All around New Zealand there’s a growing concern that a cultural takeover of our country is underway. It’s a problem that’s being exacerbated by the weaponisation of “Te Tiriti o Waitangi”, and the domination of the Maori language.
“Te Tiriti o Waitangi”, the Maori translation of “the Treaty of Waitangi”, can be found everywhere these days. It’s been inserted into legislation, regulation, constitutions, professional standards, codes of practice, and a myriad of other forms of communication in both the public and private sectors.
In 1922, Sir Apirana Ngata, a Member of Parliament and New Zealand’s first Maori lawyer, outlined the meaning of “Te Tiriti o Waitangi” in an explanation that was held in such high regard that it was subsequently distributed by the Government to all Maori families.
He wrote: “These are the words of the first article of the Treaty of Waitangi: The Chiefs assembled including Chiefs not present at the assembly hereby cede absolutely to the Queen of England for ever the government of all of their lands.
“This is the second article: The Queen of England confirms and guarantees to the Chiefs and Tribes and to all the people of New Zealand the full possession of their lands, their homes and all their possessions…
“This is the third article of the Treaty: In consideration thereof, Her Majesty the Queen of England extends to the Natives of New Zealand Her Royal Protection, and imparts to them all the rights and privileges of British subjects.”
Sir Apirana confirmed what we all knew: the meaning of “Te Tiriti o Waitangi” was essentially the same as the English version of the Treaty – an historical agreement under which Maori ceded sovereignty to the Crown, property rights were protected, and Maori were given the same rights and privileges under British law as every other New Zealander.
The problem we now face, is that Te Tiriti has been fundamentally redefined by Maori sovereignty activists into a “living document” that embodies a proactive commitment to tribal supremacy.
That means wherever “Te Tiriti” has been adopted – whether by government agencies or private sector organisations – it no longer holds the original meaning but has instead morphed into an activist framework demanding “Partnership, Participation, and Protection.”
Under Te Tiriti tribal leaders are elevated into a power-sharing co-governance role, relegating all other New Zealanders to second-class status. Iwi call the shots – not in the best interests of New Zealand, but to boost their own self-worth and billion-dollar balance sheets.
Since ‘co-governance’ encompasses the power of veto, it is a euphemism for tribal rule. With co-governance delivering decision-making into the hands of iwi leaders, Te Tiriti o Waitangi has become the embodiment of He Puapua, the Labour Party’s blueprint for tribal rule by 2040.
As a consequence, all government and private sector organisations that have embedded Te Tiriti have become levers in a power game designed to replace democracy with tribal authority.
We can see it in education through the Ardern Government’s 2020 Education and Training Act, where section 127 requires school Boards to “give effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi”, requiring children to be indoctrinated with separatist propaganda: “to ensure plans, policies, and local curriculum reflect local tikanga Maori, matauranga Maori, and te ao Maori.”
The regulatory body for New Zealand’s 100,000 teachers, the Education Council, has been captured as well, pushing the agenda of tribal leaders through their “Standards for the Teaching Profession”, which prioritises Maori rights and forces the compliance of all New Zealand teachers: “Demonstrate commitment to tangata whenuatanga and Te Tiriti o Waitangi partnership in Aotearoa New Zealand.”
Similarly the Nursing Council, which regulates New Zealand’s 80,000 nurses, has embedded separatism: “The Nursing Council is committed to ensuring Te Tiriti o Waitangi is instilled into the values of our organisation and is fundamental to the way in which the Council undertakes its statutory roles.”
Their newly updated standards reinforce their capture: “The changes emphasise a greater focus on Maori health, culturally safe care. The standards of competence incorporate the articles and principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi.”
The Ardern Government used Te Tiriti o Waitangi to justify Maori co-governance of the entire health system. However, once it became clear that apartheid had been introduced, with health services prioritised on the basis of race instead of need, the public backlash was so great, opposition parties pledged to abolish the Maori Health Authority once elected.
To the Coalition’s credit that occurred within weeks of the election, but the problem is, that’s all they changed!
