The recent appointment of ten unelected iwi representatives with full voting rights onto a Council Committee of just six elected Councillors is a stark illustration that the tribal takeover of Local Government in New Zealand is now well underway.
But before we examine a prominent King’s Counsel’s findings that this development as unlawful, we should first ask a more fundamental question: how on earth has it come to this in a supposedly democratic country?
To answer that question, we need to revisit the egregious betrayal of voters by Jacinda Ardern’s Labour Party after the 2020 election, when they campaigned on one set of promises only to deliver something entirely different once elected to office as a majority government.
At the behest of their powerful 15-strong Maori caucus, Labour unleashed an effective tribal takeover of New Zealand – without any mandate whatsoever from voters.
The blueprint for their betrayal had, of course, been mapped out a year earlier under the guise of a plan to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. However, the He Puapua strategy to replace democracy with tribal rule by 2040, was deemed to be so radical that it was kept secret from their New Zealand First Coalition partner – and from the public – until the 2020 election delivered the Party the opportunity to implement it without scrutiny.
The mainstream media was even silenced, through the announcement of a new $55 million Public Interest Journalism Fund that required recipients to promote the “Te Tiriti partnership” fabrication – which was the central tenet of He Puapua – as a condition of their funding.
Naturally, the cash-strapped, largely left-leaning media sector welcomed the handouts and were only too willing to facilitate Labour’s wishes.
To embed the “Te Tiriti” agenda within the state sector, Labour turbo-charged the Office of Maori-Crown Relations, which had been set up in 2019 as an agency co-managed by tribal leaders, giving iwi power brokers access to the entire State sector. Over 200 staff were deployed to undertake a mass “re-education” campaign, forcing Government agencies to adopt “Te Tiriti”, and compelling employees to sing waiata, call New Zealand “Aotearoa”, and speak the Maori language.
A key objective was to embed the partnership agenda within State sector decision-making bodies, since that gave unelected and unaccountable tribal representatives the balance of power through the right of veto in all “co-governance” arrangements.
It was through this mechanism that Labour orchestrated an effective tribal takeover of our country.
As the demands of iwi leaders escalated, major public sector reforms were undertaken.
Without warning – and right in the middle of the pandemic – the country’s District Health Boards were disestablished and replaced by a centralised system co-governed by Maori that elevated race above clinical need as a deciding factor in patient health care.
Maori control of the country’s freshwater was orchestrated through Three Waters, which centralised community water infrastructure and assets to enable co-governance.
And the long-standing democratic right of communities to reject council decisions to establish Maori wards without public consultation was abolished to enable the tribal takeover of Local Government.
Private sector agencies were also targeted through new laws that required regulatory bodies to impose Te Tiriti partnership requirements onto real estate agents, nurses, doctors, pharmacists, charities – and even re-registering societies.
As the 2023 election approached, the public became increasingly alarmed by these developments, but were reassured by pledges from National, ACT and New Zealand First, that if elected, the tribal influence would be removed.
Coalition Agreements promised the Maori Health Authority and Three Waters would be abolished, local government petition rights would be restored, Treaty principles would be removed from legislation, He Puapua would be stopped, no race-based laws would be enacted, and equal rights would be restored.
But the new Government underestimated just how deeply public officials had been captured. Many of the nearly 20,000 extra bureaucrats hired under Labour were committed He Puapua advocates who are now pro-actively sabotaging the Coalition’s attempts to dismantle it.
While some flagship projects were axed, the ideological machinery remains firmly embedded in the State sector, which explains why so many Coalition Bills – even those supposedly designed to reject race-based provisions and restore equal rights – still end up prioritising tribal influence.
The much‑vaunted Fast‑track Approvals legislation is a glaring example. Despite all the tough talk, it still mandates that local Maori are notified of projects, and that ‘expert panels’ include a member ‘qualified in a Maori worldview’ – which in practice means someone sympathetic to iwi demands.
This has now resulted in a five-month delay for the Santana Minerals application for a gold mine on the West Coast – and an alleged demand from iwi for a $180 million payoff.
In other words, instead of the new legislation treating iwi the same as everyone else – the race-based privileges included in the law are now creating the same problems of delays and blackmail that crippled the Resource Management Act.
It’s the same story with the Marine and Coastal Area Act amendments that were introduced by the Coalition last year. Instead of removing “tikanga” or Maori custom from the legislation – since that was the reason the law went off the rails in the first place – it was retained. The predictable result is that the Coalition’s reforms are on track to make no material difference at all to case outcomes, leaving New Zealand’s coastline still likely to fall into tribal hands.
In fact, if future claims follow the pattern as the first case heard under the new law, the only option to save the coast is if ACT and New Zealand First pledge to repeal the Marine and Coastal Area Act and restore Crown ownership of the coastline – in the national interest – by reinstating the 2004 Foreshore and Seabed Act.
The RMA reforms are following the same disastrous pattern. Instead of terminating all Treaty-related agreements with iwi that councils have entered into over the years, the Planning and the Natural Environment Bills intend carrying them through into the new legislation. This means favoured iwi will still be able to demand cultural assessment reports – at the applicants’ expense – and hold out their hand for “compensation” to sooth their cultural needs, like $180 million from a mining company.
And with the draft legislation signalling all existing iwi agreements with councils will be carried forward, there’s now a rush of new arrangements being established up and down the country, ahead of the law change, as iwi engineer themselves a privileged status in Local Government decision-making into the future – not to mention the gravy-train of lucrative financial rewards that brings.
All of this is in spite of the 2025 High Court ruling in Hart v Marlborough District Council confirming that local councils are not part of the Crown and therefore have no Treaty obligations beyond what Parliament explicitly legislates.
In other words, these far-reaching “partnership” agreements between iwi and activist councils are not required by law. Yet because the Coalition has failed to make this explicit, many local authorities – including activist councils like Whangarei, where voters deliberately removed Maori seats – are now about to “embed” Te Tiriti partnership obligations across their entire operation.
As mentioned earlier, the latest egregious power grab involves the Far North District Council’s decision to appoint 10 iwi representatives with voting rights onto its Te Kuaka Committee for Maori Strategic Relationships, which had just six elected council members.
While appointing a majority of iwi representatives to over-ride decision-making by a minority of elected councillors, would appear to be undemocratic, it is, however, permitted under the law: Clause 31 (1) of Schedule 7 of the Local Government Act states “members of a committee or sub-committee may, but not need be, elected members of the local authority” and 32(1) enables the granting of voting rights.
This week’s NZCPR Guest Commentator, King’s Counsel Gary Judd, argues that the appointment of those ten iwi representatives is however, unlawful:
“The first purpose of local government, stated in s 10 of the LGA is to enable democratic local decision-making and action by, and on behalf of, communities, and the role of a local authority such as FNDC is to give effect to its purpose (s 11). A local authority must act in accordance with principles set out in s 14. The first is to conduct its business in an open, transparent, and democratically accountable manner. Another principle is that it should provide opportunities for Māori to contribute to its decision-making processes. That doesn’t mean, hand over decision-making to iwi and hapu. That runs completely counter to the requirements for democratic decision-making and democratic accountability.”
He accuses Councillors – apart from whistleblower Davina Smolders – of “engineering a transfer of power to iwi and hapu, no doubt in pursuance of the claim to have sovereignty over the north. The mayor and all but one of the elected members are promoting or supporting this unlawful transfer of power or are cravenly standing by and allowing it to happen.”
What’s worse, is that the Minister of Local Government, Simon Watts, has been persuaded by his public service advisors not to act: “I have received advice on the Far North District Council, and it does not meet the threshold for Ministerial intervention. It is a local matter, and it needs to be handled locally…”
This is not what people voted for when electing the National-led Coalition Government in 2023.
Voters expected the Coalition to defend democracy and prevent the iwi takeover of councils. Since the Local Government (System Improvements) Amendment Bill is currently in front of Parliament, a Supplementary Order Paper amending Schedule 7 of the Local Government Act to read “members of a committee or sub-committee MUST be elected members of a local authority” could be included in that Bill to fix the problem.
Furthermore, by making the change retrospective, all existing arrangements between iwi and councils would be abolished.
And to be sure that no iwi agreements are carried forward to corrupt the new Planning and Natural Environment legislation, since those Bills are still in front of Parliament, an amendment could be added to the effect that any iwi arrangements with Councils would lapse as soon as the new laws take effect. This would ensure that activist councils cannot continue to advance an iwi power-grab through the back door.
These recent attempts by iwi leaders to control local government show just how serious this tribal takeover has become. Just because the government changed, it doesn’t mean New Zealand is safe. Quite the opposite. With the framework for tribal rule already in place, iwi are now proactively hunting for every opportunity to impose their controls onto an unsuspecting public.
This is why other related election pledges, yet to be addressed – such as repealing or replacing Treaty principles in twenty-three pieces of legislation and overhauling the Waitangi Tribunal – need to be completed before the election.
It’s also why any party that pledges “to remove all race-based initiatives from legislation” as a bottom line during the election campaign, should be supported – because they understand that the only way to guarantee equal rights is for a nation to have colourblind statutes.
