So voting ACT looks to be the clear answer to take NZ to a better place, and off this racist, undemocratic path we are on, if Blue Skies is correct.
I'll vote for that.
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So voting ACT looks to be the clear answer to take NZ to a better place, and off this racist, undemocratic path we are on, if Blue Skies is correct.
I'll vote for that.
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The two of you aren't even talking about the same thing. What BS is saying is great. Education, confidence, etc.
What BDL is saying is demoracy is dying, racist policies, etc.
To throw my 2c in, I have first hand knowledge that in the hospitals, in clinical and management roles, if you are non-Maori and need more resource for your team = 3+ months of paperwork and running around to get approval. If you are Maori and simply don't like your current job, just come up with a new job description for whatever you want to do, tie it to some sort of cultural need, and they'll create the role for you within weeks. And everyone is too scared to question it because they'll be called racist.
Yes, it seems that anyone objecting is instantly branded a racist, but probably the correct term in Left wing parlance would be ‘reactionary’, because we are undoubtedly seeing a revolution taking place here. There is no other word for it: it is a revolution by stealth, it is a revolution that has been driven by the Leftist education system and media & captured arms of government bureaucracy.
Who voted for the members of the Waitangi Tribunal, what is their role and function, and when will his entity be dissolved?
Given that the Maori Electorates were set up to address a lack of maori representation in Parliament, and these days maori are probably over-represented in Parliament, when will these seats be de-established?
Asking these kinds of questions is verboten in New Zealand, ask these kinds of questions you will get Willie Jackson or Rawiri Waititi talking about ‘dog whistles’.
Sadly I do think that 4.2 million people are just expected to capitulate and accept what is happening, because there is a latent threat of violence and civil unrest underlying this process and many politicians are scared.
Crime chaos in Christchurch. But don’t discuss it because apparently that’s ‘playing politics with crime in election year’ and is very bad. This level of crime is normal, apparently.
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https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/13255...urch-overnight
Police investigating seven burglaries in Christchurch overnight
Nadine Roberts
09:24, Jul 17 2023
‘Police are investigating if seven commercial burglaries in Christchurch overnight are linked.
Christchurch Metro Area Commander superintendent Lane Todd said the burglaries were reported between 2.45am and 6.10am. In three of the burglaries a vehicle was used to gain access to the premises.
The burglaries were reported at:
2.45am in Centaurus Road Huntsbury
3am in Sparks Road, Halswell
3.15am in Wigram Road, Wigram
4am in Hopkins Street, Woolston
4.35am at FreshChoice in London Street, Lyttelton
5.15am at Parnwell Superette Store in Bassett Street, Burwood
6.10am in Cutts Road, Russley’
The two issues are intrinsically tied together in NZ, race and politics.
Denying that is why we are in such danger of really going off the rails.
Most people don't want to talk about it, and the left / maori are taking advantage of that.
I think the good nature and fairness, that most New Zealanders abide by, and aspire to, has, and is, being taken advantage of.
Weak politicians, and radical maori is where we are at as a nation. We need to talk about it.
Vote Labour and you’ll get the ‘Coalition of Chaos and Collapse’, because a Labour-led coalition including the Greens and Te Pati Maori will mean chaos and division and societal collapse in this country. The Greens are now effectively the ‘Other Te Pati Maori’ party, with a radical as co-leader in Marama Davidson pushing through radical policies. A purported green environmentalist party is being used as a trojan horse for separatism and radicalism.
‘A vote for Labour is a vote for Chaos’.
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https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politi...D2VAJA2GUH774/
Greens launch Māori land policy, Hoki Whenua Mai - vows to return ‘stolen’ land, revisit claims and redress
By Michael Neilson
17 Jul, 2023 11:28 AM
‘The Green Party is vowing to make sure all stolen land is returned to tangata whenua by introducing legislation including removing a historical claims deadline for breaches of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and establishing a process for private land.
The Hoki Whenua Mai policy builds on another launched under the same name on Waitangi Day last year but adds further provisions around reforming the Public Works Act, which allows for taking of Māori land and removing the 2008 claims deadline.
“The Aotearoa we know today has been built off of Māori land, much of which was wrongly taken through breaches of Te Tiriti o Waitangi over the last 183 years,” said Marama Davidson, Green Party co-leader.
“As Aotearoa approaches the 185-year anniversary of the signing of Te Tiriti o Waitangi, and the 50-year anniversary of the Treaty of Waitangi Act, the time is now to reflect on next steps to ensure the promise of Te Tiriti is honoured and wrongs are put right.”
Davidson said their policy would recognise tino rangatiratanga and repair the harms of the past.
“We will do this by organising a commission of inquiry into land dispossession to investigate land taken through breaches of Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
“We will remove the 2008 deadline to lodge new Treaty claims and reinstate the ability for the Waitangi Tribunal to make recommendations in relation to privately owned land, as that land comes on the property market.”