The legislation governing New Zealand’s health system is still underpinned by Labour’s separatist He Puapua goals. Maori rights continue to dominate, including through the Hauora Maori Advisory Committee and the Iwi-Maori Partnership Boards, with the New Zealand Health Charter still reading as if New Zealand is already a tribal country: “Te Mauri o Rongo… is underpinned by Te Tiriti o Waitangi principles: tino rangatiratanga (self-determination); oritetanga (equity); whakamaru (active protection); kowhiringa (options); and patuitanga (partnership).”
While the bigger question is whether the health system’s race-based legislation is fit for purpose, a more immediate concern is whether it is acceptable that official government communications are dominated by the Maori language.
Like Te Tiriti, separatist language and culture are everywhere – and not only in the State sector, but the private sector as well including through sports, businesses, and charities.
This over-riding of our traditional Kiwi culture and language is driven by official advice from the Ministry of Maori Development, which recommends the use of dual languages with Maori prioritised.
This is not a trivial issue.
The domination of Maori language and culture are pivotal to He Puapua and the tribal takeover of New Zealand. Once the Maori language and culture are used widely enough, concerned New Zealanders will stop objecting. At that point, the domination would have become normalised, and the final stage of implementing totalitarian tribal rule will begin.
By then, those New Zealanders who are left in the country will simply accept that democracy is dead and comply.
The “Maorification” of New Zealand is also a huge concern to this week’s NZCPR Guest Commentator John Bell, a former teacher and union organiser, who explains where the cultural takeover of education is leading:
“That cultural take-over has not by any means been the end goal, rather a necessary step towards the end goal. With the whole of society conditioned to accept Maori as its default cultural identity and Maori language as a necessary component of every communication, every official title and every TV news item, we have now entered the phase of forcing an activist Maori version of history and agenda of iwi entitlement on everyone in schools, in workplaces, in local government and even in leisure organisations which, if Incorporated Societies and required to adopt a new Constitution, have been urged to become “te Tiriti-led”.
“At the half-time stage in the Coalition Government’s three-year term, its success in halting the advance of the activists’ agenda has been anything but spectacular. The spectre of iwi sovereignty is now a significant factor in causing many able and ambitious young New Zealanders to leave, and it becomes increasingly obvious that penetration of our institutions by the activist agenda has gone so far that even a government opposed to that agenda now seems unable to halt it in the absence of significant grass-roots community support.”
And that’s a real problem.
Even a cursory examination of the depth of the infiltration of Te Tiriti and tribal activism into the official workings of our government will reveal that He Puapua has spread like an aggressive cancer.
In reality, opting for a colourblind society by removing race and culture from our Statute books will be the only way to save New Zealand. This is the approach taken by other countries including Sweden, France, Germany, Belgium, Holland, and Austria, that have faced with similar difficulties. New Zealand now needs to follow suit.
The situation in local government is particularly dire.
All around the country, iwi have secured preferential deals with councils not only through Treaty settlement legislation, as well as Mana Whakahono a Rohe and Joint Management Agreements under the Resource Management Act, but also through a wide variety of directly negotiated partnership and co-governance deals, including the establishment of advisory boards and Maori wards. Many of these arrangements are now being updated – ahead of local body elections and without the approval of locals.
Ngai Tahu, the $2-billion tribal corporation that, like other iwi, has built its wealth not only on the back of taxpayer handouts, but through a legal exemption introduced by Labour that allows such business conglomerates to register as charities and pay no tax, has secured special deals with virtually all South Island councils.
The updated agreement they have just negotiated with the West Coast Regional Council, has been described as a takeover as a result of the significant new powers they have secured.
In Taupo, Ngati Tuwharetoa is similarly updating their co-governance agreement with the District Council, introducing significant new powers that will come at a huge cost to ratepayers.
In reality, stopping this tribal juggernaut will clearly be no easy fix, especially when local authorities are turning a blind eye to the change in direction being promoted by the Coalition.
