Education has been described as a passport to the future – as endless generations of New Zealanders can testify. Its transformational powers have the ability to pivot students from lives of disadvantage to futures of opportunity and prosperity.
That’s no doubt what was in the mind of Nelson Mandela, when he said, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
But that’s also why extremists attempt to turn education into an indoctrination machine to radicalise children with their brand of social justice poison.
In New Zealand, education has been captured to deliver a range of ideological outcomes, including climate extremism, gender zealotry, and Treaty activism.
While some may argue it all started going wrong back in the 1980s under Labour’s “Tomorrow’s Schools” reforms, when schools became self-governing and vulnerable to capture, it was the introduction of the new New Zealand Curriculum by Helen Clark’s Labour Government in 2007, that escalated the decline.
Launching the initiative to replace our knowledge-rich curriculum with an experimental “outcomes-based” system, the Prime Minister said, “This curriculum represents a shift away from focusing on knowing facts and figures to knowing also how to use knowledge effectively and apply it outside the classroom.”
Strongly ideological, the new curriculum aimed to remove perceived elitism from the education system, by replacing the traditional emphasis on knowledge, with a child-centred approach that not only focussed on skills and competencies but changed teachers into ‘facilitators’ of learning with the freedom to develop their own curricula.
At the time, critics warned the new system, which had only been adopted by a handful of countries, would lead to a fall in academic standards. Most countries, including the US and Australia, abandoned the programme once the dire warnings began to materialise.
Replacing knowledge with skills, left students at risk of finishing school with a range of eclectic proficiencies, but without the basic knowledge to read, write or calculate properly.
This has contributed to the deteriorating state of New Zealand education: declining international test scores, falling levels of basic skills, increasing numbers of school dropouts, and excessive political influence.
The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), which assesses 15-year-old students in reading, mathematics, and science every three years, provides an objective means of assessing the achievement of New Zealand students compared to those in other countries. In 2000, the first year of the assessment, New Zealand ranked third in reading, third in maths, and sixth in science. By the latest tests in 2022, our rankings had fallen to the lowest ever – tenth in reading, eleventh in science and twenty-third in mathematics.
When it comes to measuring basic skills, achievement in level 1 of the NCEA produces a picture of decline: in 2000, the overall rate of success for all students was 87 percent, with Asian students ranking at the top with 92 percent, European students with 90 percent, Pacific students with 78 percent, and Maori students with 74 percent.
By 2024, the overall success rate had fallen 8 points to 79 percent, with Asian students down 3 to 89 percent, European students down 4 to 86 percent, Pacific students down 5 to 73 percent, and Maori students down 6 to 68 percent.
The statistics for students leaving school without transitioning into employment or further education are also grim. In 2000, around eight percent or 40,000 young people were not engaged in education or training, but by 2024, the number had increased to eleven percent or 60,000.
When it comes to political indoctrination, the outcomes-based approach to education left schools vulnerable to capture. As a result, they not only turned into conduits for progressives to push identity politics, but they also became central to the culture wars.
In the lead up to the introduction of the new curriculum in 2007, the Treaty of Waitangi had been sidelined. But as a result of intense lobbying by tribal leaders it was not only re-introduced but was elevated into a ‘guiding principle’.
Its influence was further extended through the Ardern Government’s new Education and Training Act 2020, which specified that Boards were responsible for implementing a radicalised agenda that focussed on Maori rights, Maori language, and Maori culture within the country’s early childhood education centres, primary and secondary schools, and tertiary institutions.
These changes misrepresented Matauranga or Maori ‘knowledge’ as science, Tikanga or Maori ‘custom’ as law, and they forced Te Ao Maori or a Maori world view to dominate the sector.
Once the 2020 election gave Labour the power to govern alone, their secret He Puapua agenda to replace democracy with tribal rule was fast-tracked. With progress in education deemed to be too slow, Letters of Expectation were sent by then Minister of Education, Chris Hipkins, to educational agencies demanding action:
“I am writing to convey the Government’s priorities for the education system, and my expectations for your role in achieving these. I expect the Board to honour and give effect to the Crown’s Te Tiriti responsibilities. This means bringing Te Tiriti to the forefront of the Education and Training Act.”
That opened the door for a radicalised coterie of influential separatists to embed their anarchist agenda into the minds of our children.
This has been achieved by replacing official references to the ‘Treaty of Waitangi’ in legislation with “Te Tiriti o Waitangi” – a corrupted misrepresentation of the original Maori version of the Treaty, which has transformed an agreement for nationhood into a weapon of subversion to deliver tribal rule.
Through an Orwellian sleight of hand, references in legislation to the historic ‘Treaty’ agreement that gave New Zealand Parliamentary Sovereignty, Property Rights, the Rule of Law, and Equal Rights, have been manipulated through ‘Te Tiriti’ provisions to enact He Puapua. Those ‘Te Tiriti’ clauses elevate Maori into a fake ‘partnership’ with the Crown, creating an effective ruling class, which gives Maori priority status and a right of veto in Government decision-making – as well as enabling the Maori language, culture, and World View to dominate.
Fortunately, the brilliant analysis of “Te Tiriti o Waitangi” written by Sir Apirana Ngata in 1922 enables us to understand the deception. He sets the record straight by clearly showing that the original Maori version of the Treaty established the Queen as our Sovereign, protected private property rights, and gave Maori the same rights and privileges under British law as every other New Zealander.
What is now so disturbing, is that even though the Coalition Government was elected on the promise of replacing race-based rights with equal rights, and stopping all work on He Puapua, they do not appear to be planning to remove those dangerous ‘Te Tiriti’ provisions from Labour’s 2020 law, through their replacement legislation, the Education and Training Amendment Bill (No 2).
That means that unless the public response through the Select Committee process – and through the direct lobbying of Coalition MPs – is so intense that they wake up and realise they must honour their election pledge, the education system will continue to endanger New Zealand by undermining our democracy and grooming our children for tribal rule.
At this stage, the Bill is still in front of Parliament, but once it reaches a Select Committee* and submissions are called, the public will need to get involved if there is to be any hope of freeing education from the grip of tribal leaders who are intent on destroying democracy from within.
*Please note that on the left-hand sidebar of the NZCPR homepage at www.nzcpr.com (opposite the weekly poll) all new Bills that are open for public submissions are listed. Once the Education and Training Amendment Bill (No 2) reaches a Select Committee, it will appear there, and all submission details will be available by clicking the link.
Public input is also being sought by the Government on their major curriculum reform programme, that aims to replace the disastrous 2007 outcomes-based approach to education, with a new knowledge rich curriculum for New Zealand.
This week’s NZCPR Guest Commentator is Auckland University’s Professor of Education Elizabeth Rata, who, as one of a group of 20 or so experts involved in the reform of the English curriculum, explains what’s going on:
“The 2007 New Zealand Curriculum allows teachers and schools to decide what to teach. In this localised curriculum there is no prescribed content, no nationwide standardisation nor effective quality control. The result is increased inequality. Students in schools committed to high quality academic subjects continue to achieve. Students in schools that offer little more than socio-cultural beliefs and practices are denied the education needed for full inclusion in modern society.
