âThe evidence shows that geography, family influence, socio-economic background, culture and religion have more significant impact on life chances than the existence of racism.â<br /><br />His report, which sought to better understanding ethnic disparity in the UK, highlighted the importance of family structure: âIn many areas of investigation, including educational failure and crime, we were led upstream to family breakdown as one of the main reasons for poor outcomes. Family is also the foundation stone of success for many ethnic minorities.â <br /><br />It is the same in New Zealand â it is not race that causes social deprivation, but <b>factors such as the breakdown of the family, educational failure, and intergenerational welfare dependency.</b><br /><br />Vision 2040, however, seeks to perpetrate the racial disparity myth, to justify handing control of key government services to tribal groups. In areas such as child protection and health, the planning for this transformation is well advanced.</i><br /><br />I would imagine that DrSewell would see all these other factors having primacy, things that could be changed and that people are most concerned about. Race can't be changed but is so important that it sits behind everything, either as a cause or a factor. The part I've put in bold is what anti-welfare people use as bludgeons to hit people over the head with. They look at the symptoms and never at the cause. One thing leads to another - and they don't want to see the connections. Also that other people don't see living like a conformist middle-class white as satisfying. Someone from a society with other drives than possessing the three B's - bach, BMW, boat, because they are not after simple materialistic goals may not have found other goals to draw them in and motivate them. This is where learning about tikanga can make a big difference.<br /><br /> It used to be said that New Zealanders knew they had made it when they could tick off the three B's above. Though in this article people are said to have gone past this in aspiration to comfort and enjoyment according to the report from the Commission for Financial Capability below. Nowhere is there mention of aspiring to live in a functioning society with opportunities for equality, education, and jobs affording living wages and secure housing for all. These matters go beyond the materialistic ones of 'financial capability'.<br /><br /><i>Financial adviser Lisa Dudson said that was still an aspiration for some people. "It's enjoyable having those things and a good status symbol of success, which many people like to have."<br />Commission for Financial Capability research showed this was more common among people who were struggling a bit.<br />They were more likely to think of wealth as material items and emphasised that it would mean comfort and enjoyment. https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/110926849/heres-what-makes-us-feel-wealthy-now</i> greywarblernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-9051830303459326882021-04-13T15:10:15.804+12:002021-04-13T15:10:15.804+12:00I think it worth urging hesitancy in imagining dec...I think it worth urging hesitancy in imagining decolonisation as akin to the Spanish Reconquista. While colonisation is one people or culture imposing control over another people or culture, a decolonisation programme is not the later imposing over the former.<br />Both the indigenous and the introduced are changed by colonisation, decolonisation is therefore applicable to both parties. It is important that the indigenous are able to express a form of self-determination. This is not Tangata Whenua imposing determination over Tauiwi, although obviously Tauiwi must make accommodation for this self-determination. The same for cultural expression.<br />The other thing in the new settler societies is that there must be a way in which the indigenous and the settlers are able to have shared space and governance. If both parties have decolonized their minds from imposition upon to accommodation and understanding for, then that will be worked through over time and in context of the rights of the indigenous and those of universal human rights.<br />The Barronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-78023354296543374582021-04-13T12:33:19.282+12:002021-04-13T12:33:19.282+12:00The Barron Will you please put two or three paras...The Barron Will you please put two or three paras in your normal comment bloc? I really want to read your stuff but it is hard to when presented like a brick of words.greywarblernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-61615331629059827152021-04-13T10:32:12.182+12:002021-04-13T10:32:12.182+12:00A klei8l;uio;ui;uio/;u That is how I feel after ...A klei8l;uio;ui;uio/;u That is how I feel after somehow losing all my previous comment. The beautifully designed keyboard that has magic keys in it that inadvertently touched send your thoughts into limbo. I don't like it but is there a different design available? That I think is the message that we receive from the devotees of techno-madness in this current era - don't try thinking it will get you nowhere! Let us do or direct your thinking for you, we will manage your lives and you just go along for the ride. You aren't really capable of thinking for your self are you, admit it! 'Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Dylan Thomas' must be the response.