But as John Bell suggests, it is possible to make a real difference through grass roots action – if enough people get involved.
John’s target is the charity sector where he’s leading by example by challenging those that use the Maori language in their appeals for funding. He explains that he will not support organisations that promote separatism, but if they return to using the English language, his contributions will resume.
He makes the point that bringing about change is a numbers game: “Cleansing the charitable sector of ‘Maorification’ is perfectly achievable if enough people decide to make a stand… As people gain confidence in saying ‘NO’ to the activist agenda in one sector, so will they start standing up to that agenda in others – in schools, in work places and wherever free speech and democracy are threatened.”
As John reiterates, enough people getting involved can make a real difference – but it does require numbers.
We know that from our experience in 2023: with the legacy media backing Labour in the lead up to the General Election, the only reason the Coalition was elected was that Kiwis from all walks of life got involved in a collective effort to change the government.
The cultural takeover has now reached the point where grassroots New Zealand needs to again be mobilised. We need to send a strong message to central government that New Zealanders have had enough. We can do that in a number of ways, but the most urgent is to vote “No” to Maori wards in the October local body elections. And we need to encourage everyone else to do the same.
Some forty-two councils around New Zealand will be running a Maori ward referendum – the full list of affected councils can be seen HERE.
A YES vote in favour of the Maori wards would be a significant step towards the tribal control of local government – including tapping into the vast resources and rating income streams of councils.
A resounding NO vote, on the other hand, will send a strong message to all political parties in Wellington, that the will of the people must be respected.
It will also lay the foundation for a referendum on the Maori seats in Parliament.
That not only means voting against the Maori wards in the referendum, but it also means ensuring good people are elected to councils, who will support the removal of all race-based privilege – including advisory boards and partnership deals.
With local body nominations closing at 12 noon on Friday, 1 August, there is still plenty of time to encourage the right people to stand.
It is now time for New Zealand to mobilise – and take back control of local government!
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THIS WEEK’S POLL ASKS:
*Would you support local body candidates who commit to removing race-based arrangements from their council?
*Poll comments are posted below.
*All NZCPR poll results can be seen in the Archive.
THIS WEEK’S POLL COMMENTS
| Yes yes yes…….and more!!!! | Joe |
| Elected members only | Allen |
| I find lots of people are appallingly not interested in what is happening in NZ! Wake up people! Thanks Muriel for your great work! | Marianne |
| If any could be found. Not hopeful | Howard |
| Absolutely. There is no place for racebased legislation or maori preference of any kind. | gale |
| only way to go | Noel |
| On which race should we base the arrangement? | Geoff |
| Yes even if only for that. | steven |
| One people one flag one country | Lyn |
| An assertive YES is essential as we already have substantial executive power in Councils with high level appointments pushing hard on the speratist barrow. | Peter |
| For myself it is a no brainer,everything the maoris do is just for themselves with no regard for anyone but themselves,there will be no partnership, no sharing.Once they have control the infighting will start and the collapse of the country will be the end result.Once that happens ethnic cleansing will be the order of the day,I do hope that those,other than maoris wake up starting with local body elections and cast maorification out where it belongs. | Peter |
| Will they even be allowed to stand and get a chance to be voted for? | Brian |
| Absolutely. We need many good people who will stand up to Maori activists and promote democracy, to stand for councils in NZ. Erica Stanford’s embedding of The Treaty in her new education curriculum along with the the lack of action by National on the Maorification of everything, including the threat of a Maori takeover of our foreshore and seabed, is an insult to all the people who voted for National on the understanding that they would reverse this cultural takeover. | Mary |
| It has got to stop. The waste of money on consultation is enormous and the result is the Country is getting poorer. | Margaret |