It’s what a number of OECD countries have already done – including Sweden, Finland, Austria, Holland, France, and Belgium. New Zealand now needs to now follow suit.
What this disastrous chapter in our history reveals is not only that the Labour Party can longer be trusted, but that tribal leaders have become increasingly deceptive and greedy in their relentless push to undermine democracy and grab power and public resources for themselves.
Furthermore, this saga underscores how critical courage and resolve are in any political party that claims they are defending our democracy – and it also reminds us just how vital independent voices like Gary Judd KC have become in calling out unlawful overreach and standing up for the rights of all New Zealanders.
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THIS WEEK’S POLL ASKS:
*Do you believe the tribal “takeover” of local government in New Zealand is now well advanced, a little advanced, not advanced at all?
*Poll comments are posted below.
*All NZCPR poll results can be seen in the Archive.
THIS WEEK’S POLL COMMENTS
| Here are Maori taking the piss out of New Zealand again. New Zealand is supposed to be one of the least corrupt countries in the world; Ardern, the divider, made a lie out of that. | Monica |
| I Keep urging people to continue fighting this agenda. My concern is that the government have not waken up to the fact this is one major reason why they are loosing support. | Chris |
| Sadly the National Party is not really committed to removing the references to the Treaty and all that is included in that, especially in councils. The last elections showed that the majority of the population want rid of all that co-governance agenda removed. Come on, National and get a backbone! | Duncan |
| There is hope because people are waking up to iwi corruption | Kate |
| With help from National It is I’m sure in their agenda to involve treaty issues even if false | Michel |
| Well advanced, takeover, by the not so advanced…! It will only get worse, sorry to say1 SO MUCH CORRUPTION, IN THIS COUNTRY, we are heading to become the NEW ZIMBABWE, OF DOWNUNDER..! and eventual CIVILWAR, if not,NIPPED IN THE BUD, GOD DEFEND N.Z.!! START PREPPING, AND GROWING QUICKLY…! | David |
| Slowly slowly will not be noticed | john |
| Where are the lawmakers? | Frederick |
| Need to change now | Pauline |
| Urgent action required to STOP this. | Kathleen |
| God, help us! | Pamela |
| NZ is on the brink of disaster unless we act NOW> | Bruce |
| Someone better get this sorted out for good or there’ll be hell to pay down the line. NZ will become just another failed state/county !! | Anon |
| URGENT ATTENTION NEEDED TO REMOVE ALL CHANGES | mARTIN |
| The N.Z State, under Ardern, and Dipkins got away with mass murder, proving it all, right now! In march of 2019, the Chch. mosque attack, shook the nation.51 people died? or did they? The evidence, and video, was banned, by Ardern, claiming that it was fake, and became punishable to watch this fake terror A.I. video, which went against the official Govt. story. 14 yrs jail sentence, for denial of the Ardern govt, story! This exposes, the ROT and Corruption of our Leaders rulling N.Z., The evil gang that run our country! They look after, and protect their own, They are trying to memory hole, the whole truth about the convid scam. The whole truth does not fear …examination…LIARS DO! | David |
| It is appalling!! | Ron |
| Dumping He PuaPua as they said they would. | Denis |
| This has to be stopped | Brian |
| Some regions are more advanced than others. Democracy is being destroyed. This is opening the door to corruption as iwi demand payment for their approval on developments. | Mark |
| In my humble opinion the coup happened in 1975(TOW act) and has been implimented ever since with the speed ever quickening as 2040 deadline approaches | Wayne |
| I voted National, believing they would stop all of what you outlined, but am rather disappointed that not too much if anything has really changed. | John |
| It is just about,or already too late. SHAME on what labour has done to New Zealand. | Gregor |
| Shame on our politicians! | william |
| How can anyone who can name the vessel their ancestors came on (canoe) be indigenous? I can name the vessel my family came on so I must be indigenous. Why am I paying for the sins of someone elses grandfather? Any one who claims to be maori has a forebare who is so-called pakiha so their great-grandfather ripped the other great-grandfather off. Get real and stop the nonsense. Wouldn’t it be a great country if we all worked together for the future of our kids instead of perpetuating the lies. I’m afraid the past governments have turned a blind eye to the rip off and take over by a few radicals with the bureaucracy and education and now local councils infiltrated with this rubbish. | George |
| There is little hope of any intervention by any current politician | Bruce |
| Apart from the Far North we only hear of the progress that NZCPR tells us. | Denis |
| It is well-advanced.Time to get rid of it all. | Jan |
| It’s time to get rid of the treaty, remove all race-based government(taxpayer)-funded offices and spending and restore democracy to New Zealand. Every tribe and sub-tribe must form a limited company with all tribal members being shareholders. That way, for the first time ever, all the maoris will be able to share in the rewards of treaty settlements. Remove Helen Clark’s ‘every marae is a charity’ legislation and let the tribes pay tax like every other business in New Zealand. | Gerard |
| Back-room politics no place in NZ. This should be stopped immediately. | Neville |
| Scary. | Pam |
| YES… MORE THAN WELL ADVANCED! guess who started the betrayal? None other than the same muckraker gang..the U.N! and their partners in crime the W.E.F World Bank,I.M.F, A.I/BILLIONAIRES, same PROXY/POXY CLUB that give the orders to our leaders like ARDERN/KEY/ CLARKE/LUXFLAKE and will not stay out of our affairs… THEY ALL WANT US GONE…!and they will be coming again, for our children and our country! What will it take for KIWIS TO UNITE THESE EXTORTIONER … GENOCIDERS? YES… THEY WILL BE BACK!! THEY TOLD YOU! | David |
| This cohesive explanation of events needs wide publication. This is the main reason that there is a lack of social harmony Mr Luxon much more than immigration. Labour has ser back relations with Maori by creating a strong distrust vis deception. | Elise |
| It needs to be stopped. | Paula |
| This government has completely gone back on their election promise to voters and have continued bowing down to where the treaty once more becomes a partnership with Maori getting 50% of the tax take to run there own Nation. I have written to my MP and all the leaders of the National party over the last few years concerning this. Specifically asking them to tell the NZ people Maori want separate sovereignty, not co-governance. Then 50% of the taxes to run their own Nation. My knowldge started with the grass roots leader of the movement Ranginui Waker. Then I saw its furtherance from 2002 to 2009 working in the courts and knowing personaly the one leading the movement. But it seems our Governent are afraid to stand against the movement and are happy to bow down to the various spiritual beliefs behind it all. Beliefs which even the highest court in the land are prepared to join to the foundational laws of NZ That’s why the Labour Government appointed Joe WILLIAMS, ex Waitangi Tribunial to the Supreme Court, The other judges are falling over backwards to help his cause. It seems the Minister of justice is trying to battle this, but I don’t see him getting much support from the Prime Minister. I despair at what is happening in our Nation and where it is all going to all end up. | Dene |
| Racism Running Riot. | Grahame |
| Another broken promise by the Coalition | Keith |
| Time it is stopped. So much for democracy. | Astrid |
| If the judiciary have declared it unlawful then Minister Watts needs to get it together and sort all councils out. No Central Government funding into any council area until they reverse their mistakes. | Ian |
| Every bit of cogovernance and maori spirituality indoctrination prove this. | Willy |
| May God have mercy on our poor wee country if this tribal takeover is not stopped in its tracks, and some degree of sanity is not restored | Rodger |
| This is flying under the radar and the tax payers are being kept in the dark. Wake up and stand up to stop it, we are all equal as it was in my school days. We now have a Donald Trump mindset amongst the young uneducated radicals. They will stell everything and then expect to still have the same income stream. Pity we do not have mainstream media are not reporting facts. | Jeff |
| Iwi now have far too much influence on every thing in NZ just bcause of who they are, nothing else and they are just giving our democracy the finger | Nev |
| So what will it take, for kiwis to get angry and rise up against organised tyrany?The last gang of Govt. Tyrants, forced a Fake Pandemic, to scare and terrify the population…they destroyed, your jobs, families and friends, lied to you about the poison mandated forced bio jabs, tested them on your children, also killed lots of innocent kiwis….so what will it take? I think I know…. it,s when they come for your pets, banning yor cats, dogs and pets, taken to be euthanised, and exterminated…. thats when there will be an uprising!!! | David |
| National have done nothing to stop the agenda for full takeover of NZ by Maori by 2040 | Carolyn |
| Firmly entrenched and the coalition lacks the will to reverse it | Laurie |
| Never trust Liebour | Dave |
| This creep by stealth of the iwi tribal eleite has definitely gone far to FAR! | Bruza |
| The coalition government has to act NOW!!! | Ray |
| but the takeover is rapidly moving forward…It needs to be stopped. | Raewyn |
| Well down the track,maybe too late now | John |
| Time to stop | Beverley |
| What is happening is similar to the early stages of Nazi rule in the early ’30s. It is time to leave this country, along with our tax dollars. | Andrew |
| I am of Tuhoe and Tainui descent and I am alarmed at this undemocratic development. | Pattie |
| This has been a slow but sure plan of radical Maori over many years and should be stopped before it’s too late. | Mary |
| Been watching it happen for a long time. Most NZers are complacent mugs oblivious to how they’re being had by expert drifters. | Murray |
| Too far gone…? | john |