“The Minister of Education is determined to introduce a knowledge rich curriculum for all New Zealand students. It is a standardised curriculum which ensures that students across the country receive the same high-quality knowledge. That knowledge consists of academic subjects with content selected for its value and justified for its veracity. Furthermore, the content must be designed so that it is coherently organised and built progressively from the most basic to the more complex.”
While the changes being proposed will deliver a knowledge-rich English curriculum that focusses on language and literature, Professor Rata makes the point that the success of the curriculum revamp is not yet assured as those pushing decolonisation and Maori supremacy will do everything they can to undermine the reforms:
“The public is being consulted on the draft English curriculum. This is right and proper – it is not a curriculum for teachers alone, but for the nation. It is here, in the national discussion about the subject of English that I predict a simmering conflict will surface. Some, like me, regard school English as the study of language and literature in the English language. For others, English is the tool of the capitalist coloniser, intent on locking the colonised into a permanent state of subjugation. Their demands are for the decolonisation, then indigenisation, of the entire education system.”
We have, of course, experienced similar conflict over curriculum reforms before. Back in 2021, the Ardern Government, at the behest of tribal leaders, transformed history into an indoctrination tool for Maori sovereignty.
Describing that draft curriculum, historian and former Labour Minister Dr Michael Bassett did not hold back: “A finer assemblage of mumbo-jumbo would be hard to find. A careful reader examining the underlying intention behind it all will conclude it is to re-name the country Aotearoa, eventually dropping any mention of New Zealand, making Te Reo compulsory for everyone, and handing control of the country’s identity and intellectual life to the Maori Council.”
With changing the history curriculum to restore balance a Coalition commitment, we can expect controversy over that as well.
But back to English.
Professor Rata is urging as many New Zealanders as possible to engage in the reform process by sending in a submission on the Draft Education Curriculum by June 13 – full consultation details including links to curriculum documents can be found HERE.
With opponents of the curriculum changes likely to mobilise an army of submitters against the reforms, Professor Rata is encouraging everyone interested in education to submit in support – and, as a helpful guide and resource, she has made her own excellent submission available on her website HERE.
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.
The weaponised ‘Te Tiriti’ provisions in New Zealand legislation are dangerous and should be purged, starting with education.
All references to ‘Te Tiriti’ in the Education and Training Amendment Bill (No 2) and the 2020 Education and Training Act must be completely removed in order to strengthen democracy and protect future generations of New Zealanders from the catastrophic consequences of totalitarian tribal rule.
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THIS WEEK’S POLL ASKS:
*Would you like to see all references to ‘Te Tiriti’ removed from the Education and Training Amendment Bill (No 2) and the 2020 Education and Training Act?
*Poll comments are posted below.
*All NZCPR poll results can be seen in the Archive.
THIS WEEK’S POLL COMMENTS
| YES should never have started. THIS IS 2025 Not 1825 We are one country and time to grow up and get on with it with out the distractions from the minority who are trying to go forwards while looking backwoods. Grow UP and work for the good of NEW ZEALAND ?????????? | Rod |
| An elected government, in any democracy should represent a majority, of voting citizens.Racial or cultural aspects are not in anyway relevant! The division, of euro-maori, versus other racial groups, is therefor unatural, confrontational and divisive of people. T.O.W only binds the”CROWN”- NOT YOU! wake up! | David |
| Yes definitely, it is unnecessary. | Kate |
| Too old to sit back and listen to activists push minority false claims | Ken |
| Also the compulsory learning of the rubbish Maori language in education. My young grandson hates it. Years ago I heard John Tamihere say he pulled his children out of Maori immersion school – is it because it has stuffed up New Zealand? | Monica |
| A major expenditure on counter-brainwashing is required. The Labour Party brainwashing via Te Reo probably cost something like 2 billion dollars. It was well done and converted a huge part of the population and administration into proponents of Maori domination. | Percy |
| Yes – and from every other piece of legislation on which the Treaty has no bearing. | David |
| The people who wrote and agreed to the Treaty would be against the monster or Taniwha that the Treaty has now turned into. | Kent |
| Education is meant to teach people how to think and not indoctrinate them | Fee |
| Common sense must prevail. | James |
| An elected Govt. supposedly represents a majority of voting citizens, cultural and racial mix are not in any way relevant! The division of Euro-maori v ‘others’ is unatural and confrontational! TE TIRITI BINDS THE CROWN…… NOT YOU!! TE TIRITI IS OBSOLETE….IS NOT REVALENT!! | David |
| If not, we are educating for a dumbed down nation. | Allan |
| Yes it should never have started we are doomed. This is one country or it was when I grew up and we did not have the red witch running the country. Time to make all maori businesses pay TAX including the churches. Hoe does this work no tax to pay and hand out for more freebies???????????????????????? | jeff |
| Let’s get back to One Person One Vote. Voting based on ethnicity is definitely not the way forward | Norman |
| Not just Education, but all legislation, except where historical references are necessary | Mark |
| Totally wrong | Maxwell |
| Since when, was Tikanga, and the Treaty been about EDUCATION?always seemed like RACIAL INDOCTRINATION to me? | David |
| No place for this INCIDIOUS MYTHICAL STORYBOOK NONSENSE….. LETS VOTE FOR THE ‘PUBLIC BURNING’, SOONER THE BETTER, THIS IS INDOCTRINATION! | David |
| It is not the truth of history that children should be given. History is history, not re written every day to suit a maori belief. | Rod |
| Most definitely! We have gone much too far down the Racist road of ‘Te Tiriti’. | Valerie |
| yes remove them all, the indoctrination of our children must stop now. Many children are unhappy with life because of the traumer caused by all this division. | Nigel |
| I’m so tired of the treaty being shoved into every corner and crevice of life in NZ, especially as it is repeatedly reinterpreted to support the views of the activist minority. | Gary |
| Immediately | SHERYL |
| Yes, absolutely! and once the government has removed the racist tribal propaganda from our schools, they need to remove it from all other sectors as well – we don’t need this recist division. | Trevor |
| This is one of the reasons I voted for National. They promised to get rid of all this Maoti bias. They wont be getting my vote next election – Thats for sure. | Richard. |
| Why do we need it there. I am a Maori Voter. | Denis |
| ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL THAT THIS HAPPENS AS SOON AS IT POSSIBLY CAN! | Sylvia |
| so disappointed in the coalition, haven’t paid my National sub. | Sue |
| YES YES YES YES YES YES and every thing else. | Elizabeth |
| Everyone in NZ speaks English including all races of children – if it’s working don’t complicate the system | JOHN |
| Yes. no more defining people ie the population by race Remove withdraw all legislation that refers to race Luxon sitting on the fence isn’t Productive | Bruce |
| This issue is destroying NZ and needs to be addressed by way of a referendum Government should be standing tall and not bowing to the maori party – enough is enough | David |
| Please get rid of this part of our history in normal education, teach it as a separate entity, if the Kids want to learn it. | Sam |