| Yes, I would support local body candidates who commit to removing race-based arrangements from their council? | chris |
| All race based agenda policies communication needs to be stopped. Equality for all New Zealanders and no special privileges based on race. The acceptance that one race has entitlements above all others in New Zealand is crippling this country. Race based tax incentives special charities and absolute waste of monies on race based initiatives must stop. And calling people who want equality racist is racism in its purest form. | Grant |
| they must go local councils are were Moari are getting to takeover & that will effect us as a nation more than we realise | Nigel |
| Time for ALL of these treacherous LYING DEMONS, as well as LUXO, AND HIS INSIDE GANG…..TO PLEASE EXIT! still a long way off track… THE BIDDING FOR THE U.N/W.E.F/W.H.O must STOP…..your game is UP! YOU WILL BE TOAST AT THE NEXT ELECTION! | David |
| In Napier only one councillor spoke against maori wards and he was sidelined by the rest of the council, they are implimenting them this election cycle and say they will repeal in 2028 cycle(Tui ad anyone ?), if we the voters disagree,they only need look at the 2017 poll which was about72% against as I heard it called the other day we live in a “Totalitarian democracy”,another interesting point is NZ has more Racist laws than South Africa !! RIP NZ but its not going to be peaceful | Wayne |
| This is our last chance to reject maori wards etc. All NZ must mobilise and vote out maori seats. If we procrasinate maori tribes and maori radicals will take over local councils and then onto the NZ government. THIS IS OUR LAST CHANCE… | Allan |
| Their is no place for race in politics, at any level | Peter |
| Definitely. No votes for those who support race- axed arrangements | Robyn |
| We must stop the maorification and hand over control of our lives and resources to maori elite. No good will come of it, just look at the maori history , the fighting, raping, enslaving and cannibalism. It is is supported by woke,weak and ill rducated stupid sheeple. | Leonard |
| most definitely | owen |
| We are one people | Raymond |
| I certainly would! I will NOT vote for anyone who agrees with race based agreements in the Taupo Council. The current Mayor, in particular, has already lost me. | Heather |
| No only support them – we have been actively looking for them. This election must be the turning point! | Roger |
| Most definately The English language is slowly disappearing fed up seeing and hearing this happen | Barbara |
| At the current rate, this country is heading full tilt toward a nasty outcome. A nasty, violent outcome. | Grahame |
| It is absolutely necessary to remove undemocratic players from legislative positions. | Robbie |
| I have only contempt for the part maori idiots | chris |
| Of course these candidates should get the support of all voters but they won’t. This tells us how successful the brainwashing and history bending indoctrination has been, particularly among younger people who have been subjected to the fully captured education system of the past 30 years, particularly the past 15 years. I will be casting my vote for those candidates who publicly push for the end to race based arrangements. Unfortunately, I live in Dunedin and I fear the track record here favours a council filled with woke apologists, well meaning do-gooders and blatant activists. I can only live in hope. | Mark |
| Basic Democracy. | Fred |
| Definitely. In my formative years I grew up in apartheid South Africa and in my declining years I appear to have returned to that same place! | David |
| The time for talk has long since passed, though. It’s time for corrective action if we are to save NZ from becoming the Zimbabwe of the South Pacific. | Fiona |
| Candidates should be forced to declare their intention in this area! The trouble is that we do not know their opinion on Racial /Cultural issues. | Jerry |
| Absolutely. Did last time. In PN each candidate gave a quick synopsis of there position on various issues, and Maori wards was one of them. Fantastic idea. | Steve |
| Totally agree with no race based systems | David |
| Apartheid has no place in NZ. It must be eliminated | Peter |
| Yes.The Maorification of this country is out of control. But in reality ,it looks like things have got beyond correction While your Poll is admirable for providing opportunity for responses ,talk is no longer effective,only radical perhaps extreme protests are now required.Maybe massive boycotts of all essential services.? | Don |
| Absolutely YES!!! Enough of this Maori Apartheid nonsense! | Greg |
| Time to stop this minority trying to implement racism in New Zealanders lives | Kevin |