| 1 voters role, ONLY NZ citizens may vote, Local councils can be removed mid term by a majority referendum. Number of seats reduced to less then 90. | Martin |
| LIKE PAVLOVS DOG, IF YOU KEEP GIVING THEM MONEY , THEY WILL KEEP AGITATING. FINLAYSON SHOULD BE IN PRISON. | Bruce |
| I work in local government ( unfortunately) and you can’t fart without asking Maori for permission. My coworkers and I are thoroughly sick of it. | Alastair |
| The Nats are too weak, they will not stand against this racial B/s. N.Z. First will gain many votes. | Bill |
| Pack of sneaky .. | Peter |
| I get so pissed off almost daily reading about the unjustified war on our democracy by these part-Maori radicals. It doesn’t surprise me that so many are jumping the ditch, and if I was 40 years younger, I’d be joining them! | Grant |
| Very little has been actioned by this government to Stop the Maori take over of our country. This was what we voted for – when is some action going to be taken. Remember an election is coming up and we can make a choice. No action, no vote | Heather |
| Far too advanced for comfort and the politicians are too timid to address it | John |
| Appalling. Simon Watts is no Daniel obviously! Why is he too scared to rock the boat?? He must understand how anti-democratic this is, despite what his activist public service advisers tell him, and how dangerous tribal takeover would be to our country! It’s time the Government removed all race based initiatives from legislation. | Mary |
| We are all born equal – sadly WOKE Governments have roll over themselves to reward intolerance and racial preference. This has to stop!!!! | DAVID |
| It is most frustrating that the majority of NZers are not concerned or proactive to prevent this. When they wake up it will be too late! | Marga |
| Retrospective Legislation has to be introduced abolishing ALL existing arrangements between IWI and all Councils throughout NZ ,before the election | Tony |
| Words fail me | Albert |
| It is time for ALL THE NEWZEALANDERS to fight for our Democratic Rights and let the Government know we want right action to see Democracy restored in New Zealand not the oppoosite!! | Dominique Greenslade |
| you can see that by all the so called treaty crap that our local mayor and her a**e lickers push forward, then with all the govt tv stations with the huge amount of that hori garble used, tvnz 1 is the worst during their breakfast show with the male announcer being the worst offender, but with luxon still our so called pm it will only get worse so NEW ZEALAND is no longer gods own country but a bankrupted lump of soil. | Richard |
| It has been in the planning for the last 50 years and it’s going to take someone with huge balls to stop it. | GARY |
| Thanks to lily-livered councils who are not standing up for thc vast majority of their constituents. | Mike |
| It’s got jet assistance from a National Minister who is visibly failing in his duty to provide what was promised | Rob |
| It needs to stop. Democracy is being negated , its abysmal to allow this undermining of the rights of all New Zealanders | nicole |
| This is illegal….yet the current has done nothing….this is not what they promised. | Ronald |
| Far too far advanced, and needs to be reversed before the coming election. | Greg |
| There is absolutely no doubt that activities towards Tribal Control Very well advanced | Ross |
| Officials elected under false pretences are so weak and woke they just stand by and let it happen. Why? | Richard |
| ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS – HOW DO WE LET THESE THINGS HAPPEN !!!! I’M STAYING DOWN THE SOUTH ISLAND | SHERYL |
| Democracy in this Country is just a joke. | Geoff |
| National Party – WHAT ARE YOU DOING? WE VOTED FOR YOU SPECIALLY TO STOP THIS HAPPENING!!!!!!!!!!!! | Sylvia |
| I am disappointed in National who were going to stop this race-based stuff. I and fed up with the Maori grab and will be voting for any party who is brave enough to bring back democracy to NZ. | Chris |
| National and to a degree ACT and NZ First were voted in to repeal all of the disgraceful non mandated te tiriti legislation that the Labour government underhandedly implemented creating a separatist state. We desperately need strong leadership to rectify all race based legislation effecting both central and local government. | Paul |
| Thank you Dr. Newman for your clear explanation of the CRIMINAL ACTION of the Labour government and Jacinda Ardern. At last the true story is revealed and the depths that they sank to.. This mess will take years to clean up and the fight back to democracy will be torrid and such a waste of time and money. | CHRIS |
| This not advancement, it is regression it needs to stop now. The current obvious disharmony amongst the iwi factions will lead to chaos. | Frank |
| This as to stop?? | Keith |
| I am very disappointed in the National Party for not stopping this. Lost my lifetime vote. | Tony |
| time to stop it | Mat |
| The Coalition have NOT kept their promise to rid New Zealand of race based idealism. | Laurence |
| It’s all very scarey now. If the brakes are not applied NOW, we will all be moving to Australia. | Dorothy |
| I USDED to trust WINSTON now I,v got doughts.I BELEIVE BEFORE the election ALL the govt.members NEED to act NOW & fix policies that make tax payers 2nd class in their own country | Cindy |
| Wake up NZ | Michael |
| It is no longer subtle, but in all aspects of our life .I tried to cancel the Advocate and was offered ‘inducements’ which I foolishly accepted.Within 7 days my access to the Herald had disappeared. I have become quite grumpy at times with opinion,being reported as fact. | Dick |
| Successive Governments have allowed this to happen especially those of Geoffrey Palmer, John Key and now Christopher Luxon. We the people in this country have no power whatsoever and Luxon’s refusal to back David Seymour’s Principles Bill aid it all. For him to say there was nothing in the Bill he agreed with really showed him for what he is, a weakling. This of course goes for National MP’s and member of the Party too. That just played into the Maori elite’s hands. They are the smart ones and are taking us for a ride every day and are allowed to get away with it. How they must be laughing at our stupidity and how easily we can be conned. Anyone who tries to have a conversation regarding the situation we are facing is immediately called a racist and of course our very biased MSM make sure that point of view is promptly in print, radio and TV. | Bev |
| Wake up, Kiwis! We’re being held to ransom by a tribal minority. This is New Zealand, not Aotearoa! | Rose |
| I’m an 82yr old and worried about our country, regarding future generations. | Lyn |
| And the worst part of all this is, it’s Funded by the Tax Payers !! There’s an old Saying very relevant today, ‘People with Power want Money and People with Money want Power’ !! If you want to make Democratic Decisions for everyone, GET ELECTED like everyone else, NOT enforce yourselves. which will eventually will lead to Violence !! | Geoff |
| National, ACT and NZ First must grow a backbone and tackle this insidious situation whereby maori are taking over this country with relative ease. Don’t need to worry about China and other supposed rogue states, NZ has its own homegrown disaster | Neville |
| It must be brought forward as a major devate at our elections later this year and a promise by the center right coalition to ltable legislation immediately following the election | Patrick |
| The truth of the matter is that all those who have left for Australia have done the right thing. I now truly wish my family never left the British Isles in the first place. What a disaster this country has turned into. | Paul |
| Really frightening | Ruth |
| There is no democracy within some local coucils Far North in question | Ni8 |
| Change it now | Wiremu |
| Extremely well advanced, Just ask any private contractor in NZ All need permission, cultural reports or onsight watchers before councils allow any work to get started. This is why everything in NZ costs multimillions of dollars to get done or started. 180 million here, 180 million there, it must be a good life for these rich maori grifters. Vote NZ 1st or Act because if all those maori loving parties, Labour, greens, maori parties get in, last one leaving NZ please turn the lights off. | Kevan |
| this is really frightening. | Valda |
| has to be stopped. | Gerhard |
| We need a strong government to stand up to and abolish this tribal takeover and control .sadly National are under a weak leader – NZFirst and Act have got my vote. | Bev |
| Scrap all the “Treaty” nonsense. Grow up New Zealand .. become one people. One race.. One rule for all . | kabe |
| And National just sick around like lame ducks. | Michael |
| The constant demand that the Treaty of Waitangi be installed into education, laws etc, needs to stop. This was a Treaty signed in good faith by the Chiefs of the time, who wanted the protection of NZ’s Laws , and become one people all functioning together. Time to put it to bed once and for all. Treaties internationally are for a short period only. We need to follow this example | Elaine |
| Why is this government doing nothing about this. | Allan |
| This shameful betrayal of a democratic nation is so advanced there is no way back. With spineless cowardly and treacherous so called progressive (actually regressive) liberals enabling this treachery we are doomed. Winston Peters stated around 2011 that tribal rule would make NZ the Zimbabwe of the South Pacific and that’s where we are headed. NZ is on track to Third World backwater status. If these greedy corrupt Iwi fools think NZers and wealth are going to stay here to be plundered they are as delusional as they seem. Migrants will stop coming, investment will dry up and population flight will occur. Iwi fools have been bleeding the taxpayer for so long the are blind to a day when there are no taxpayers left. | John |
| While the takeover is well advanced; there is no sign that any effort is being taken to advance local causes. Merely lining the pockets of these leaders | Peter K |
| Blind Freddy can see what’s at play here – plain avarice for someone else’s property enabled by political cowardice. Simon Watts should go! | Mick |
| It’s well advanced and needs to be decapitated immediately! | Brenda |
| colourblind is the only way forward | Brian |
| The country is doomed unless National wake up and do the job they promised | Peter |