<br /><br />The other comments here are mostly a bunch of sad dark thoughts lost in a damp dark cavern without a glimmer of light. I hope that mine will be a pinpoint of light and I send it out to the just to find connection with their bright flashes.greywarblernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-88452073565108461322021-04-13T10:02:47.818+12:002021-04-13T10:02:47.818+12:00This is the prescription of Paul Spoonley's Re...This is the prescription of Paul Spoonley's Recalling Aotearoa<br />http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/003231870005200114<br /><br />I watched him on ANZSOG Plenary Q&A. Andrew Markus discusses the plight of NZr's in Australia. Spoonley is passive, but what really gets him going is Diversity. He appears to actually believe that "classic migration societies" are dependent on migrants and he finishes with a strong warning citing a German Federal Minister who (allegedly) said that the Syrian refugees were for "population supplementation". China and India may not be able to spare their best and brightest in the future. What the hell we gonna do?<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrFieHSE1fQ&t=1160s<br /><br />This is the academic who has never been taken to task ever since the R word became the governing principle. R is tapu. Journalists are followers not independent thinkers.John Hurleynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-53398431559029547342021-04-13T07:00:00.664+12:002021-04-13T07:00:00.664+12:00Wayne Mapp, the PM has shown no such awareness of ...Wayne Mapp, the PM has shown no such awareness of the dangers to date, her capitulation to the separatists agenda continues apace. The will to resist some seriously outrageous demands, along with the wisdom to foresee the consequence, seems to be entirely absent.<br /><br />The campaign is being waged on two fronts. Apart from the recent and obvious there's an ongoing subliminal indoctrination initiative aimed at the public via the media and government departments including health and education. Exemplified, as Lindsay has pointed out above, with the new history curriculum and it's distorted and insulting take on our history and it's heroes.<br /><br />I was speaking with a senior teacher, they are under clearly expressed orders to promote all things Maori; language, myths, religion and culture and to assert Maori primacy generally. The schools are promoting, overtly and covertly, the "de-colonisation and re-indigenisation" of the school and it's curriculum; the mission statement of one of our local schools says exactly that. The hideous and divisive critical race theory lies are now being fed to our kids as fact.<br /><br />Thanks to the efforts of Muriel Newman we have a pretty clear picture of the future being planned for us. Worth a read in full: https://www.nzcpr.com/the-end-of-democracy/<br />David Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04883628159193125307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-18216859235778595462021-04-13T06:28:07.265+12:002021-04-13T06:28:07.265+12:00Talk about fiddling while Rome burns. This proposa...Talk about fiddling while Rome burns. This proposal is outrageous and, as Chris concludes, needs to be killed in its tracks. How any sane political party, or parties, could contemplate such radical changes to this countryâs constitutional structure defies logic. They seek political suicide?<br /><br />To make such proposals and execute them in secret with no prior publicity or consent must signal minds that are deranged. Indeed those involved in this chicanery must be fully aware of the likely reaction of the mass of the population.<br /><br />The fact that the inhabitants of this country, when the first Europeans arrived, had been here only for a few hundred years rules out any suggestion that they are âindigenous.â Consequently, it cannot possibly qualify under the Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous People. Furthermore, today most of those who identify as indigenous are of mixed blood.<br /><br />Maximum publicity and a new independent political party are needed to check this insidious scourge. To continue with this ludicrous charade can end in only one way, blood and tears.