| ACTIVISTS of any colour should not be allowed to stand at any local or central level that are representing parties in govt.Maori seats have to go, same with race based parties and laws same for T.O.W and W.T. NATIONAL and luxo have to be pressured! | David |
| Absolutely | Peter |
| For all the reasons covered in your post | Hugh |
| Absolutely yes but they need to be made of the right stuff. Expect thuggish, bullying intimidatory behaviour against those who oppose what many see has become the divine right of Maori | Geoff |
| This should never have been in doubt | Hylton |
| 100% | Peter |
| Absolutely | Bruce |
| but in a predominately Maori area and an extreme left/woke council, I doubt anything will change. | mike |
| Absolutely | Don |
| Encourage them to become Patriots for equal opportunities | Jo |
| Definitely | Chris |
| Full support | Yanna |
| absolutely – the same support was given to this government to do this…. | Giles |
| I support democracy – especially at local level. | Graeme |
| of course | DOUGLAS |
| 100% | Linda |
| No raced base policies. | Steph |
| Race based seats at both local and central Government level must be abolished. Easier said than done without the necessary votes supporting this initiative around the council table. | Chris |
| Most definitely I would and encouraging others to do the same. Enough is enough. | John |
| Local body voting should be made compulsory then we won’t end up with dodo mayors and councillors | Ian |
| Maori wards have no place in local government | Jon |
| Yes 100% – we must get rid of division by race! | Glenda |
| One country, we are becoming the New Zimbabwe with separatism, local councils lack the kahunas to stand up to Maori favouritism . | Kathryn |
| Tribalism has to be removed it is not compatible with democracy. There must be no special privileges based on race. | Bryan |
| All of the race based legislation is nothing ore then embedding corruption into law. The most amazing thing is the Supreme Court “justices” that encouraged it. I guess the question that arises is how good are the law schools. | Hugh |
| Apartheid has no place in New Zealand. | William |
| this approach is a massive overreach driven by self interest of Maori groups and an under reach by past governments to not reading the smoke signals. | Gavin |
| I wouldn’t support any candidate that did support race based policy/arrangements, how could they given all Kiwi’s are supposed to be treated equally, not to do so is racist & illegal! | John |
| Totally! Need to get ‘race-based’ anything removed asap. | Lee |
| yes yes yes. have already cancelled donations to other charities that have become Maorified | Erin |
| There is opportunity for all New Zealanders, regardless of ethnicity, to stand successfully in local body politics. Any special provisions based on race are abhorrent. | Rod |
| Racism and democracy CANNOT COEXIST! | Andy |
| I certainly would as should everyone as this nonsense has gone on for far to long and this government promised to to just that really have they forgotten that It%u2019s well passed time the government pulled finger and sorted the problem out fast how hard could it be just get it done | Peter |
| We don’t need separate development and co-governance. | john |
| As per your column | MEL |
| Maori’ ‘rights” have never been earned – they are using deception and shadowing changes with the undercurrent threat of ‘You are a racist’ a complete lie and unjustified in the NZ society. The well – known power grabbing ‘fear based’ doctrines of socialism via Carl Marx and others. Maori have had people studying it. | Maurice |
| The average maori never gets a cent while the Morgan’s, Tamaheres and Jackson’s become millionairs | Niall |
| now | John |
| Councils are spending too much on iwi. Waste of rates. | Dave |
| This takeover by a thousand swords must be halted. | Mike |
| Absolutely | Jane |
| This tribal takeover needs to be stopped, coucils are a place to start oposing it, then abolish maori seats in parliment, get rid of this he papa crap and stop the demolition of NZ society. | Andrew |
| Lets stop this rot NOW | Mike |
| now | Wiremu |
| Get rid of them | Peter |
| Absolutely. | Simon |
| Assuming they honour their word (fingers crossed) and do what their constitutes say. (unlink the SDC with its water entity). | Jason |
| NZ has turned into a very sick apatheid country. Thank the Labour party for where we are today. | Des |
| It stops the current apartheid push which will be unsustainable in a democratic country as non Maori suddenly realise their rights have diminshed status to Maori rights. All citizens should have equal rights. | John |
| No maori takeover of our country.our council signed up to an agreement without any consultation | Michelle |
