Co Governance is in my opinion just another way of saying race based tribal rule!

 

Race-based politics in New Zealand have to stop. It has become more obvious as time has gone past and the media have finally started to do what is expected from them (i.e. investigative reporting) and published the results of some of the investigations into the awarding of contracts to the family of Minister of Local

 

Government Nanaia Mahuta, that the published information seems to have identified conflicts of interest involved in some of the decisions to award these contracts to her family members.

 

We have over the years seen many overseas stories reported in the media of corrupt tribal leaders living in palaces with taps of gold while ‘their people’ live in slums demonstrating the failures of governance by tribalism.

 

It seems in many of these stories that the real aim of the politicians was to funnel as much wealth as possible to one’s family, tribe, or group with little regard for the public good. Instead of going into business and engaging in commerce, people under these tribal based systems come to rely on patronage and payback as a means of advancing. Instead of unifying the country to move forward on solving problems, it divides the country.”

 

Since the 2020 general election in which the Labour party was put into power with a simple majority, New Zealand has found that Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and her Labour government have – under the guise of implementing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples – started the process of introducing tribal rule into our country.

 

The Prime Minister not only kept this radical agenda secret from her Deputy Prime Minister, New Zealand First Leader Winston Peters, throughout the whole of the last year of their coalition government, but also from the public during the 2020 election campaign. Her intentions were not revealed until after she gained the power to govern alone.

 

The path to tribal rule started with the public being blanketed with Maori language and culture, State employees being forced to undergo Treaty “re-training” with all of these requirements being justified by a so-called partnership agreement contained in the Treaty of Waitangi.

 

There is no partnership agreement mentioned in the Treaty documents and this has been acknowledged many times in the past by respected New Zealanders both Maori and Pakeha alike.

 

As a part of the support packages for the Covid pandemic the government set up what was called the “Public Interest Journalism Fund” with an initial funding of $55 million. All of the media outlets that wished to apply for funding through this fund were required to promote the government’s Treaty propaganda in relation to this so-called partnership requirement.

 

Since the election in 2020 we have seen our Prime Minister and her government pushing to effectively privatise – under the banner of ‘co-governance’ – essential services, including health care and water services. Control of these services is being delegated to the tribal elite who run multi-million-dollar business development corporations.

 

Dr. Bryce Edwards a politics lecturer at Victoria University and director of Critical Politics, a project focused on researching New Zealand politics and society has said; “The co-governance model is a form of privatisation. The new companies will be half controlled by private organisations – iwi, which are increasingly highly corporate in their business operations.”

 

Auckland University’s Professor Elizabeth Rata was reported in an article in The Australian saying: “New Zealand’s constitution is currently undergoing a major heart and lung transplant via co-governance arrangements between Maori corporate tribes and the government. It is beyond belief that one of the modern world’s first democracies — founded in the fledgling 1852 Constitution Act — is descending into ethno-nationalism but the Labour Government is determined to embed racialised policies across a swathe of the nation’s laws and institutions.”

 

Professor Rata described those pushing this tribal takeover as “radical intellectuals of the corporate tribes”, ably assisted by “social justice warriors armed with an unassailable moral righteousness”.

 

Those ‘social justice warriors’ in our universities, government agencies, and the media are spreading the disinformation that underpins Jacinda Ardern’s tribal rule agenda – namely that the authority for 50:50 co-governance comes from a Treaty ‘partnership’ between Maori and the Crown. They allege this was affirmed by the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Robin Cooke in the 1987 State-owned Enterprises case between the Maori Council and the Attorney General.

 

Retired Judge and Law Lecturer Anthony Willy examined the case, and, found that the ‘partnership’ claim is a gross fabrication. There is no partnership requirement and this fabricated claim of such is being used deceptively to persuade New Zealanders to accept tribal control:

 

It is beyond question that nothing in that case suggests that the Treaty in any way creates a partnership between Maori and The Crown or brings into question the legitimacy of our democracy. To argue the contrary on the basis of this court case is either ignorant or willfully dishonest.”

 

By using the Treaty ‘partnership’ deception to justify giving control of essential services to the Maori elite, Jacinda Ardern is deliberately robbing New Zealanders of crucial democratic safeguards, placing them instead at the mercy of unelected and unaccountable iwi business leaders working in their own best interests, not in the public good.

 

The reality is that once co-governance is put in place, the opportunities for tribal enrichment will be endless, with contracts, fees, and other mechanisms able to be used to secure taxpayer funding – exposing the country to the problems that plague all tribal societies including corruption and nepotism.

 

Are we going to watch this become the future for New Zealand?