<br />Guillaumenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-39676299371092775522021-04-13T00:22:59.037+12:002021-04-13T00:22:59.037+12:00As a founding member of the United Nations we have...As a founding member of the United Nations we have developed a strong record of involvement in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and various declarations on the rights of the child, women, prisoners and others. The progressive lobbyists have often cited the right to housing as an area NZ falls down on, as NZ has on many other areas. Chris has recently looked at the Ombudsman decision regarding women's prisons, which was influenced by UN defined rights, as an area NZ is not up to the standard we aspire to, or have committed to. We take less notice of the UN decolonisation list when they raise Tokelau against the wishes of the Tokelauans. We do, however, ensure that we can show it is their wishes. <br />The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was adopted by the General Assembly 2007 majority of 144 states in favour, 4 votes against (Australia, Canada, the United States and New Zealand). Australia accepted it 2009. Canada 'endorsed' the declaration 2016, and legislation is before the Parliament. Obama drew from it, without legislating. <br />As a signatory, we make submissions on direction and progress. That a report would be made to that end and presented to the NZ Cabinet would seem something to be expected when we committed as a signatory. <br />In Te Weehi v Regional Fisheries, Justice Williamson left little doubt that customary rights is recognized in NZ law. That was 1986. A progress report would seem overdue on customary and indigenous rights. <br /> <br /> The Barronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-54466009119493441672021-04-12T23:53:59.031+12:002021-04-12T23:53:59.031+12:00I guess your correct. Jacinda and Grant Roberyson ...I guess your correct. Jacinda and Grant Roberyson will make it as difficult as possible to change anything. <br /><br />I like to be real to. Maori are well with in there rights to make adjustments to there wage settings and other legislative change.Samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16610466912188750003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-62282658062365615902021-04-12T21:28:09.816+12:002021-04-12T21:28:09.816+12:00They'll 'agree' with anything.
Still...They'll 'agree' with anything. <br /><br />Still enjoying the large print. I was thinking of putting 'years' instead of 'forms' in comments on my high school experience of the Maori story in History. But then, sadly, I realised everyone here grew up in forms -- rather 'illuminated' by the large print. No one in Intermediates now calling politicians 'Piggy' or 'Mouse'. sumsuchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03133092096534660472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-70045142324947077842021-04-12T21:04:24.019+12:002021-04-12T21:04:24.019+12:00I suspect that the government has already decided ...I suspect that the government has already decided that the authors "ambitious" constitutional agenda will not proceed. Minister Mahuta has been given her win on Maori wards. That will be basically be the beginning and end of it. Significant constitutional changes can't be sneaked in. The PM will be fully aware of the dangers of following that path. She will know she does not have that mandate.<br /><br />However, the government could go further, at least in terms of allocation of taxpayer funds. So that more health, education, justice and welfare funding goes direct to kaupapa Maori entities. That is a tap that can be turned off and on. In fact the Labour/NZF government did turn that tap off compared to the National/Maori Party governments. <br /><br />I am pretty sure that with a much more active Maori caucus the tap will be turned on again. Most probably in next months budget.<br /><br />Wayne Mapphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12906396523791648270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-9008778596019093992021-04-12T20:27:51.988+12:002021-04-12T20:27:51.988+12:00You forgot to mention that the plan is already bei...You forgot to mention that the plan is already being enacted. One of its steps was the introduction of a compulsory history curriculum.Lindsay Mitchellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04437693272797130833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-41280330141965949232021-04-12T19:40:13.085+12:002021-04-12T19:40:13.085+12:00Well, well "one of the worldâs oldest and mos...Well, well "one of the worldâs oldest and most respected continuous democracies"<br />The Realm of New Zealand is a monarchy. A constitutional monarchy if you like, but a constitutional monarchy without a constitution as such, which means when push comes to shove it reduces to a monarchy.<br />This regime is respected neither by the mass of its own people nor by the international community which correctly perceive New Zealand as a mere client state of Britain, Australia and the United States - its "Five Eyes" imperialist and colonialist partners.<br />If the colonial regime was as soundly based and correctly positioned as you imply, then why would it have given birth to such a bizarre document as "He Puapua"?<br />The fact is that the regime can claim legitimacy either through Hobson's Declaration of Sovereignty, which would be to openly admit that it is a colonial power, or through the Treaty of Waitangi, which is to commit itself to the kind of political folly that underlies "He Puapua".