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  • Farmers Weekly: Division is the real economic threat

    If we are serious about the economy, building a better future, we need to own up, acknowledge and address division. Division is economically and socially corrosive. The battles include young vs old, homeowner vs those aspiring, haves vs have-nots, landlord vs renter, rural vs urban, Māori vs non-Māori, respect/disrespect for the law and business owners…

  • How to Brainwash a Country

    In New Zealand it’s the TPU (all their astro-turf-one-person-PR-pimping sock puppets)…

  • Dame Anne Salmond: How to split a society

    In forming the new Government, the National Party forged alliances with smaller, more extreme parties intent on amplifying their power, entering dangerous territory.  With its immoderate attacks on the media, te reo, women and the environment, New Zealand First plays upon ethnic, gender and rural-urban polarities to increase its influence far beyond its 6 percent…

  • National MPs who took reo Māori lessons hail its usefulness

    This is an objectively good thing. It’s sad that it’s been marred in the way that it has. Imagine how this would’ve been hailed if they hadn’t leant into red-neck policies around bonuses and naming of govt departments. It makes me both sad and optimistic. “I think that would make me [Luxon] a better prime…

  • Honour Te Tiriti o Waitangi

    In recent decades, we’ve seen a growing understanding of the importance of honouring Te Tiriti o Waitangi, including amongst tauiwi (non-Māori). Many of us have experienced the benefits of Māori leadership and changes which reflect Te Tiriti commitments to work together and share decision making on important issues. We value the development of respectful and…

  • Is it too much to not be a hypocrite?

    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/504994/christopher-luxon-s-reo-maori-lessons-paid-for-by-taxpayer

  • An ambitious vision for rewilding New Zealand

    Native forests cover about 29% of New Zealand’s landmass, but once extended across as much as 85% of the country. A new proposal to “recloak” Papatūānuku by restoring 2.1 million hectares to healthy indigenous forest over 10 years seeks to create an “enduring carbon sink” that boosts biodiversity and enhances landscape resilience at the same…

  • Actions by new government will make NZ fall behind as ‘world leader in indigenous rights’ – scholar

    I have two tests to determine how worldly a kiwi (normally business person is). If they do complain about “1” then I know they have never done anything substantive overseas and are parochial fools. If they do complain about “2” they have never noticed the esteem that Māori have gained in the rest of the…

  • Bene-bashing like it’s Australia or 1990

    It’s funny how the anti-nanny state crew are all for getting the state up in your face. Across the Tasman, the conservative Howard government invented electronic income management in 2007, with the original idea being to prevent Aboriginal First Nations Peoples from spending their money on booze, tobacco and pornography. Beneficiaries in certain parts of…

  • First Licence for Psilocybe (Magic Mushroom) Cultivation in NZ

    The granting of a licence to cultivate indigenous fungi containing psilocybin, the active compound found in psychedelic mushrooms, is the first of its kind in New Zealand and a major milestone in a Māori health science collaboration led by Rangiwaho Marae, based south of Gisborne. The licence was granted to Rua Bioscience, a biopharmaceutical business…