| Ir’s a waste of time and a load of rubbish. Get rid of it all ! | Valerie |
| No question. | Caren |
| The world recognises English. not Maori. a retrograde step! | Steve |
| Over the many years of New Zealand being organised and under the rule of our legitimate Westminster style parliamentary system all seemed to workout well enough. This was under the original Treaty. Most New Zealander’s were all clear in what the treaty said was what the treaty meant. However the smug smarty (under) pants of our society have recently tried, with the force of strong aggression, to come up with new meanings that most of us can plainly see are nothing more than disillusioned fairy dust. Unfortunately the bellicose gene is still deeply embedded in the many of the proponents who are against our democratic system. This naturally produces the nonsense that we all have to put up with in today’s world. With its huge ongoing expensive burden to our nation, where such funding would be better aimed at more urgent and greater services that are pleaded for everyday by well meaning causes. But the money required is just not there because it is wasted elsewhere on fraudulent matters! It will take some strong legislation to put our nation back on the correct path. Unfortunately the current coalition does not have the courage to leave the trenches! So it will not happen anytime soon. | Garry. |
| Any reference to, will be weaponised and in time make NZ a divided 3rd world country | Glenn |
| The removal of ALL references to TE Tiriti must go ahead ,if we are to save our democracy. | Peter |
| Remove all references to Te Tiriti and Maori indocrinations from ALL education aspects. | Alan |
| Chiodren have enough to deal with in this fast pace age. To have all this angst between races brought into their learning does not make dir a calm peaceful place to learn. Concentrate on the basics of learning thatcwill take them into the big wide world instead of keeping them indoctrinated in an old age culture | Doreen |
| Absolutely teach our students not indoctrinate them | Denise |
| Until the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi are fully understood and agreed by New Zealanders in the 21st Century environment, it should not be referenced in any New Zealand legislation. | Martin |
| YES! Whatever way it’s written or referred to, absolutely no Treaty/Tiriti! | Frank |
| The aim of education should be to provide appropriate opportunities for our children and people to equip them for life in today’s society here and internationally. Treaty issues should be an optional extra, not a core requirement. | Laurence |
| What a blessing to New Zealand’s Globalist Agenda politicians the Maori culture is. With the need to dumb the population to the lowest denominator, what better than Maori, with their inability to invent any-thing at all, apart from sharp sticks and fancy pieces of stone that they used for killing each other. So here we are, with Maorification running wild, and both National & Labour determined to keep it that way. | A.G.R. |
| No to any forms of ideology in the education curriculum of New Zealand | Brian |
| The quicker the better and in other upcoming legislation as well | david |
| Yes please, it can’t happen soon enough, and I just pray that it actually will happen. | Pamela |
| But with the brown and white turds making mumbo jumbo grunts a so called language and new teachers can’t get a job teaching unless they pass this crap is a disgrace but with luxon being a believer of this bull shit and now the speaker of the house showing his colours as well there will be or i think it has already started a mass departure of decent young and old people that have common sense and can see this this country is now a very low numbered Island full of DANGEROUS BROWN RADICAL TURDS, get rid of the whole treaty crap once and for good otherwise labour and the turds will get in next year. | Richard |
| It is not a Treaty, its a treaty past its use-by-date | Magog |
| I would like to see our students concentrate on subjects which will help them get great jobs and be able to travel the world | dianne |
| Most definitely | Peter |
| We must not have radical Maori activist beliefs corrupting our education system or any other part of NZ society for that matter. | Stephen |
| Education was an introduced concept to moari who had no schools as such. Thus, the current idea of education is European. Therefore the treaty has no role. | Gavin |
| Makes sense. | Geoffrey |
| Any reference that would promote Maori separatism in Parliament or in any company or organisation should be removed & banned. | David |
| Even if they horis get to parliament they cant obey the rules thinking they’re special. | mike |
| Under the coalition agreement I understood that all Maori references were going to be removed from signage, and news reports. There is no sign of this changing and one can only assume that the Government are afraid of a back-lash and the frustration that this is causing could be the start of tribal war. Sound education is the key to good jobs and a happy society which is not the case now. | Marga |
| I was a teacher back in the 1980s and experienced the ‘Tomorrow’s Schools’ changes and the confusion that followed. English study was no longer important, the same with Mathematics. The standard of written English today including grammar as we read the newspaper is below what it was then. The official results of Mathematics calculation and understanding is reported as well below acceptability for a quarter of school leavers. Subjects with little relevance have taken the place of the three ‘R’s to the detriment of basic education. As I have stated before, The Treaty is dead, let’s just bury it. | CHRIS |
| As soon as possible. | Herbert |
| they do not belong in the education system | natalya |
| Reference to The Treaty serves absolutely no purpose other than to proliferate APARTHEID in NZ. | Geoffrey |
| defiantly | adrian |
| Why would any sensible person allow for the children of NZ become more confused through being bashed around by misguided teachers, than they are now.This nonsense must stop now.The facts show that Maori children are failing in education because of the lies that are being told to them.Confused and lied to children have a poor outcome in future years. | John |
| Absolutely- it’s a bit of history, name another that is still valid and relevant after 185 years | Ihaia |
| It is time to tear up the Treaty . | paul |
| The last 20 years has seen a rapid decline in learning. Get back to basics | Jim |
| Irrelevant in this context | Barrie |
| Time we got rid of this racist bullshit ! | Bruce |
| It is indoctrination. | Mike |
| This has gone too far under the Adern government and urgently needs to be rolled back as was the stated intention of the Coalition Government | Murray |
| Not needed to know by 90% of scholars. Keep it in the Maori only schools as nobody else cares for the concept | Hugh |
| Children go to school to learn maths, English, science and history. Learning to speak Maori is not a priority and should only be taught to those that want to learn the made up language and twisted Maori history. | Wayne |
| YES ASAP. Last year my grand daughter was telling me how wonderful and idylic maori people were before the English arrived. I PUT HER STRAIGHT. Prior to the English arriving they were savages, cannibals one of the most violent races in the world. The new settlers saved them from themselves. She was never taught any of this. All Maori myths and lies must be removed from our education system. | Kevin |
| One education system free from all racial bias. | Andrew |
| Thats for sure. Should never have been there in the first place. | Don |
| Should never been there in the first place. Shame on the Labour government for causing race relations to drop to such a low point. | Tom |
| This should have been done years ago but hopefully it will get the attention it deserves now. | Karin |
| It is an attempt to undermine NZ democracy with communism…..that is what ‘tribalism’ actually is. | Mark |
| 100% pernicious Maori propaganda is at an all time high as is the brainwashing of vulnerable youth and the general dumbing down of the poulation. STOP THIS INSIDIOUS DIVISIVE FOOLISHNESS NOW! | John |