<br />That means, in effect, that there is no way out for the regime which you pompously characterize as "one of the worldâs oldest and most respected continuous democracies".<br />Your appeal to the supposed racial biases of non-Maori ("A state in which the economic and cultural power of non-indigenous New Zealanders would be much diminished, and the authority, wealth and influence of its indigenous people greatly expanded") won't wash. Working class Pakeha know that they are being screwed, and they know that it is not Maori who are screwing them. Maori know that they have been screwed, and that the British Crown is responsible.<br />If you want real democracy, Chris, you are going to have to sacrifice colonialism. Yet I have seen nothing to suggest that you actually believe in democracy. You seem to believe in the Realm of New Zealand as it is and as it has been for the past 181 years. A colonial state with entrenched British sovereignty.<br />That kind of state is unsustainable. The immense social and economic contradictions in New Zealand society will see to that.<br />You may succeed in turning your blog site into a haven for right-wing racists (you have already gone a good distance to that end) but how will that help you? Racism, whether of the sort that is found in the columns of Bowalley Road or in the pages of He Puapua, has no relevance to the future of our nation.<br />Nga mihi<br />Geoff Fischer<br />Geoff Fischerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00509885628971898371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-38856529764244340252021-04-12T17:20:47.316+12:002021-04-12T17:20:47.316+12:00New Zealand given its grotesque mismanagement and ...New Zealand given its grotesque mismanagement and decline of the public service still has the advantage of a hundred years of nation building. Naturally the rise of maori sovereignty provides a threat to that nation. Non maori aren't comfortable with naori being a legitimate power and have there sights squally on maori who some might say are rebels, terrorist and wreckers in regards to social norms like committing war crimes in Afghanistan, smuggling weapons to genocidal maniacs in Saudi Arabia, infecting Samoa with the flu (twice) yknow nothing terrible. <br /><br />The pressing matter how ever is the ascendency of maori as a peir to peir treaty partner. <br /><br />Maori are engrained with a deep sense of mistrust for the neglect imposed on them by non maori and are eager to assert itself on the treaty infrastructure as a legitimate rival. Maori have for decades committed there labour to the state. Meanwhile from non maori perspective the savage uncivilised maori are bluggers, lazy, separatists, privileged and racist. Yknow all the things that non maori are not. <br /><br />Maori toil away in the mines of WINZ and are left with a pittance to build up a treaty partnership of there own. Poor sickly and fatigued maori must build themselves up from under the weight if subservience.<br /><br />Over the past 300 years conflict between maori and non maori had been quite high. With the introduction of Covid19 into the mix conflict again remains high as all sides seek to weaponise corona for there own ambitions. <br /><br /><br /><br />Samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16610466912188750003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-81338924425375429182021-04-12T17:15:54.117+12:002021-04-12T17:15:54.117+12:00I wonder what Ms Ardern plans to do once two-third...I wonder what Ms Ardern plans to do once two-thirds of the country no longer requires her to be Prime Minister.Jack Scrivanonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-27689463423067343672021-04-12T16:39:27.465+12:002021-04-12T16:39:27.465+12:00"Explaining is losing". I first read tha..."Explaining is losing". I first read that as a mantra of Whale Oil/Cam Slater's repeatedly on his blog, possibly influenced by Carrick Graham. Given that provenance, I would suggest it may not be the soundest of advice đ By A Threadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18262023476898179517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-14544938101804130092021-04-12T16:11:48.298+12:002021-04-12T16:11:48.298+12:00It would be difficult to build a new template for ...<br />It would be difficult to build a new template for living and being in NZ.   But we can manage difficult things, no need to talk ourselves down. As old British colonist Rudyard Kipling said in 'If'...<br /><br /><i>If you can keep your head when all about you  <br />  Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,  <br />If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,<br />  But make allowance for their doubting too;  <br />If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,<br />  Or being lied about, donât deal in lies,<br />Or being hated, donât give way to hating,<br />  And yet donât look too good, nor talk too wise:</i><br /><br />I think this means listening, not jumping to the idea that either side knows and understands all, patiently setting down the problems, and discussing solutions to them.greywarblernoreply@blogger.com