| This government went back on its promises from day one National are just a bunch of no hopers vote Act or NZ First or leave for Australia NZ is doomed the way it’s going | Peter |
| should have been sorted last century by making all residents 100% equal | Collin |
| The article is a very good summary. Thanks Muriel and con.. | Mark |
| There is evidence this is happening in many Councils. I support what Muriel is saying. It is undemocratic and if allowed will continue until the wider community force Government to legislate out control aspects that only favour Maori. Our Political leaders are timid and are hiding our heads in the sand. We asked National to make a stand on such insidious practices but they have done little. | Paul |
| A major failure by the coalition government to reverse this despite pre election promises to do this | Ross |
| Given the amount of unelected Tribal influence on councils it has to be a big yes. | John |
| This is not what we voted for. If this situation is not reversed then I fear for our democratic future in N Z. | John |
| All politicians appear to be terrified of being called racist. They are ; but against anyone who is not of some maori descent. | Ann |
| As stated in Muriel’s excellent expose. | Hugh |
| Sabotage of democracy. | Jill |
| This is very bad and must be stopped | Sue |
| So disappointed at the coalitions powerless behaviour to execute their promise to remove maorification of govt rulings. | Gregar |
| Governments may be changed, but bureaucrats persist and resist. Drastic action is needed to stop the rot. | Mark |
| Additional comment A major plan is underway to change the NZ constitution leading to tribal rule by 2040 . This includes the reference to UNDRIP in the NZ/India FTA and could lead to a new legal status for this document. and later , to constitutional change itself. People should become more familiar with this issue and how it ilinks to the He Puapua agenda. | Mary |
| Who will benefit in the long run. Little maori will still live at the bottom, tribalism is about ones station. | sven |
| Too well advanced. | MAlcolm |
| So much for the present government’s promise. But heaven help us us if Labour gets in at the next election | Marlene |
| I have been watching this evolve under the Coalition Government It is well embedded Just look into the statements and policies of Min of Business Innovation and E. to see the endless pages all outlined to its employees on Treaty manifest and of course their daily kariakia carry on!! | Murray |
| Maori MPs in all political parties seem to support legislation that favours maori – haven’t heard one, other than Winston Peters and David Seymore stand up and say that there is NO mention of partnership in the Treaty of Waitanghi, nor are there any ‘principles’. | Sandra |
| Why ask when its been legislated into Public Service Act 2020 and more to ensure the Treaty is sunk into all levels of public service and guess what Luxon and ACT are not removing it ! Durrhhh does no one really see it happening despite complaining and thinking they will? | Rob |
| Vote ACT | Mike |
| bring back one man one vote | John |
| Vert well advanced | chris |
| National, under Luxon’s leadership, is polling poorly because our PM is not honouring his coalition agreements with ACT and NZF on removing race out of our legislation. Voters supported ACT and NZF largely because of the divisions these tribal so-called “elites” have been causing by enacting their agenda to take over governance of this country by 2040. | Robyn |
| Thank you I now understand more. It’s alarming and plays into the globalist agenda plan. | Adrienne |
| It’s scary! | Bruce |
| What is the Coalition government doing to counter effect this. Nothing , they are too scared to fall out of line . I believe this can and will be an election issue. | Rob |
| Like another comment, I also would look to voting for a party that would pledges to remove all race-based initiatives from legislation. | William |
| Absolutely – and looking like nothing can stop it after all the broken promises from our elected leaders – | Jill |
| A well advanced takeover I would say. After a member of my family had completed a reading of Adam Plover’s book titled, THE BENEFITS OF COLONISATION in New Zealand (140 pages) his immediate reaction was,, It should be mandatory reading for every politician in our government. The 20 chapters to name a few include, Superstition, Slavery, Infanticide, Tribal Warfare and Cannibalism. That’s TIKANGA for you and most people to whom I mention that word have never heard of it. Yes, they all know what Te Reo is. Time to teach how bad the tribal customs of Tikanga are. Another recent release from Tross is an eleven page booklet titled GREEDY TRIBES WEAK Government = LOSS OF OUR RIGHTS. After six pages of commentary follows five pages of Legislative Acts Dividing New Zealanders by Race, from 1974 to 2017. History books that record the names of politicians who have so far helped in bringing about legislative tribalism to an otherwise once civilised country should stink. Time is running out. | Donald |
| Insidious influence of Govt non thinkers. Do lally glide time staff who do not understand how NZ Inc works | John |
| If the public servants arent doing what parliment tell them to do they need to be sacked forthwith. Once a few get sacked the rest will quickly fall into line to save their jobs. | Peter |
| The Government is going to have to past law that completely removes anything to do with Maori , All written words should be in English. | Don |
| If the FTA with India has an UNDRIP clause at our government’s instigation and against National’s 2023 election promises, who would vote for National again? | Peter |
| I’m a Councillor. I see it happening in our Council and I oppose it. | Bruce |
| Thought the coalition was going to sort this out and stop it happening. | jakz |
| The takeover is now rife and we need to act decisively on this matter | Dennis |
| He iwi tahi tatou. We are one people | Malcolm |
| Not democracy !!! | George |
| All part of the agenda to destroy NZ. Really…who can we vote for? | Kathy |
| And to follow the countries who have dumped any race or colour-based policies is also entirely in the best interests of everyone. | Maurice |
| This must be stopped! It is pure robbery of Ratepayers funds to Councils! How on earth do Ratepayers allow this to happen! | Valerie |
| I am disappointed that the parties who campaigned on stopping this appear to have done nothing. | Sarah |
| Definitely, get them out if they are not voted in | Mike |
| Nothing will change until the decent NZ Nats (how many are we talking about?) roll Luxon. He’s employed by the WEF to destroy NZ just as Ardern was until it got too hot for her. Get Luxon and his followers (Willis with the cheque book is another) and Luxon will leave either just prior to or just after the election if the Nats don’t act, with a bucket of money and a pending Sir. | Carly |
| ACT seems to be the only party taking this seriously | Paul |
| Creepy, Crawly, stealth | Jim |
| Blind Freddie can see how advanced the appalling tribal elite criminals are at their games under He Puapua and Matike Mai. PM Luxon is either blind or complicit – I know which of these I believe. | Doug |
| The Maori takeover is more than well entrenched, it is aided and encouraged by the coalition government who got into power by electioneering on getting rid of virtually all things Maori.This was the excuse con stupid voters to give them the government benches.What suckers we were. | Peter |
| Well expressed in this article | Jennifer |
| I can’t believe that good Kiwis are standing idly by and letting this happen. Moving back to the UK was the best thing I ever did. | John |
| National cannot be trusted to turn this around. | steph |
| A war is looming. | Dave |
| Unelected people shouldn’t get paid | Chris |
| What a shocking set of circumstances! All because we have a bias, bigoted MSM. SO MUCH DECEPTION when things are not reported on a National platform. We have to rely on other sources and not all New Zealanders are aware there are other credible sources. We are in a battle to protect democracy for all regardless of race. | Dianne |
| This will end NZ | Mike |
| People dont realise | Lynn |
| Well advanced unfortunately | Barbara |
| FNDC is fully tribal. There is no democracy up here. | john |
| Keep up the great work Dr Muriel,we need to be reminded how we are being taken over by tribal infiltration. | Murray |
| White, pathetic patsies have facilitated greedy race-based power & funding grabs. They are ignorant of or just don’t care how harmful such race-based incentives can be. | Fiona |
| Have to be reversed as quickly as possible | Kay |
| This government has been very slow in implementing policies to protect democracy at local government level. | Wayne |
| Somewhat advanced would have been a better description. Either way APARTHEID in NZ is alive & well. | Geoffrey |
| It is well advanced, very concerning. | Kim |
| National promised to get rid of all race based decisions and they have not done so. They have let their voters down. If they want people to vote for them, they should honor their pledges. | Dianne |
| this needs to be spelt out loud and clear to be stopped | leo |
| The state beaurocracy are ensuring this continues | Willy |
| Nats broken promises. Wont be given a second chance. | Fred |
| The horse is out of the coral and galloping across the country. The best way to stop it is to not vote at the next local body elections. Firstly get off our bums and protest. | Owen |
| Our politicians have let us down | M |
| should have been sorted last century by making all residents 100% equal | Collin |
| Seriously Scary. And the Nats just watch. As always they promised the failed to deliver. The other lot are even worse. | Richard |
| It has to be stopped NOW | Frank |
| A betrayal by National of their pre-election promise | Shirl |
| This fiasco has to be terminated NOW. Does Minister Watts not realise that the entire future of New Zealand is largely in his hands to start with and subsequently with the govt and the bills before Parliament. Where are those that promised to get rid of all the crap put in place by Ardern and her lot. God help NZ if these bills are not passed into law. . | Martyn |
| Completely undemocratic and invites racial segregation. It is obviously illegal | Warren |