| Yes, we are all equal. | Kate |
| With bells on. | Peter |
| A no vote is essentially a vote for civil war. | Mike |
| 110% | Neil |
| The only problem is that the coalition promised to take a number of actions on this problem but has largely done nothing since it came into power. | Terry |
| The only ones in Govt that will do it are act & NZ first | Colin |
| So long as their other intents and commitments were honest and well founded. | Malcolm |
| Apartheid cannot ever be supported | Nev |
| Absolutely!! The Maori tribal infiltration of New Zealand must be stopped. | Margaret |
| I will be voting no to Maori wards | Lynette |
| TaupoDC is not keeping the ratepayers informed. The Council is dominated by the woke Mayor and highly paid bureaucrats. | Liz |
| Definitely! Thats because it is the right thing if New Zealand is to prosper going forward. Activism gains traction when leadership is weak. Supporting strong and dedicated leaders is the solution. | Andrew |
| absolutely yes, the maori wagon has rolled too far | john |
| Extremely important issue, bearing on the long-term prosperity of NZ. | Shane |
| Candidates should have to state their position on seperate Maori wards on all election publicity. | John |
| This has gone far enough its now got to the stage where myself a whit NZ Born New Zealander feel like a second class citzen. | Carl |
| Of course | Evans |
| Bring back one nation one people | Mat |
| Yes – but how many candidatures have the courage to express a clear view on this issue? | mary |
| Like all Government Organizations they must be colour blind and remove ALL race based legislation. As an aside I visited MOTAT recently. Most signage was in Manglish (a combination of Maori and English) or Maori with NO English. I was disgusted. | COOKIE |
| I will never support political parties that want race based policy. Referendum for Maori ward should not even exist. If Maori wants to be part of the Council, they can become a candidate during election, just like anyone else. Same for central elections. I am very disappointed with this government. They were supposed to deal with these activist and bring back a NZ were everyone has the same privileges and obligations. | Luciane |
| No question | Anthony |
| But we need go know who will | nelson |
| We are all one | Chris |
| There is no justification for Race Based councilors. | Noel |
| Yes, and inversely, any candidate who supports apartheid in local government would never ever get my vote. They would be treasonous. | Colin |
| Absolutely! I’ll be looking for such candidates. The race based corruption must end. | Wendy |
| FNDC shoves the Maori language down our throats all the time and we are sick of it. Just how does the official advice from the Ministry of Maori Development, which recommends the use of dual languages with Maori prioritised stack up regarding the NZF-National agreement? Which says: Legislate to make English an official language of New Zealand. Ensure all public service departments have their primary name in English, except for those specifically related to Maori. Require the public service departments and Crown Entities to communicate primarily in English – except those entities specifically related to Maori. We need a Council that will reverse this nonsense. | Doug |
| No more Maori anything (raced based arrangements) at local and government levels. All to go, and good riddance to the maorification of New Zealand | Gordon |
| Needs to be | Willy |
| The problem is that here in Tauranga, thanks largely to that horrible racist, Mahuta, and her handpicked compliant, commissars, we don’t have a vote this time around and have to survive until 2028 to have a say! | Alan |
| 200% | David |
| Reversing the (apartheid) Cultural Takeover requires removing the apartheid 1975 TOW Act and apartheid Maori seats from statute. | neil |
| We absolutely need strong people to stand for council and I’m helping to ensure that’s the case! | David |
| Local government has become a real battleground. The sooner the Coalition passes their law to re-focus them on what really matters the better. But they must take steps in that legislation to reduce the power of iwi otherwise communities like ours will end up paying for tribal privilege! | Murray |
| Yes, get rid of Maori seats in local and central government and get rid of race from our laws altogether. | Paul |
| It is really important to encourage a number of good people committed to getting rid of cultural entitlements to stand for councils, so they have the numbers to bring about change. | Marie |
| It is often local body staff driving race-based preferences. These activists should be given their marching orders. | Simon |