| They have to be removed, don’t they. Luxon promised tp get rid of all laws ans statutes on the books that were giving favour to Maori. over other races. I’m still waiting for him to act and not pass the occassional law as a titbit to the voters. It seems he may be trying to commit political suicide by talking about introducing an inhertitance tax in any event. How many times have we been down this path? You spend your life being taxed on every little thing including your childrens bank accounts and now they want taxes from you on the way to the grave. .Shame on them. | Terry |
| Yes … and remove ALL the Maori crap that is being forced down our throats. | Des |
| it Has nothing to do with education and everything to do with indoctrination. | Mervyn |
| Ti tiriti o Waitangi as I understand it is the James Freeman embellished version of the original Treaty signed by only approximately 50 Chiefs in March / April of 1840 so I think any reference to it should be withdrawn | Doug |
| Indoctrination of our children must be stopped – all references to a false made up version of the Treaty must be removed from the education system. | Margaret |
| Yes, In our modern world if we are to progress as a Country this indoctrination must be removed. Our future Generations need this to occur | Noel |
| Rata was correct. Put it into action. | Neil |
| it is time to scrap the treaty. It serves no useful purpose if its meaning keeps being twisted .If there is no common agreement on what it means it is of no use. | Bruce |
| having arequitement to reference all education and training through the lens of the [re-invented] Treaty could open up too many areas of abuse….such as the abuses the real estate agents and architects are facing for instance. | Charles |
| There is a reason the treaty was left to rot, its job was done when it was signed, authority transferred completely to the crown via the Queen Victoria Letters Patent, issued soon after the treaty was signed! | Allan |
| Very definitely….YES! Remove it completely. More time to be spent actually educating children with the necessary educational tools to take them to the world. There is no need for all the other guff. | Heather |
| There is no relevance | Ivan |
| YES! YES! YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | Martin |
| We have to be united as the humanity which presently calls New Zealand home and acknowledge the rich heritage we have access to | cliff |
| absolutely, except as a historical event.That’s ancient history . This is the 20th century . It has no relevance to modern times or to the people of today. It was an agreement between the Crown and Maori . It saved Maori from slaughtering each other and from the likelihood of being invaded by other countries from Europe. That was then this is now. Reinterpretations of the document today are all focussed on continuous payments from Government to Maori under so called treaty settlements. Its the biggest money grab in history and its time that the Tiriti was terminated as all generations since 1840 have been paying Maori for some fabricated compensation. There needs to be a referendum to Stop just Stop the process and just get on with living. Maori have been well and truly compensated by being admitted to a modern lifestyle that allows them to live in a modern civilization without the severe hardships that they were subjected to in their very short life spans that they lived under their mystical gods | terrence |
| Stop the train we want to get off !! | john |
| I don’t want reference to the Treaty in any area of modern life | Patricia |
| Definitely must be removed | NOEL |
| Govt Needs to remove all this nonsense get back to basics that were before | leo |
| As quick as possible | bruce |
| They must act on this as soon as possible | ROB |
| Our children have so much to learn without being smothered in political poison. Let them weight up facts and choose their position for themselves. | Donald |
| I am continually disappointed when I try to talk to people about this and other political issues that they know nothing of what is going on and even worse, they don’t want know. | Robert |
| Political ideology has no place in our schools. A basic, politically neutral education is what is required. The brainwashing must go. | Alastair |
| We need to go back to the basic knowledge of reading , writing and arithmetic in early schooling and then followed up with True Science, History, Mathematics, languages across a wide world spectrum. | John |
| Oh Yes. In fact remove it from every t hing, then we will see NEW ZEALAND start to progress again. Get rid of this stone age thinking. | Peter |
| it is unacceptable that provisions are being left in the legislation to empower He Puapua and race-based rule. | Jenny |
| Please, for the sake of this and future generations. Enough is enough, get rid of it before it tears this country further apart | Janine |
| One country..one people. one set of laws. | Peter |
| Our children need an education to fit them for the modern World which means learning to read and write in English and to be competent in Maths. | Margaret |
| English is our main language and understood by everyone in New Zealand It is essential for every aspect of New Zealand Life. | Don |
| not that there is a hope in hell. Karl Marx identified that our education system was the way to defeat western democracies, and he is being proven correct | Mike |
| There is no place for references to the TOW in ANY legislation | Russ |
| not before time. | benjamin |
| This Treaty-Mania must be stopped at all costs. | Dayal |
| As soon as possible this is a no brainer for democracy to flourish in our country, the alternative is a deep fall back to another mystical time where Maori had some credence in a tribal setting before colonisation.. | jim |
| A qualified Yes. I think there is a place for the teaching of the CORRECT version of the Treaty, but not the new false radicalised version. | Sheila |
| Education needs to share facts and the alleged ‘treaty’ is a farce. It belongs in the museum along with facts about who actually lived in New Zealand for hundreds of years before maori even touched our shores. Get the facts out there and stop with the BS!!! | Sharron |
| It has no place in our education system | Steve |
| Definitely. | Lenice |
| Difficult , as it did actually happen in history. But then what is it’s historical “meaning”?? | John |
| Yes, and promptly | Peter |
| The government was given a mandate for change and this was one of the aspects under that mandate. | Miles |
| It might be too late? | Ken |
| I cannot understand why references to the treaty are being taught in English classes. All this Maori stuff will be the end of New Zealand. What used to be a harmonious relationship between the many different peoples is rapidly turning into feelings of intense ‘dislike’ for Maori. | Derek |
| AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE. | Peter |
| The article containing this poll is a misleading disgrace | Catherine |
| Resoundingly so. To accept what the current Govt and previous Govts have and are allowing to happen is going to make us a Third world country in no time. The falling achievement rates for students are testament to the failed experiment. | Neville |
| Most definitely. | Trevor |
| And from a lot of other things as well. It is so damaging | Gail |
| Education should NOT be allowed to become a Political Football. | Marie |
| Every reference to TeTiriti should be removed from education public departments and Parliament but i am afraid to say that will not happen while Luxon is Prime minister and National hold the majority. Bring on October 2026 | Ken |
| References to The Treaty reinforce a pro-Maori agenda. | Josie |
| I support the words of Elizabeth Rata. | RICHard |
| Absolutely, it should be removed. There is no reason to include the new radicalised interpretation of Te Tiriti in the education of our young people. If it was to be an honest assessment of the original meaning and intent of the Treaty, as explained by Sir Apirana Ngata, and written into the Act and the Bill, then, maybe a short explanation for children might be in order. | Mary |
| All references to the treaty in any legislation should be removed. | wayne |
| Yes, it has no place in the legislation | Greg |