| If the 20,000 bureaucrats employed by Labour aren’t prepared to assist the elected coalition government with its pledges to remove tribal influence, then end their employment and replace them with people who will. | John |
| The tribal takeover is now so far advanced that it will be almost impossible to overturn. Time is running out! | John |
| Before our very own eyes!! Invisible to the Coalition!!! | Alastair |
| …and must be stopped and reversed with out delay. This government must develop some guts and get rid of this dangerous nonsense NOW!!! | Ray |
| Way too well advanced and needs to be reversed | Alec |
| Reading between the lines as outlined and in some cases demonstrated NZers must STOP this undemocratic action by IWI whose principal aim appears to be filling their own pockets exclusively!! | Karen |
| They’ve been working on it for years. They’re playing the long game. | Andrew |
| National has betrayed its voters and will continue to do so if Luxon and Watt and the other simpering idiots are left in charge .Winston can’t be trusted and Seymour has yet to prove himself although he shows promise he’s unlikely to have the decision making powers for some time to come .Perhaps too late | Graham |
| A total disgrace.. One country one people.. | Don |
| Take out all race based legislation, remove the Maori seats, become one. | Alan |
| This has to be stopped. Is Gary Judd going to seek a court action to prevent the takeover? | Kerry |
| The current government have failed to pass the promised legislation to prevent this happening and cancel existing provisions adopted by Councils. | Les |
| So well advanced you could almost say Co Governance in Local Government is entrenched thanks to compliant Mayors and Councillors who were elected to repel it. | pdm |
| Unless there tribal take overs are reversed then arace war is coming in N.Z. | Derek |
| I am part Maori and I am very uncomfortable with a system that is allowing non voting representation to a select group who often have feelings of wrong doing for things that happened before any of us were born. We now have equal opportunity and it is up to each person to gain the education and use their experience to get ahead. Some will and some will not. It is the way of the world | Alan |
| Shades of Rambuka in Fiji when they overthrew the Crown (treason) And rendered their mostly Locally born Indian people to second class citizen status. Greatly impoverished them. Me thinksOur Government is not sure of the backing and support of our Police and Armed Forces to enable them to put an end to this illegal, immoral Maori bullying and treasonous take over tactics. I do not think God can defend New Zealand, nor can our elected Government. Whatto do? | Murray |
| The Government must act now prior to the election to overturn all race-based legislation in Local & National Government | Jim |
| Needs to be stopped asap! | lee |
| a case well made in this newsletter | John |
| Unelected Iwi Maori on councils, Potaka taking back DOC managed land and giving it back to Maori, Maori customary fishing rights, and the list goes on and on. National pledged to abolish co-governance and it is worse that ever. Civil war in the near future I am picking is well on the cards if something isn’t done to put a stop to all this Maori surge in everything New Zealand. | Wayne |
| So disappointing when we were promised abolition of racist laws. Sadly another term of National won’t fix it if their inaction to date is anything to go by and ACT and NZ First don’t have enough seats to make it so either. | David |
| Already a done deal. Too late to do anything about it. | George |
| about half the way there overall | Waikanae |
| nz has got major problemz coming from maoris | graeme |
| Next thing it will be bow and scrape to Maori whenever they ask for it. | Warren |
| The astonishing lack of realization of this native takeover from the centre-right is pitiful. Are they in cohorts or just plain gutless to take it on. | Hugh |
| IMO Maori activists are hastily pushing all controls through before their claim of indigenous rights are archaeologically proven a lie. Latest findings show white skin immigrants thousands of yrs before Maori arrived here. H Clarke hid this from public til 2070. The Labour Party are crooked to the core. | Karen |
| National has done nothing to halt this advance. Why not? | Jeff |
| It must be stopped now, once and forever. | alastair |
| this was going on for the last 20 years but no one would believe me , even the royal family who assinder is advising is involved in the take over | adrian |
| It’s going on apace under our noses and most of us don’t know it’s happening. Sadly, I think this government will do little – or nothing – to stop it. | Laurence |
| Terrible situation. Totally non democratic. | Alison |
| no, NOT ‘well advanced’, but ‘TOTAL.’ the oppression of ANY culture- ie non-maori kiwi history in favour of fake maori culture, rabid anti-colonialism, has seen pandering to all things ‘maori’ imbedded throughout this lost country | mark |
| National has failed in it’s promise to clean the mess. No wonder people are turning in good numbers to Act and NZ First. It should have been sorted in the first Parliamentary term of this Government | Rob |
| Really shocking ! | Patrick |
| Government must act URGENTLY by retroactive legislation , to retrospectively invalidate all such appointments of (activist) appointees with full voting rights to Council , enabling them to numerically dominate elected Councillors votes and to totally control Council’s authority and activities and they must additionally totally preclude such practices going forward. | Hugh |
| The bureaucrats in Wellington and the majority of schoolteachers are assisting Maori to achieve their goals. | Christopher |
| Time is running out. | Ray |
| Train wreck …. | Rob |
| Stop it before the election, and make any laws retrospective. | LAURA |
| The fact that no centrist politician has gone public objecting to such an obvious obscenity and such an affront to democracy appalls me. I will vote for the first party that clearly and unequivocally opposes this nonsense. | Roger |
| …and nothing seems to be being done about it. All it needs for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. | ken |
| while NZers dream on… deserve whats coming | Gill |
| It MUST be stopped before the coming election. | AndyE |
| Needs to be rectified asap.. | Jeremy |
| Why are the T.P.M so RACIST? National have gone onto the backfoot, and appear to be cowering in fear again? WINSTON, knows how to stand up to them, and will collect hundreds of NATIONAL PEOPLES VOTES COME ELECTION TIME! | David |
| No more MAORI issues. | Valerie |
| National Party have let the public down badly. Luxon can not disguise this any longer. He has lost my vote and that of my family | Dennis |
| a democratic disaster and politician do nothing. | Thomas |
| The reason the tribal takeover is so well advanced, is that promises made before the 2023 election were not kept. Are we ever going to get a major political party in this country who honour promises made before an election, or do their knees turn to jelly at the very thought of upsetting the part Polynesian parasites who are hell-bent on a racist takeover of NZ? A massive surge in voter numbers, both in ACT and NZ First, seems to be our only hope in the foreseeable future! | Scott |
| It has reached a dangerous level which requires strong pushback from all Kiwis who value democracy! | Donna |
| We can ALL say NO! It is time these so-called tribal elites were put in their place. The SAME place as the rest of us. WE ARE ALL SUPPOSED TO BE EQUAL! | Heather |
| The takeover may have reached the stage where it is irreversible in the minds of New Zealanders who therefore will not act. Many people, like me, will leave New Zealand permanently | Peter |
| Simon Watts is sitting on his hands doing nothing. We are not happy at all with this situation | Tony |
| Instead of legislation removing co-government it appears that the coalition has actually operated to both entrench and expand co-government legislation | Bruce |
| This has to stop for NZ to move forward | Ann |
| I believe our country (New Zealand) is lost. I like many others dislike being called a “visitor” and also “pakeha” -(GRRR) I was born here and my ancestors for the most part did exactly what the “maori” did and sailed here. So don’t treat us like 2nd class citizens. 🙁 Maybe this is also part of Agenda 2030. Divide and split people in the nations. And then set up World domination 🙁 | Jackie |
| I guess maori bullies is the way our future democratic forecast is obvious . My greatest respect for the far North councilor , Mrs Smoulders who is being ballied and ganged up on by unelected maori rable . What a huge desire to protect ALL kiwis voting rights obviously drives her . Well done , shame on you Shane Jones ,showing your narrow minded views against on this ,disgusting racial based agenda ,you are truly showing your gross ignorance and show how totally biased your thinking is , NZF are pure hypocrites trying to get a larger share of the coalition pie . dont br fooled Kiwis Winston has burned too many bridges to be considered giving your vote to . Now his sidekick has shown the depth of dishonesty is festering just below the surface . | Ray |
| STOP the Maori tsunami, one nation, all cultures to be equally treated! | Kathryn |
| The march along the separatist path is out in the open now, so it must be well advanced indeed. | Neil |
| Maori did cede sovereignty to the crown. We are one people governed by one Parliament. | Grant |
| In all political spheres Wake up before it’s too late! | Brenda |
| Need to remove all apartheid legislation ASAP | David |
| Dangerously advanced. | Ann |
| Yes. Well advanced illustrated by the silence and thus seemingly acceptance by what seems to be especially leader Luxon’s support for the seemingly very pro “trribal takeover of Local Government in New Zealand.” Where is the Nation’s democratic vote to go down this path – when there has NOT been a democratic National referendum? Why is leader Luxon being so dictatorial and seemingly secretive not calling for a referendum? Guess who he must be representing? | Stuart |
| It is almost complete. Both NZ First and the National party are a disgrace to the New Zealand public, both of these parties promised to do away from all of this stuff, and the only party that has worked for us is Act. Just look at the far North Council that you talk about, it wax an Act member that stood up against these other radicals on their own. Act is the only party that has stood firm against all of this racial crap. | Peter |
