Category: Maori Issues
While the inefficiencies and cost blowouts of local government are a major concern for the Coalition – and rightly so given the huge impact it has on our economy and our lives – they must not lose sight of the fact that many parts of the country local government is now effectively being run by iwi for their own benefit.
Local government in New Zealand is facing significant challenges. After many years of entrenched policy positions councils now need to rapidly adapt and realign to the significant re-sets emanating from central government. All local councils are creatures of statutes and like it or not, central government and local councils must be inextricably intertwined.
Since one Parliament cannot bind another, National no longer needs to prop up a dangerous and highly destabilising law promoted by a Party that is now openly advancing anarchy. The fatally flawed Marine and Coastal Area Act should be repealed and the 2004 Foreshore and Seabed Act restored to provide certainty, security and to protect the public good...
This new law will be the most indescribable gift to Maori of an enormous part of the remaining public property and public wealth of this country. It will deprive the rest of us of any possibility of enjoying the immense economic opportunities which the foreshore and seabed affords and which, heaven knows, we so desperately need…
Looking at the wider picture, all over the world, liberal democracies are being threatened by authoritarian forces. We experienced it ourselves just five years ago, when almost every single one of our democratic rights and freedoms were stripped away without warning. It was into the democratic vacuum Jacinda Ardern created, that tribal rule was ushered in.
If a line-by-line review had been carried out, Coalition Ministers would have been shocked to discover Labour’s toxic He Puapua programmes are still operating. De-funding those including “Rautaki Maori” policies to deliver preferential hiring practices for Maori. would not only have helped the Coalition to deliver on their election pledge to “Stop He Puapua”, but it would also have saved millions of dollars to reduce spending and pay down debt.
While the education reforms now being introduced by the Coalition, to overhaul the curriculum and the law will improve standards and give Kiwi kids a better opportunity to build decent lives for themselves, it remains unacceptable that provisions are being left in the legislation to empower He Puapua and race-based rule.
New Zealand has one of the world's longest running democracies, but the Maori seats have been weaponised to destroy it. Will the Coalition accelerate the tribal takeover by introducing tikanga into Parliament, or will they honour their election pledge and reject it?
The Court’s role is to interpret and apply the law as Parliament has enacted it, not to substitute its own judgment for that of elected representatives. As the UK Supreme Court has shown, respect for democracy demands judicial discipline, not activism.
In the interest of national security, the country’s coastal marine area needs to be nationalised in the public interest by repealing the Marine and Coastal Area Act, cancelling the claims, and restoring the 2004 Foreshore and Seabed Act, so New Zealand’s coastline and Territorial Sea will be owned and controlled by the Crown on behalf of all New Zealanders.
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