| Absolutely Yes!! | Ron |
| No need for this indoctrination. The Treaty should be seen for what it is – a declaration the we are all equal and subjects of The Crown (currently sovereign leader of us all) | Dave |
| The Treaty in 1840 gave all of us equal rights and opportunities. In todays cosmopolitan world our children need. To be well versed in the English language and our relationships with all peoples. Our specific cultures exist within this framework | Anne |
| No reference should be given to Maori | Liz |
| Yes remove them and stop grooming our children | Fiona |
| And it should be done immediately. It has been so reinvented over the years that it now bears no resemblance to the original. It MUST go – IMMEDIAELY. We are going to become another Zimbabwe if the Treaty is not filed away. It bears nothing at all to do with today. We are all New Zealanders. | Helen |
| Absolutely these racially biased references should be removed. Unfortunately however, a weak National leadership will probably run with the status quo. Like so many other National governments in years gone by their preferences continue to focus on administraton of the policies of their predecessors, rather than taking the initiative and doing what their supporters want…This will be their downfall! | Rob |
| What a disaster this country was heading. Get rid of this Maorification rubbish. | Chris |
| Because the term refers to the Freeman version,written after February 6th, not a translation of the Maori lnguage Tiriti tha all the Chiefs of tribes/Hapu/Iwi signed in 1840. The original Tirit made us the one country of New Zealand, Maori and all others equal British ciizens under British Common Law. This latter is not set in stone, but has been adjusted over time as circumstances have encouraged or forced. The Treaty, from 1975/1985 interpretations is now dividing New Zealanfders and preferences part Maori over all others. | Rochelle |
| And from as many other Acts as possible. We need unity not special tretament. | Tony |
| Return to one person, one vote. And restore English as New Zealand’s main language… and restore English names for cities, towns and geographic features of all kinds. Most of all Restore New Zealand as the name of our country! | Peter |
| It is unbelievable how far all this activism has gone even into our schools and indoctrinating our children with the help of the hard left Labour and Green parties of course. It would seem we don’t have much of a chance anymore with all this endless activism and the foolish people who seem to know little to nothing about it and probably don’t really care. I’m hoping that at some point someone in Parliament will have the guts to do something about all of this but for now I’m really not holding my breath. | Paul |
| it has no relevance in today’s world | Jenny |
| This Te Tiriti has nothing to do with reading, writing & arithmetic!! | Ngaire |
| I am a second generation new Zealander. Who gives a hoot about MY culture? If we don’t sport a Moko and become a “white” maori we get no say in anything. | Glyn |
| YES, because it’s just a load of crap. | COLIN |
| As a family we have largely given up on NZ in favour of spending more time in Australia. | John |
| YES, it’s well pass time to stop all this Maori bull s–t once and for all, it’s also well pass time that this Government got started on doing this as this is why the pubic of this country voted for them, so please do what you were elected for. | COLIN |
| The children of New Zealand need a well-rounded education, not just the myopic view of the few. | Lucy |
| It is Urgent. A truly progressive move would be to end all official recognition of race or ethnicity in all legislation. With race/ethnicity no longer having official status, there could be:- NO more race-based seats or race-specific party in Parliament. NO more race-based wards in local government. NO more census questions about ethnicity. NO more co-governance, and NO more basis for claims of unending victimhood. NO Waitangi Tribunal ! | Doug |
| Firstly – thank you NZCPR and everyone involved – perhaps namely to you, Muriel – for loving New Zealand enough to keep fighting to make sure that its beauty is for all of our citizens. I see the problem with Te Tiriti as being immediately separative, and without doubt, rather than being pro- equality, is bent on portraying/insisting that the thoughts, actions ,beliefs, etc. of Maori and Maoridom are superior to those of all other New Zealanders. This is, of course, not anything else but nonsense. Why can it not simply be dispelled….?? | Heather |
| Te Tiriti will divide NZd’s | Edward |
| This MUST BE STOPPED New Zealanders wake up. | Jan |
| Please just do it | Michael |
| Another divisive and irrelevent inclusion | Dr Lastair |
| Absolutely, since indoctrination seems to be the only objective. Our children need to be educated in the way of the world, not in the way of the tribal activist. They need to be given the tools to allow them to realise their potential, to compete in the world, not dwell in the self-serving victimhood of race-based disinformation and indoctrination. | Rob |
| Yes, please! | Bill |
| Thought National and its Coalition , committed to getting rid of He Puapua, and racist legislations. | Julz |
| Removal is the only logical and responsible way to go. | bRUCe |
| Part of the history curriculum only | tony |
| We have to look Forward and not live in the Past, why are we pushing a language into our school curriculum that has no benefit and no one on this planet speaks, it’s rewriting the history of New Zealand to serve a proportion of the population. So over all this division and the rewriting of this country’s past, we need to grow up. | Colleen |
| By yesterday | Kevin |
| These single steps of infiltration collectively add up to total control. | Roger |
| we are losing english | No0el |
| The sooner the better | bill |
| Trying to take over everything. | Ann |
| As always “…Garbage in..Garbage out..” All education systems are failures, but the NZ one is all Stone Age. | Chris |
| 100 % | Henk |
| Definitely, and also anywhere else it is in. | Jackie |
| Time to get rid of all the BS | Laurie |
| This divisive racist nonsense need expungement from our education system. | Derek |
| Get back to national stability and reject tribal rule! | Carl |
| Absolutely – it is an insidious takeover of democracy | Bruce |
| Te Tiri is not education ! | Gene |
| Yes, a no brainer. | Andrew |
| The time has come to remove the teaching of animism from our classrooms. This has replaced the RE in schools that was around up until the ’80s. I object to teaching staff starting meetings with a karakia and this following on to every lesson for students in some cases | Veronica |
| YES!!!! The country is stuffed as it is by all this Maori nonsense. We are all supposed to be ONE PEOPLE. GOD DEFEND NEW ZEALAND. | Bruce |
| Its too confusing and unnecessary to have it remain!! | Murray |
| A knowledge rich curriculum for all students is required. Every student is taught the same and not indoctrinated with Maori race based thoughts. | Dennis |
| If the Maori want to remain ignorant of modern life, let them. they must forgo modern medicine, education, and all the other improvements, go back to their dirt floors, and primitive homes., but take the labour party and the rest of the ignorant with them. They won’t be a loss. | Merryl |
| The enemy within the enemy of the nation, radical maori aided by limp wristed spineless hollow MPs intent on Domination and tribal rule. All references to maori must be purged from all Govt departments as we are all New Zealanders , give them some space in a museum and move on. I am totally sick of them and their selfish arrogant divisive bullshit. The mainstream media criminals are major partners in this crime against the people of New Zealand and so we MUST dig deep and support those who stand up and fight ,we have to finance our own media campaign . Time is running out if we wont act now we will lose I don’t buy from shops, gas stations any business that promotes aotearoa , boycott where you can send a message to the local council & MP and find your voice . Our children / grand children must be protected. | Glyn J |
| It is plain to see that the inclusion had of Te Tiriti” caused a rapid decline in the New Zealand education system. REMOVE IT! | Chris |