| It’s in line with a bureaucracy that shows a similar trend | Rick |
| About 90% | john |
| It’s only well advanced because the the spineless government we have at the moment has failed miserably to act on it’s election promises, but who or what would we replace these useless pr%$#s with? | Trevor |
| It’s way pass time to nip this SHIT in the butt, the Government has dragged the chain on these matters which is NOT what a very large amount of voters wanted and it could end up doing more damage for this Government than they think but if they come out and openly pledge that they will act on these issues in the first term then maybe that will be their saving grace .After all they are still the much better deal for the country than that other lot, because if the other lot do scrap in then this country could see the biggest exit of people in decades, GOD SAVE US ALL. | COLIN |
| the act party will be getting my vote because of the wishy washy effort by National | Graham |
| time to kick the freeloaders and opportunists out of Council s | Les W |
| Masked by a biased and compliant press | John |
| I am amazed that this has been allowed to happen. Maori themselves should all be feeling uncomfortable that this can happen. It is quite unbelieveable. | Murray |
| Most councils are facing the same dilemma | Lindsay |
| Far advanced, aided and abetted by weakness and wokeness. And as for the COALITION OF COAGULATION, they are pitiful .NZ1ST, yeah right ! sounds like a Tuis add. Should read NZ1ST ,1ST. ACT—SLOWLY, GET A BLOODY MOVE ON! NATIONAL DISGRACE !!! Do not under any circumstances reward National with your vote, they have betrayed New Zealand and thrown its people to the dogs !. They are just as big grifters as the part maoris . What is unimaginable today will seem inevitable tomorrow if we don`t do something to stop it. THERE IS SOMETHING EVERY ONE OF US CAN DO, find out what it is and get busy YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS- YOU ! Mobilize | Glyn J |
| It is gaining momentum and our government is allowing/encouraging it to happen. The usual – preaching one thing to the electorate and doing the opposite when elected. It needs to stop or it will destroy this beautiful country! | Martin |
| totally unacceptable | Richard |
| This worries me about the future of New Zealand. Local Government should be given explicit parameters by which they are to operate under, and those officers seen to deviate from these should be removed from office immediately. | Sue |
| Might be too late | Thomas |
| The government and minister of local bodies is negligent in his duties to allow this to continue and this is why National have lost 25% of their members | Jillian |
| Absolutely appalling and MUST be stopped and reversed. | Lucy |
| Oh boy ..the Govt needs to step up now ! Otherwise they will hand the election to the Labour led block. | Terry |
| It is sickening. If I was younger, I’d move to Australia. | Barbara |
| This is getting out of control, if not elected they have no say. If they want to be on council stand for a seat !! | Warren |
| There is no Democracy, only the illusion of it | Nick |
| You only need to come to Northland to see how well this is advanced. | Stephen |
| Pigs in the trough | Chris |
| It’s the thin end of the wedge but it’s already here in Whanganui. | Peter |
| Well advanced and I fear it may result in a civil war. A tribal based system would be a regression to the stone age and the loss of democracy. | Bryan |
| Just outrageous ! | Jenny |
| May not be well advanced yet, but certainly more than ‘little advanced’. The rogue Councils are thumbing their noses at the Public for daring to disagree with their Policies ! Shame on them ! | Robyn |
| It has become quite scary how the little insidious word here and there in legislation is now ballooning. It will take a big effort to stop it now. But we must. | Steve |
| Media, government and corporations bend over backwards to satisfy the money grabbing, power hungry NZ polynesians. | Bruce |
| Horse last seen galloping over the horizon. Luxon last seen looking at broken stable door… | Murray |
| IT IS TIME THAT ALL NEWZEALANDERS RECLAIM THEIR RIGHTS!!!! NOT LET MAORI IWI BE SO GREEDY!! | Dominique Greenslade |
| I’m continually amazed how many white people including some of our friends back maori co-governance. When pointed out to them the loss of their democracy they don’t seem to care. | Judy |
| Complicit are the Bureaucrats, the Judiciary and MSM (Media) It is WEF Globalist policy. Ardern and Luxon are advancing this globalist Socialist garbage. NZ FIRST might fix it – I don’t see any other party sorting it. | John |
| Our gutless politicians in this coalition are responsible. When the lack of backbone that Luxon shows, we should not be surprised at the lack of progress in reversing the Labour driven trends | Peter |
| I am very seriously concerned about this and so should all other New Zealandersand feel betrayed by National who made it part of their Election promises to bring back a Democratic society here but hasn’t, | Linda |
| It stinks | Graeme |
| a little is still too much | noel |
| Luxon and National deserve a caning for not repealing the legislation. Luxon has been incredibly weak on this topic. | Lindsay |
| Tararua District corporation (cuncil) has appointed 2 more racists with full voting rights | Greg |
| Legal and correct democracy must be retained at all cost as we move forward! | Garry |
| I’m sick of it Never before have I witnessed such blatant money and power grabbing | Alan |
| Totally undemographic | Gary |
| Councils are listening to iwi and not to ratepayers. Maori are demanding far too much say and bureaucrats don’t look into the truth of historical matters and simply accept invented history from iwi. I can cite several instances where this has happened. Considering the FACT that Maori are NOT indigenous to New Zealand the demands that Maori are making are totally out of control. | Amy |
| It’s very worrying. | Ross |
| We the general public have to take some of the responsibility for the great tribal grab for their never ending grifting hunger for political power and huge riches, which by the way, will not be of any significant benefit to us ordinary folk including ordinary people who identify as Maori. Note, I believe that as early as 1843 a Lord John Russel warned the gentry on being soft on Maori Demands. Every cent that goes toward Maori extortion is an extra cost in our supermarkets, in our power bills and in life’s overall general costs. All this nonsense has got to stop. It is unfortunate that Finlayson and Key disregarded Helen Clark’s sensible position on the matters concerning all New Zealand citizens collective foreshore ownership, the UN UNIDP document regarding special rights for indigenous peoples. It wasn’t even necessary. We the people need to bear much more pressure upon our elected ruling class to do as they promised, as we wanted. However it is plain to see that PM Luxon is terrified of confronting usurping loud demonstrations of false and fraudulent Maori power. He has let us down. He has failed us. He must go ASAP otherwise the situation with him at the Helme will be a disastrous wreaking of our wee Nation. There are hundreds of housewives in our country that could do a better job than he is doing. He has shown us that he is a fragile hollow being not up to doing the tough yards. Oh lord give us the strength to prevail. | garry |
| wake up simon watts | brian |
| needs action to stop and protect our democratic governance | kerry |
| We desperately need a Javier Milei in this country complete with chainsaw to sort out this mess we’re in | Dave |
| Far more advanced than most people realize. As an ex-teacher I am appalled at the intrusion of all things Maori into education. My old school where I was once the principal has banned me via Facebook for ‘mumbo-jumbo and even locally we have Maori councillor who will not debate with anyone she disagrees with. How do we wake up the populace? | Roger |
| I’ve ‘had’ Maori wonderfulness | Fiona |
| I blame Lucson and Golsmith and the National Party for their failure and that is why NZ First is gaining traction and ACT are holding. Those two parties will demand change come election time. | Ken |
| So tired of this self-interest group bullying media and everyone who disagrees with them. | Susan |
| Coalition actions are not what I voted for! | Andi |
| The Coalition government must address this issue with urgency, for the future health of Nz democracy. | Jim |
| It is obvious at every turn. Only radical measures -i.e. dismiss about 30000 so called Govt department ‘workers’ to start with and replace them by properly trained and experienced professionals. Next : stop payments to the mainstream media and cut them loose. Let independent media come in. When the first 30000 new employees have settled in. Look what else we can get rid of. He Pua Pua . Maori language only on a voluntary basis. No funding for LBGTXYZQOPRs etc. Rid schools of all that stuff. The list is endless. | Michael |
| I’m totally against the take over of any council by Maori interest groups. | Grant |
| The TAKEOVER is well advanced. The country is STUFFED….”When good men do nothing.” God defend New Zealand! | Bruce |
| The public need to be made aware of this back door and underhanded goals of this rabble’ | Mike |
| It’s well advanced if politicians with their hangers on can’t change it unless instruction and oversight are being disregarded allowing bureaucrats to pull the strings. Surely it must be obvious to our MP’s what is happening and holding them to ridicule. Instruct independent legal experts to prepare the wording and leave bureaucrats out of it. Then give the staff who can’t get it right and give them a written warning. | Mike |
| The problem is now to big for any of us. It needs leadership with balls not turpins to immediately fix this problem. We are heading into a UK fiasco | Mike |
| There have been some recent items in the news that prove the iwi are getting more and more control – not voted for, not discussed n public. | Alison |
| This is quite frightening and shows how easily democracy can be lost. Wake up, before it is too late. | Paloma |
| I’m afraid I don’t hold much hope anything will be done before the election and if labour get in NZ is stuffed. National is more concerned getting their GE bill and centralisation of councils. | Vaughan |