The Hoki Whenua Mai plan will amend the Public Works Act to stop whenua Māori being taken in future and provide a path for the return of land previously taken, Davidson said. This was something the party had campaigned on ahead of the 2020 election.
The plan would also end perpetual leases, returning full control of the whenua back to Māori landowners.
Other aspects of the policy include an investigation into alienated Māori land, a process for returning it and revisiting all Treaty settlements to ensure they are just and enduring.
The settlement process has seen close to $3 billion provided in redress across close to 100 settlements for breaches of the Treaty of Waitangi, or slightly more than the annual budget for the Department of Corrections.
Those settlements were often designed to compensate for loss of land, including where it was taken by force - raupatu - and excluded any discussions around land that had changed into private hands.
Critics have argued this experience had denied many iwi and hapū the right to have land taken from them returned, which was especially problematic now with rising property prices pushing any land purchases further out of reach.
The party also proposes an investigation into the dispossession of whenua across the country, including that seized because of public works and rating arrears, wrongfully alienated through the Native Land courts and through improper transactions.
A Commission of Inquiry would look into dispossession and redress and revisit Treaty settlements to ensure they were just and enduring - something the party campaigned on ahead of the 2020 election.
Mana whenua would be given right of first refusal over any land deemed to have been wrongfully alienated, and the Waitangi Tribunal powers restored to make recommendations, including private land.
As outlined in the policy document from last year, a fund for the process would be established along with a registry to give current landowners the option of signing up, regardless of land status.
Green Party Māori Development spokesperson Teanau Tuiono said indigenous control over land would also help boost biodiversity.
“Returning land to tangata whenua is the right thing to do to address the ongoing injustices that Māori experience.
“Aotearoa can be a place where active kaitiakitanga led by tangata whenua guides our relationship with te taiao, ensuring our tūpuna whenua, awa, and maunga are cared for.”’
Wow so basically revisit and redo EVERYTHING - treaty claims, settlements, court decisions, EVERYTHING ever done.
Sounds doable and sensible. Marama Mugabe is right on the money here.
I was quite surprised by this figure. Seems low? Is there a number that the Govt/taxpayers could just pay and be done with all this baggage?Quote:
The settlement process has seen close to $3 billion provided in redress across close to 100 settlements for breaches of the Treaty of Waitangi, or slightly more than the annual budget for the Department of Corrections.
Also, when a Maori tribe massacred another, maybe ate them, and took the women and children as slaves, but also took that tribes land, will the current-day descendants of that land-stealing tribe need to return it too?
Or what if the "white person" that stole some land actually had 1/32 Maori blood in them (or whatever the standard today is)? Are they white under this law designed to apply to olden times, but Maori when suits, like today, when they can jump the queue for healthcare and such?
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politi...AHZK5VLA5GWC4/
PM Chris Hipkins reveals new Govt youth crime policy as Kiri Allan returns
Haha .. sounds fairly clueless .. how to beat around the bush .. and likely achieve more SFA .. aside from some Clown Face feel good :)Quote:
People who influence children to commit crimes could be imprisoned for up to 10 years through a new offence created by the Government.
Those who publish recordings of criminal behaviour on social media will also receive stronger punishments as it will be considered by judges as an aggravating factor in sentencing, something the National Party proposed in June but with a focus on social media videos of ram raids.
The changes make up part of Prime Minister Chris Hipkins’ intention to focus on “prevention, protection and accountability” when addressing young offenders who are committing more violent crimes like ram raids and aggravated robberies.
Another change, announced by Hipkins at his post-Cabinet press conference today, empowered the Family Court to require offenders aged 10 and older to undertake community work like cleaning graffiti and picking up rubbish. Currently, the Family Court could only request such activities be completed.
The court would also be able to require the person to attend an “educational, recreational or activity programme” with the intention to re-engage them with education.
“None of this is about locking up children and perpetuating the cycle of crime,” Hipkins said.
Accountability in Govt Front Benches is pretty good - isn't it ? ;)
Help needed with lessons on how to jump out of a brown paper bag ? ;)
Lesson sent out to Young Offenders - Do It some more .. they can't touch us ..
direct from the Govt mob that are in it and responsible for it up to their stupid necks :)
No - Chippie - people have had a gutsful of your mob of useless sleeping knobs on this ;)Quote:
'Kiwis have had a gutsful' - PM hits out at rising youth crime in policy reveal
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/pol...nding#cxrecs_s
PM announces shake-up to tackle ‘brazen criminal offending’
To get all the pastry bits from Sausage Roll out of bag - put paper bag back over head - Chippie :)
then no-one can see what you are failing to achieve :)
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckla...DWFFIELMGHY6E/
Auckland train delays: Eastern, Southern Line services face cancellations due to ‘overhead line issue’
Oh dear - such a reliable mode of transport that Labour have fixations on throwing buckets of Bils at ;)
Then how much in vehicular movement savings occurs ? ;)
Even Labour's little Ram Raider contingent choose alternative transport options and leave the train wreck job to the blind Labour spinners parked up in the Beehive :)