Nice wind up but will never happen. I.e Waitangi day was the founding of a nation so will never be replaced.
Seymour couldn't get his referendum through thank god, speaking of being divisive.
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Sorry I must be the only one that don’t see your posts oozing with humour & celebration. I suggest you stay out of the rowdy partying wool and cowsheds around NZ tonight and the numerous pubs of celebrating people.
Your “humour” is highly likely to be misunderstood by the people who voted for and got a return to common sense 😀
So you just described blinkered thinking.
I said long before the election Labour had to go.
I'm not exactly celebrating as there will be areas that will improve & others I fear won't.
Let's see the proof in the pudding.
I hope the new Government does well for NZ as that's what we all want.
Very very pleased to see Mike King’s mental health charitable trust Gumboot Friday given a $6m boost.
Absolute disgrace that te WTF Ora under Labour spent $1.9 billion on mental health and over $200m on consultants in the last two years to achieve bugger all while Gumboot Friday got nothing despite helping hundreds of youngsters cope with mental health issues.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/happy-...I6WR7LBUFEB3Y/
It sure was spent. In fact, $200m more was added to the mental health budget in 2022.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/budget...L6T4IHECSCTCA/
All wasted like everything under Ardern & Hipkins & Little.
Good news that te WTF Ora is going back to Health NZ - emphasis back to frontline services rather than woke tokenism.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/incomi...OVMRPKSRZO6PM/
Incoming-Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters blasts te reo Māori names for government departments
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Incoming-Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters has slammed te reo Māori names for government departments, saying “communications is about comprehension and understanding”.
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'How can you have a waka on the road?': Peters slams te reo Māori names
Whoa - Go easy Brother -- before decapitating them, everyone wants to know whose spelling it was that was so bad that they missed out a Letter, how many pot holes they fell into and what they were drinking the night before to produce such an outstanding effort ... and of course the size of the Consultancy fee ; )
I listened to Winston interviewed by HDPA today. He said a lot about the changes coming regarding the "Treaty industry" including:
# Government funding of cultural reports for court cases cancelled
# Change all Government departments names to English language
# Remove any references to the "principles of the Treaty of Waitangi" in new and existing legislation
# Cancel the Maori Health Authority
# Remove the 2 unelected maori seats on Ecan
# Remove favoured status on hospital waiting lists for any race
# Cancel any 3 Waters organisations and return assets to councils
He mentioned quite a few more but it is good that we go back to what Winston called "common sense policies"