| Yes Please ALL New Zealander NEED to be Educated in English and Maori if that is WHAT is NEEDED | Bill |
| Yes, absolutely. Where are the coalition lobbying promises to remove ALL legislation with reference to Maorification!! | Tony |
| As a country, we must get back to the true facts regarding the Treaty of Waitangi. | John |
| Abso bloody lutely | bill |
| Stop this Apatheid Training in our Education System. ‘Te Tiriti’ has NO place in any Program because it favours only one Ethnic Group and those Folk don’t and should not run our Country NEW ZEALAND !! | Geoff |
| yes please, if our children want to progress in the world they need to fully understand the english language . if parents want to teach Maori it is their right to do it themselves in there own time, not ‘school’ time | mark |
| It should be removed from all legislation. | Wayne |
| The current education system gives parents many reasons to home educate their children. | Mary |
| As an ex teacher I was very concerned where the direction was heading even then. | David |
| Any reference to The Treaty needs to be removed from all public institutions. Access to verified information about the treaty should be available to all who wish to avail themselves of it. Those who are part Maori are perfectly entitled to acquire knowledge of The Treaty. | Chris |
| Absolutely and would like to see these polls actually go somewhere and be effective. | Jan |
| He iwi Tahi tatou. We are one people. | Malcolm |
| must happen.. | norman |
| Causing so much damage to NEW ZEALAND by indoctrination in the schools. | sandra |
| Enough. | Mark |
| Racism MUST stop | Mike |
| It’s useless | david |
| English is the most universally used language globally – Te Tiriti less than 0.1% | David |
| If the coalition fails to act on this basic correction to remove indoctrination from our education and all institutions, we must assume they are in favor of apartheid and social polarization continuing. National is the culprit however both NZ first and ACT are also failing to insist on REAL change. NZ has a world of pain to go as we descend further down into world rankings. | Sam |
| The Treaty is a document which establishes a relationshionship between the various tribes and the Crown.. It brought Christianity and laws to the country, to the betterment of all . | Barry |
| Obviously !!!! The maori mafia is intent on dividing our beautiful New Zealand on stonage misguided greed based bullshit by a a group of half caste morons. | Ray |
| 100%. ALL references to the treaty in any legislation must be deleted | Gareth |
| Has no relevance at all to an English course. | Steve |
| Stop misinterpreting a historic document for political gain by activists. Let’s move forward to equality for all New Zealanders in the 21st Century. | Peter |
| Yes, it is a concept that cannot be defined, therefore shouldn’t be in legislation. | Lyn |
| Well overdue. Should never have been there in the first place. | Grerg |
| What educational impact does Te Tiriti have?? | mike |
| What good is it in this modern world ok for 1350 but today we march in time to a different drum beat | Warren |
| Time to stop the indoctrination. | Graham |
| And all legislation. | The Answer is always 6 |
| It is unfathomable to remain there. | Ian |
| To continue down the current road will do nothing to improve the education of our young people. | Ian |
| YES, YES, YES IMEDIATELY AND FROM EVERYTHING ELSE. Why is our media not informing NZrs of this ? Thats right they are Labours and maori radicals lap dogs. Defund the left leaning media now. 2026 is to far away to defund these scumbags. They are more interested in knocking our coalition on petty shit. Their treatment of our current govt is outragious, despicable and nasty. Education first, not tribal myths and lies. | Allan |
| Too dangerous to even contemplate. There shouldn’t be any provision for race-based rule. I, for one, Have no desire to be educated in someone elses ethnicity or beliefs and dislike the thought of any of my family having to accept being taught anything that will distaut their views. | Josephine |
| Absolutely | Laura |
| Keep religion out of education. That includes Maoritanga | David |
| The treaty is redundant as there are no maoris left only mongrels | chris |
| Education should be forward looking and not backwards | wilf |
| But some Maori history we need to know about | Gordon |
| I attended school prior to 1970 and what is abundantly clear is that Maori history and culture in education has been subsequently captured & hijacked by radical maori activists wanting to introduce Tribal rule and an apartheid system. Te Tiriti has no place in education and training in NZ ever! | Greg |
| Hell yes | Joseph |
| For all the reasons you have laid out. | Brenda |
| The treaty has turned into a ghastly weapon of destruction by Marxist tribal thugs. Not only should all references be removed but ideally that grotty scrap of paper called the treaty should flushed away. It’s being used to cement NZ as Third World failure. | John |
| There is one law for all people. | Ivan |
| Activists, radicals, and totalitarian regimes have always recognised youth as a special audience. Confine ideological concepts and debate to lessons on history, this has no place in the core subjects necessary to prepare children for the challenges and expectations they will confront in their future adult world. We have sacrificed literacy and numeracy, in particular, for a taylored (for New Zealand) divisionist CRT doctrine and pseudoscience. | Mark |
| Please, and thank you! | Michael |
| Make it an available option by all means but as soon as you start ramming it down people’s throats in a compulsory fashion, you create ill-feeling, dissent, and inevitably apartheid-style division. Wake up people! | Logan |
| Theses radical untruths about our history must not be pushed onto anyone let alone vulnerable children. | Peter |
| Education should be focused on achieving actual skills and learning that is going to ensure you are able to get a real job | LesW |
| Yes, as of now. No act or legislation should be race based, it is separist in its intent and a pathway to he puapua | gale |
| I would like to see all such references to the Treaty removed from legislation | Terry |
| It’s important that no one-sided view of any topic should be presented. | Ross |
| YES, YES, YES. | Ian |
| It allows for a derived version of history to be told | Bryan |
| Absolutely!!! This pointless stuff is destroying education ( and our society) I have the suspicion that all this is intended to dumb down our kids and use them a political cannon fodder in all sorts of schemes. | Michael |
| The sooner we New Zealanders wake up to what this means, the better. Forget any possibility of race based rule. | Ian |
| FTM! | Peter |
| This is frightening indoctrination, needs to stop now | Brenda |
| Now and what about English name first | Wiremu |
| That’s what the coalition agreements promised and must be delivered. | Kerry |
| The same rights and privileges for everyone. | Gavin |
| including the treaty would be placing emphasis on maori over others anfd is not acceptable in any way!!!! | ARTHUR |
| But of course! I want children to learn facts not some mumbo jumbo about taniwhas and mountains and rivers who are people. You are correct saying education is the passport to a better future,something maoris have not yet grasped. | Peter |
| The drive for division and control needs to be stopped before it is too late and I see this as the one of the first steps on that path. | Jan |
| Definitely | Geoffrery |
| A decision as to the Parliamentary made Law as to the democratic interpretation of the Treatyis the only bases to be part of the Education curriculum. Also Those so called Maori who have less than 50% Maori genetics cannot claim colonisation impacts on their lives when the majority of their genes has been driven by other cultures genes | Stan |
| YES, and then there could be some clear open discussion in a common language clearly understood by all GENUINE New Zealanders. | Stuart |
| Maori myths and legends have no place in English. | elaine |
| It should be removed from all legislation | Kim |
| Sooner the better | Ian |