| It’s out of control | Janne |
| Tauranga Council has unelected paid iwi members on Council committees. It undermines democracy | Steve |
| very well advanced and sheeted home in the public service – government needs to get tough and remove the agitators & make examples of them – start with the education Ministry | Peter |
| And advancing fast | Gerry |
| The Coalition before the last election promised to wind back the Maorification of New Zealand. Another broken promise. And politicians wonder why they have no public respect. | Peter |
| Taupo. Local iwi are very determined to get as much control as they can. Regardless of how that will affect those that live in Taupo and pay rates. | RICHard |
| Strong legislation eliminating this illegal move must be passed this term | Tony |
| Totally unacceptable! | Hylton |
| The Government needs to take a very firm stance immediately. | Faye |
| It makes me sick because in my work place they still have waita and karakea, decolonisation posters everywhere and a Maori equity leader despite being told to stop. It’s highly offensive but because it’s Maori doing it then it just keeps on going. | Cath |
| Our PM is afraid to move against anything to that affects iwi. | Glyn |
| And we need a govt who has the courage to stop this nonsense. Yes, it will cause disruptions, but it needs to be done, and Now | Gail |
| Help. how do we stop this? | Judith |
| praxis driven marxism that has redefined truth is utilizing primitivism and poor education to enable revolution | robert |
| Well advanced, however I do believe it can be stopped. (Taupo DC is a perfect example of now is the time to stop it) We just need to get as organised as the Maori marketing machine is. | Catherine |
| Well advanced, we need to rein it in fast. | Kate |
| Time it was deleted | Murrat |
| It is time that the coalition live up to their promise that all New Zealand citizens are equal regardless of their ethnicity. They must make it clear that a tribal takeover will not be tolerated. This government must stop giving millions of taxpayers money to the part Maori citizens. We are all one people. | Steve |
| National have betrayed their election promises to eliminate all racial policies. | dj |
| It’s about time everyone realized that we are one people, one Country. No more payouts or bribes | Helen |
| Must be stopped and reversed | Lynton |
| It needs to be immediately stopped through an act of parliament banning non- elected persons holding positions and voting power that over rules elected councillors | Malcolm |
| cant believe how weak national have become in allowing this takeover to happen but shouldnt be surprised when one of the first things Luxton said in a post election speech was that he needed to learn more Te Reo. | Brian |
| I live in The Far North Council area and can see what is happening here and the sooner I can sell and vacate the better. Sad, VERRRY sad. BrianW. | Brian |
| I cannot understand why the National Government is ” pussy footing” around & not stopping this nonsense as they promised at their election. Why have Government Agencies & Council been allowed to deft Government directives. | Jillian |
| FNDC is out of control and should be replaced by a commissioner forthwith. | John |
| They maois, want to claim all benefits for their polynesssian race yet cany look after and care for their own slackers, street slepers, druggies and criminals. Sort their own crap out before robbing the rest of the population. continual hands out. | mike. |
| The brakes need to be applied hard and fast. | Mike |
| And the government does nothing, if Kings Council have deemed it illegal act on it, ie. Shut it down. NOW | Trevor |
| National, enact the legislation NOW. You are failing all New Zealanders. Is their anyone with a Spine who will do what you promised the Nation. | Noel |
| Getting rid of RC’s is a mistake.It’s the TLA’s that are the bigger problem.I bet there are moves afoot to control any new setup. | allan |
| I voted National because they promised to remove co governance, but all they did was change the name. | alf |
| It needs to be repealed | Dave |
| It is high time that race-based representation was no longer considered . I suppose many Maori people don’t even know what is going on-just the activists who see something in it for themselves and the sinister element of the labour Party Labour Party . Do we have a ‘Deep State’ in New Zealand who are following there own secret course? | Harvey |
| It’s gut-wrenching | Paul |
| Time to revert to giving power to elected officials only | simon |
| Every NZ government (or other NZ) organisation these days, seems to have to, include Maori wishes and naming rights, these so called rights supposedly in line with The Treaty of Waitangi. What about us other NZERS. | Mark |
| This National Led Government has been a bitter dissapointment to me insofar as it has broken several of its pre-election promises. This is especially true in the continuation of Labour`s Co-governance agenda and continually bowing to the Maori elite and their agenda Apart from Act`S David Seymour, who has the courage of his convictions to suggest a few workable answers to the problems, and NZ First, who are very vocal about the problems but don`t appear to have some concrete solutions, it seems to me that National has been captured by the Woke, elitist factions that seem to comtrol Government`s thinking. | Pieter |
| Maori were NEVER indigionous! | Derek |
| Well advanced, and on top of which whatever group is actually drafting legislation seems to be able to routinely sneak-in key aspects of this agenda – even the India FTA. Do MP’s not read legislation before they vote and/or if MP’s just block vote along party lines, why do we need more than a handful of them? Further entrenchment via ‘education’. the stacking of LGNZ, and even embedded into the Act controlling Incorporated bodies (as of recently). Hard to see really how one would undo all of this now. | Tony |
| Gone far too far already and a stake has to be put in the ground right now | John |
| Race based legislation must stop | Trevor |
| This movement has to be stopped immediately, otherwise we will no longer be living in a Democratic country. The Government needs to move on this matter without any delay. | Gifford |
| It is far too advanced & the National party have been absolutely useless at reigning this corruption in. If this does not change immediately New Zealand will be absolutely screwed. It is hardly surprising that so many Kiwi’s are leaving NZ. | David |
| unbelievable, and I thought we were a democratic nation | Gerhard |
| But how do you stop it? NZ signed the UN indigenous rights treaty allowing for more than co- governance. Who signed it? John Key. I do not agree with it at all! | Maurice |
| So far advanced that it is probably too late to stop it. The departure lounge from NZ is growing due to this Maori takeover of our country | Lawrie |
| Sadly ! | Jane |
| We are ONE people All should be treated equally | Ian |
| The bureaucracy needs to be cut & tamed to be what it used to be -helpful, supportive & neutral to the elected agenda. | Doug |
| Needs to be an Election issue. Elected versus No-elected controls. | Lee |
| And probably irreversible as no part has the guts to stop it. | Daniel |
| It is already well advanced, thanks to the many non-Maori do-gooders who are too naive to see the graft staring them in the face. | Martin |
| About time we became as we were one Nation on People. And NOT Divided and NOT Racial as we are NOW. | Carl |
| God help us | Alister |
| The Maorification of New Zealand must end before there is civil war. | Grant |
| This Coalition Government is not living up to its promises. Government legislation should reflect one people, one law in this country. And as for Local Bodies – elected officials only with the power to vote! | Bruce |
| Stop it | Carl |
| They must be stopped! | David |
| It is all happening because msm are not reporting it and the average person doesn’t have a clue. | Lew |
| Like a runaway train, could be too late to stop !! And obviously , the Coalition have put it in the “TOO HARD” basket | Geoffrey |
| All elections for local body positions must be by democratic popular vote there can be no place for direct and or standard appointments based upon race or ethnicity . If this is allowed it will lead to nepotism and corrupt practices to the benefit only of select groups. | John |
| WCC is heavily affected and wasting millions on tribal nonsense. Wellington Water is following the same disaster. | Dave |
| The govts first job was TO UNWIND ALL LABOURS LEGLISATION ON THE TREATY AND OTHER BILLS | Colin |
| The National led coalition and its National Cabinet Ministers lack the guts to do what is right and proper in a democracy. | William |
| The increased bullying of Councilors by IWI staff is getting very concerning | malcolm |
| It’s popping up in a number of councils and is being talked about in many others | Alvin |
| The horse has bolted… | Mark |
| The capture of the hearts and minds of public servants has ensured that any suggestion to purge Te Tiriti from legislation is regarded and loudly labelled “racist” | Peter |
| Our craven politicians are betraying our country, it’s time for a clean sweep | Peter |
| A disgrace. Non-constitutional. Extreme racism. | Angela |
| It was obvious – just read the employment contracts of anyone wanting to work at a local council. | Trevor |
| very concerned must be one people one country named NZ equal rights | anthony |
| without govt. intervention now, this year’s election will end up with disastrous results! | Fred |
| Also alarmed at the HUGE advertising campaign for Maori to make sure they are on the Voting Roll. | Peter |
| IF they look like taking over the country by 2040, then there will be a Civil War for sure! | ROD |
| it is bloody SCARRY | Grahame |
| Corrupt councils are handing power to unelected iwi and hapu | Gavin |
| Advanced far too far | John |
| Luxon must go he is still woke as Jacinda | Tom |
| I fear for my grandchildren | Peter |
| Needs to be stopped as a matter of urgency otherwise it will be South Africa V2. In which tribal corruption and personal vreed are rampant. | Steve |
| It’s time for many people to wake up! | Peter |
