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NEW ZEALAND’S DEMOCRACY, TE TIRITI AND THE MARINE AND COASTAL AREA ACT
Peter Winsley: “New Zealand is a democracy that is being challenged by race and tribal-based activism. A democracy implies universal suffrage, one person/one vote, votes being of equal value, the rule of law, and an open and educated society with freedom of speech.”
MICHAEL BASSETT: MAORI PUSH FOR PARALLEL GOVERNMENT STRUCTURES
“If you think there is a move afoot by the radical Maori fringe of New Zealand society to create a parallel system of government to the one that we elect at our triennial elections, you aren’t wrong”.
NZCPR NEWSLETTER: UNWINDING LABOUR'S AGENDA
Dr Muriel Newman says that the fight for freedom in New Zealand has now reached a critical juncture. After six years of Labour’s increasingly authoritarian restrictions on our freedoms and democratic rights, unwinding their agenda will be a major challenge for the new Government.
SENIOR KING’S COUNSEL FILES COMPLAINT ABOUT COMPULSORY TIKANGA MĀORI STUDIES FOR LAW STUDENTS
Gary Judd KC writes: “Tikanga regulations are symptomatic of a dangerous trend which has emerged within some sectors of New Zealand society where those with the power to do so seek to impose the beliefs and values of one section of society upon the community as a whole. They do so in this instance by pretending that tikanga is law and therefore it is fitting to compel law students to learn about it”.
MIKE BUTLER: MAORI WARDS BASIC FACTS
“Filling in the gaps because recent commentary promoting Maori wards mostly neglects to give basic facts, context, or background”.
MIKE BUTLER: TAURANGA WANTS FAIRNESS ON MAORI WARD
“Prime Minister Christopher Luxon, ACT Party leader David Seymour, and New Zealand First Leader Winston Peters need to know that 6000 voters in Tauranga are waiting to be treated fairly as the coalition government professes to implement its Maori ward policy.”
COASTAL COURT ACTION FLIES UNDER THE RADAR
Graham Adams, investigative journalist: “Most of NZ’s coastline may end up under iwi control [under the Marine & Coastal Area Act]”