| NZ Education is now a total MESS.. | Gill |
| Education should be based on reading, writing, mathematics, and science (the traditional view based on empirical knowledge) | Peter |
| The fall in education standards shows everyday in the mutilation of the language with the result that meaning is no longer clear and open to misinterpretation. | Paloma |
| Yes, simply because it has been weaponised by radicals. | Barry |
| once again an idological solution that negativley impacts real world outcomes. | Jaosn |
| It’s ridiculous that a document written nearly two hundred years ago is still oppressing us. Even if it had legal standing at the time, how can it still bind people who had nothing to do with it? Lysander Spooner’s argument regarding the US Constitution definitely apply here. | Andrew |
| The current teaching in schools is incorrect. Even SJ articles have been hi-jacked by extremists. Further indoctrination should be stopped. ToW has no place in education. | Carol |
| Yes, enough is enough. | David |
| All brainwashing maorification of New Zealand forced on school children must stop. English heritage, culture and values need to be foremost in education. New Zealand is an English speaking country with a majority of people born here as descendants of British immigrants. We should not be forced to become Maori. | Koreen |
| No propaganda! English and Maths are needed so young people can research, form opinions and debate them. Basic reading, writing, arithmetic are essential | Penina |
| It beggars belief that the coalition is considering leaving such references in this legislation. It is a pathetic dereliction – what was the point of the coalition agreements if National is ignoring them? | Doug |
| Anything like this in our system confuses everyone as I believe if they keep letting separist groups to intigrate into education or any other NZ systems there will eventually be trouble we cant control | Barbara |
| Elizabeth Rata has said it all perfectly! | Susan |
| Absolutely. I’d like to see them removed from ALL legislation! | Don |
| Nothing to do with education | Mike |
| References to this invented ‘Te Tiriti’ should be removed from everything! It doesn’t actually, historically, exist. | Lee |
| Honour the Treaty to serve ALL NZers. To claim this will remove race from education is to ignore the inherent racial bias towards English/Western/White culture embedded in curriculum and pedagogy. The only fair way to govern for all NZers is inclusion | TL |
| We must stop this weaponised rasism creeping in. We are one people. | Errol |
| Education must be promoting truths not fantasies. | Graeme |
| There are too many lies and half truths and outright deceptions being made in the name of the Treaty. Time it was consigned to the dustbin of history and we moved on as a modern democratic nation with ALL citizens equal before the law. | Roger |
| education should primarily be about preparing children for life in the real world | Philip |
| For the reasons set out in your column | Hugh |
| All such references should be removed from all legislation | Gareth |
| It should be freedom of choice not indoctrination. | Gayle |
| I have extended family who have moved to Australia, the school aged children arenow excelling in a knowledge based educational system, I think this is a huge driving factor in the continued loss of our best citizens across the Tasman. | Alec |
| Let’s learn to enjoy reading & writing | DOUGLAS |
| We are one people with out division. | Mick |
| The treaty is part of our history like it or not. | cliff |
| It’s a waste of time kids need to learn things that will help them in the big world | Mark |
| Irrelevant | Peter |
| Needs to happen if New Zealand is ever to stop this continual fall in education standards and outcomes for students. | Chris |
| yes how is that going to help our children moving forward in to the world | Barry |
| Absolutely. I am emailing all my past teachers your article. | Ann |
| Racist!! What else can you call it? We are one People. | John |
| As far as decolonisation – start with rugby, all NZers who claim Maori ethnicity cannot have a professional contract as player, coach or administrator, How many would claim ethnicity then? What would happen to the chiefs!! | Mike |
| Not just from this legislation, all references should be removed from ALL legislation. | Rod |
| Will this Maori appeasement nonsense ever end? | Mike |
| Yes its indoctoination of our chilferen and is putting one race first. At present with our childeren failing at an early age the Basics for education (reading writing maths) something needs to be done. | carl |
| Definitely. Te Tiriti should be scrapped altogether. Under Labors lunatic education policies, our young have been dumbed down and then brainwashed with racist and perverted bullshit eg LGBTQ??? rubbish. God help NZ if these let wing loonies get into power again. | Andrew |
| Unless we want to brainwash another legion of young people about the myth the Waitangi tribunal created with their fabrication around “Te Tiriti” we need to stop this. Also the National party should note that Luxon’s lack of support for the referendum & his tacit support for racist actions such as this will see them destroyed as a party at the next election, the same fate befell the Conservatives that talked the talk, then sat on their hands whilst England burnt, exactly like Luxon. | John |
| Education was introduced to Maori since they did not have their own. What historical contribution could they make to Mathematics and written Language when they didn’t have any? | Martin |
| I have no faith in this government. They will still be indoctrinating and abusing children. | Leonie |
| Lets’ have a PUBLIC BURNING, of this Treasonous Document… a PUBLIC BURNING, would end this INCIDIOUS VIRUS SCRAP OF ‘STORY-BOOK NONSENSE.. ONCE AND FOR ALL!! | David |
| Absolutely. And 90% of the so-called Maori language being used now is entirely made up. | Jaedra |
| Plus a complete overhaul of the racially biased HISTORY curriculum that is being force-fed to our children. | Paul |
| Meaningless | Graham |
| Absolutely. | Simon |
| We are all one people and to make our country great again we need to look forward and leave our history in the past where it belongs. | Marlene |
| Democracy rules !! No race based policies please ? | Andrew |
| Teach children rather than indoctrinate. | Russell |
| It is made up on the run, and has absolutely no place in new Zealand. Maori ARE NOT INDIGENOUS TO NEW ZEALAND…but to PACIFICA…..They all are Immigrants, and came in on boats, …as they brag about it continuously. Totally laughable the LIEs they all tell. | helen |
| eliminate racial massaging | Giles |
| The Treaty should not be referenced as anything but, the treaty. The treaty has no place in education other than as a topic for history. Even then, only a scant mention is justified. | Peter |
| It’s an all but irrelevant nonsense. | jim |
| Te Tiriti compliance in schools has created a rod for teachers backs. Inappropriate tikanga and kawa are being imposed on subject areas where there is no need. | Simon |
| This government promised that this would happen has it NO and why not? Not one of the coalition has the balls to stand up and say ENOUGH | Peter |
| All titiri is doing is causing disruptions and division to the country , and maori needs removing as a national language as there is to much of maori being used as every second word in a sentance which is confusing | colin |
| Remove idealogy indocrination from education and replace it with equipping students with career, self esteam and “i can do it and make NZ great” skills | Raymond |
| ABSOLUTELY ! | Mike |
| Only NZ legislation specifically addressing historical land related claims need mention the Treaty of Waitangi. Use of “Te Tiriti” almost anywhere any other than Maori language versions of communications is simply decolonisation flag waving. | Ron |
| Yes, and from all other legislation as well. The coalition were elected on the promise of removing race based preference. They need to do more to stop thiis ROT. | Neil |
| Stop using our children in culture wars with indoctrination of untruths. This is corrupt | DIANE |
| Iet us improve basic educational give a good grounding .let N.Z. lead the world again in education. | Steve |