| Well advanced with a gutless Government electing not to stop it immediately. Luxon’s polls are dropping due to his SOFT approach to anything contentious and these people should be stopped — ignore huies etc and just do the job. Thank God a lot of us elderly’s are the age we are as we would not want to grow up in NEW ZEALAND ANYMORE And we are sick of the intrusion and bastardisation of our English language to satisfy a gross minority. | Alan |
| On our way to the cave man life …every man for himself and take no prisoners….what a tragic end to New Zealand’s democracy. | Chris |
| Possibly irretrievably with the snouts well embedded in the trough. Worringly, the younger generations of “other” ethnicity are to woke to see it | Russ |
| Coalition afraid to do the right thing-the election will show our disproval | Bryan |
| To suit their purpose | Ken |
| This destruction of our democracy is happening at lightning speed, and we can put the blame squarely on the shoulders of the epidemic of woke insanity – a plague upon our nation which must be obliterated before there is nothing left to save. | Colin |
| Members of Parliament should be ashamed allowing these racist developments to flourish and continue. Immediate action is necessary to abolish this serious Maori “Take-over”. | Peter |
| National was elected to stop this and they have failed misewrably. It should have been a ‘first 100 days’ exercise. | Rod |
| The present Govt. needs to do much more in combating the Maori takeover in all departments. They failed on their election promises. | Chris |
| the only ,only thing that will stop this treachory ,terroriism is to takeout our gutless LUXON to start with most of his gutless senior ministers. no option | bill |
| its a disgrace that National have allowed this to continue. They are not honouring the coalition agreements with their partners. No wonder they are falling in the polls. | diana |
| if lUXON WANTS TO RETURN WITH A COALITION HE BETTER ACT SOON. mANY LABOUR VOTERS CHANGED HORSES BECAUSE TO THE MAORI BS THAT HAS BEEN SPREAD BY THE MEDIA AND STILL IS | cHRIS |
| Ship Maori out to sea. | Evans |
| an insidious attack on democracy. Once a committee has agreed a “recommendation” it’s an uphill struggle fora full Council meeting to reverse it (and only in the face of organised opposition) | Eric |
| It has advanced to the point where the possibility of a return to Democracy as we used to know it will be almost impossible! | Robin |
| With National only making minor changes to legislation it can be very easily and very quickly changed back by the next Labour led coalition. | Alan |
| Totaly dissolusioned at lack of response from National at 79 years of age and living in Kerikeri it is of grave concern | Robin |
| ENOUGH of the RACISM | Mike |
| AND IT IS NOT GOOD FOR NZ!!!!!! | TONY |
| It has been going on in the Background for years, now it very Public which shows its momentum is growing. | Peter |
| We are being taken for a ride. It is what the Government arent tellling us that is the worry | Graeme |
| what is wrong with this govt that it won’t deal with this crap I ask | Robert |
| Will be very difficult to reverse. | Graham |
| One person one vote | Ron |
| Enabled by weak politicians, woke Public Servants and greedy Iwi Activists. The World is finally waking up in Countries like the UK you see the rise of the populus Reform Party, Australia’s One Nation- European Countries standing firm on illegal immigrants. NZ First and ACT are the populus parties for NZ , MPs who roll up their sleeves and get things done, The National Party is like the Australian Liberals and is drifting to the centre Left , to afraid to tackle and make the tough stances relating to our Democratic countries existence., more focused on appeasing the activists and driving us to Tribal Takeover. | John |
| So disappointed that this government has failed to deliver on dismantling many of the former Labour government institutions. | Terry |
| The local council have them at each meeting though we voted no | Edwina |
| I cannot fathom why our current government have not honored their election pledge and killed this so called partnership/ tribal takeover in is tracks. The apathy is mind boggling | Al |
| Totally undemocratic and sneaky racism. It needs to be stopped by the present government who should be serving the majority of the population and NOT cowtowing to the Maoiri racist fringe. They need to get some guts. They are just a WOKE and gutless bunch of politicians . | Bruce |
| there is very little time before the election. The coilition needs to make sure that the laws the Councils are designing have no words that could be twisted to the advantage of the Maori takeover. | Trish |
| How Christopher Luxon can continue to ignore the anger in the community at his blocking every initiative to get rid of this appalling takeover of New Zealand by a few part Maori activists is beyond comprehension.After nearly three years he has done nothing he was voted in to do and lets ministers like Watts and Goldsmith have portfolios dragging the chain so things may not be done before the election , rather than giving them to competent people. I wonder why …he seems intent on selling the country down the river….or to India. | Gail |
| Moarification of this country is so far advanced that rectifying it will require substantial effort by the government | Gareth |
| An unfolding disaster that is unlikely to end well. | Bill |
| Unfortunately anyone thinking that voting for the party who effectively put us into this situation is going to get us out of it I believe is going to be disappointed. | John |
| Sadly so many New Zealanders trust their elected MPs and councillors to make decisions which are in the best interests of our country and communities. If they knew what is going on the left wing parties would be decimated. Keep up the good work NZCPR. | Ken |
| New Zealanders need to rise up and demand election promises to remove race based everything and restore democracy. The government are in fact servants of us all, not the other way round | Cecilie |
| Stop the tribal take over now. | Gerard |
| The craven National party have failed to honour pre election pledges Deserve to be electorally decimated | Geoff |
| This is a further advance toward the total control of the country, having now captured the Judiciary, Education system including University’s, DOC and strong influence in all Government departments. | Wayne |
| The coalition needs to act now before it’s too late. | Ron |
| the tribal takeover, aided and abetted by sycophant bureacracy and complacent govt | john |
| It will get a lot worse if labour is elected in the next election. New Zealand will be destroyed | Chris |
| Today, we have a cafe in rotorua which only accepts Maori spoken. What next? What’s happening to my beautiful country? We used to be the envy of the world. | Diana |
| Hate to say “I told you so” How are we ever going to get rid of the gravy train and its passengers????? | Erin |
| We can talk talk talk, but how do we force the government to stop it? | Peter |
| Virtually entrenched. Politicians of both major parties have destryed democracy. | Laurie |
| We the Democratic people in New Zealand must push back against this unlawful and racist takeover enabled by Labour and progressed by the current Government | Peter |
| The Minister of LG should be cracking the whip over breaches of their operating protocols and procedures | Dennis |
| Needs to be urgently addressed and reversed. | John |
| I am beginning to fear that there is no turning back. We only have spineless, scared politicians in charge | hans |
| Obvious in so many ways – and Iwi know Luzon is giving full support. In any case, given the progress since 2023 – driven by National, this must come to a head soon. | Mary |
| Racist idealogues embedded in government bureaucracy and in local government are destroying democracy. There is yet to be invented a word like apartheid where the colours are reversed. Perhaps maori will gift us one. | Peter |
| The Tribal Takeover is well advanced… How do we Know??The tribal take over, played a huge part, with THE ARDERN TAKEOVER, WITH THE COVID SCAMDEMIC, which started some years ago ,before the covid take down of the system,,,,,ARDERN GAVE HER MAORI GANG MATES MILLIONS, AS HER BROWN SHIRTS TO CARRY OUT HER AGENDA, SO AS TO ENFORCE HER EVIL AGENDA… WHO ARE STILL WALKING AROUND, AND STILL HAVE TO BE BROUGHT TO JUSTICE!! THEY WILL BE USED AGAIN, WHEN THE SAME AGENDA, WILL BE USED, WHEN NEEDED!! AGAIN…… KIWIS REALLY NEED TO WAKE UP!! | David |
| It astounds me that the candidates put forward by the various parties for election are so lacking in intellect that they are unable to read and understand the legislation they pass. Surely they know by now that any provision granting privileges to the favoured race will result in state sanctioned extortion, bribery and blackmail? | Alan |
| The long march through the institutions means the brainwashing will be hard to reverse. | Brian Damage |
| Well and truely advanced. Just look at northland. And our useless current govt seems to be letting it happen. Luxon wasting his time with anything else now tribal takeover is complete in the north and continuing over the rest of NZ. I hope Santana gold tell the black mailers to get stuffed and leave NZ. Extortion was against the law, oh except for maori it seems. What a bloody mess Labour and ardern have created. | Allan M |
| We were once a country of New Zealanders, now we are country of broken bits and pieces destined for the rubbish heap. We can thank National and Labour for the destruction of our democracy. | Sam |
| The tribal takeover is so far advanced in NZ now, it is impossible not to see it. That’s why I find it impossible to understand the reticence of National to do anything about it, Are they just cowards – or what??? | David |
| Our council is being taken over by radicals, and like the Whangarei District Council we voted to abolish the Maori seats in the referendum. But we are stuck with them for the next three years and that gives these activists plenty of time to inject their racial poison across all aspects of local government. It is an appalling situation. | Maureen |
| “Give them an inch and they will take a mile” – is appropriate for this situation! | Phil |
| What’s going on in local government is a nightmare and yet the Coalition is sitting on its hands. They are hopeless – yet, sadly, much better than the other lot! | Hugh |
| I would willingly vote for a party that pledges to “remove all race-based initiatives from legislation” as a bottom line. Please let me know if one appears! | Jason |