| Take it back to how it was meant to be, that we are all the same and have equal say. | Deb |
| And preferably, yesterday or sooner. Completely and totally not wanted. | Robyn |
| The coalition had better sort it out quickly . | Harvey |
| As stated we have become brain washed with Maoridom and untruths. Time it was hammered home THAT MAORI WERE NOT the first people in NZ and therefore have no claim whatsoever on anything. STAND STRONG everyone to stop the madness | Noel |
| Agendas beyond basic factual education have no place in our Education System at all until at least tertiary level. | Andrew |
| The nonsense propogated by ‘Te Tiriti’ by ‘uneducated’ clods in government needs to stop. Our children need a proper education based on the true history of this country and not the version being pushed into schools presently, which elevates Maori well beyond their station in history. You cannot teach fabricated fluffed up fantasy that seeks to diminsh the role colonisation played in lifting the maori race from the stone age into the 20th century. | John |
| Maori should be an elective. | Evans |
| Absolutely!! | Vic |
| This mismatch of biased Maori history being pushed in schools is tainting the education of our young people. It all started with that useless ex PM Ardern, the best thing she ever did eas pi** off out of NZ. Just look at the antics of that Maori mob in our parliament. Brownlee for one should put a stop to their antics. These racist bunch are vausing mayhem, and they are getting away with it. This is what is building this te tiriti BS up. Kill it off now, before we end up with civil war. | Peter |
| The division is growing. | Helen |
| The push of Te Tiriti is tantamount to treason. The 1986 Constitution Act which I think, is supposed to strengthen New Zealand, is being undermined by a document that in itself had been, (I think) surpassed by the 1852 Constitution Act. Imposing Te Tiriti, making learning Te Reo compulsory, is fascism. The language, like all Maori culture is emblematic at best and useless otherwise. It fails to address those New Zealanders who are numerically on par with Maori and seeks to both impose and recruit in a culture war against Ngati Pakeha. All new Zealanders should have equality of opportunity and mechanisms are in place to resolve these issues. These mechanisms undermine the subversive Maori threat. This is tantamount to a third Maori war. Support to undermine New Zealand in Parliament and socially is aiding treason. Adopting Maori names and words to replace New Zealand English is at best, putting on ‘brown face’ to appease Maori aggression, which it fails to do. It merely empowers and emboldens the militancy. It’s not just imposition – the street level threats and abuse by Maori of passersby just for being ‘Pakeha’ shows the indoctrination of Maori as well as Ngati Pakeha into undermining this country. NZ also needs a government who is not so easily led but can see they are being patronised but most assuredly not respected. As the US flag is portrayed upside down to indicate a national crisis NZ should invert or also portray the flag upside down. | Lawrence |
| The Treaty is part of New Zealand history (a very important part) – and should be discussed only as such. | AndyE |
| Tribal rule would be as bad as loosing World War Two | Michael |
| Te Teriti is recent fabrication by radical Maori to assume the ultimate control of New Zealand. This is creating increasing unrest amongst the majority of New Zealanders and cannot be allowed to continue. | Wayne |
| Definately otherwise we end up with the ridiculous situation they have in nursing where they encourage the immersion students to write their assessments in te reo but have few tutors that can mark them .Crazy Let’s get kids proficient in a meaningful language first and if they then want to learn te reo go for it . | Greg |
| Why waste time on the Maori language, it isn’t of much use unless you wish to spend your time with your nose in the public trough. | Hugh |
| The Treaty of Waitangi is a historical document that has little place in modern New Zealand. All references to this document in new and earlier legislation should be removed as soon as practical | John |
| Definately | Barbara |
| Most definately The English language is world wide and essential where Maori is not and if people travel English is reckonised | Barbara |
| Absolutely. The prime truth is Maori began breeching the treaty the minute it was signed. They continue to do so today at an ever rediculous pace and are allowed to do so. Our woke weak politicians have continuously caved into ludicrous Maori activists demands all to the detriment to all New Zealanders futures. | Richard |
| Of course. That’s what we elected you lot to achieve! | Mark |
| Yes of course plus from all legislation. One Country, One name, One flag, One people. | COOKIE |
| The Treaty is NOT a “founding document”. This document has no relevance in todays world, other than in that revisionist fantasy world a small minority of tribalists wish to create. There is no future for any country which is led back to the stone age. | charles |
| Absolutely! This nonsense has no place in schools. Our children have limited time to prepare themselves for the future. Getting through a well thought out extensive curriculem leaves little time for a subject that will be of little use to the student. Students should be being prepared to make their way not just in New Zealand but if they want internationally. It is important they receive true facts, in all subjects. Their English language must not be mixed up with Maori words making their English unintelligible to non New Zealanders. English is an international language and fluent, correct English is required for many jobs. Remove all Maori from school curriculums. Those who wish to learn the langusge can do so in their own time. As others learn their own language ,usually at home. | Gail |
| I am simply appalled at the Govt lack of progress on this serious matter. The failure to address this tribalism nonsense is one of the reasons I am considering leaving NZ. | Basil |
| has no place in these places | Chris |
| A no brainer | Anthony |
| Not only education, but ALL Govt. run agencies and departments. I do not support Ethno State ideology, apartheid or decolonisation. | Peter |
| Let removal from education be a first move in removing ALL references to fake Ideology and fake history altogether. Disband the ERO and let Parliament select a Parliamentary committee to approve all curricular for all students including tertiary and let compulsory native ideology be ABOLISHED. | Richard |
| The weaponised Te Tiriti provisions in New Zealand legislation are dangerous and should be purged. In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way. We must not look to government to solve our problems. Government is the problem. Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. | neil |
| All things Maori being stuffed down our throats should be deposited in the place where these belong – the dunny. | Gordon |
| Sure would | Leon |
| Essential for educational excellence. – not voodoo lore. | mary |
| Yes, but all references to the Treaty should be removed from ALL legislation. Taking it out of education law is only a first step. | David |
| I find it appalling to read how Labour sold out the country to activists wanting to subvert democracy and replace it with tribal totalitarianism. But how is it that so few people understand what’s going on? | Bryan |
| Erica Stanford and her team are making great progress considering the hostile environment in which they are working. But they need to do more to ensure they sweep away all opportunities for a cultural takeover. Our kids are too important not to do a thorough job. | Shona |
| What’s wrong with the Coalition – are they really so gutless that they won’t do the right thing because of fear of a pushback from iwi, or are they genuinely ignorant about what’s really going on??? | Paul |
| Why aren’t the media informing us about all of this? Oh, I forgot, funding from the Public Interest Journalism fund that turned legacy media into tribal lapdogs, continues on until 2026! In their wisdom the Coalition didn’t axe it. How dumb is that! | Tom |