By and large, the Australian legacy media are almost wholly ignorant of New Zealand politics. That ignorance makes them natural Jacinda Ardern fans. Literally all they know about the NZ PM is that she had a baby, hugs people and talks about “kindness” a lot. Even the most basic details of hot-button issues like Three Waters or co-governance are a darker mystery to them than Clarke Gayford’s current whereabouts.
But The Australian at least is finally starting to look under the hood of the two issues — and is finding a rotten, dangerous mess.
As they point out, “Three Waters” refers to drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater. In other words, the basic stuff of local councils. But the Ardern government wants to change all that.
Instead, it wants to transfer water assets to four regional bodies. Nominally, councils would remain the owners of the waterworks and pipes. Practically, however, they would have no say over their management.
To camouflage this, councils will join with local Maori communities. Together, they will appoint a regional body which will appoint a selection panel which will appoint the water entity board.
If that sounds confusing and clumsy, well on the surface it is — a typical Ardern policy clusterfuck. But it’s what’s hiding in plain sight in the policy that is getting so many New Zealanders antsy.
It is not immediately obvious how the proposed structure is supposed to save money and create more jobs in water management.
But none of the Government’s economic goals justify handing over 50 per cent of the top governance influence to the leaders of local Maori tribes […]
It is a government delivering one agenda (co-governance) under the pretence of another (water management). And it is the government’s opponents rejecting the hidden agenda (ethnic segregation) while attacking the visible one (seizing council assets).
The Australian
The last is where that particular analysis goes awry. The government’s opponents are rejecting both. Because they are well onto the hidden agenda of racial segregation.
New Zealanders from all sides of the political spectrum have been horrified to find Jacinda Ardern – under the guise of implementing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples – is forcing tribal rule onto our country, with virtually no openness nor transparency.
The path to tribal rule started with the public being blanketed with Maori language and culture, state employees being forced to undergo Treaty “retraining”, and media tapping into the government’s Public Interest Journalism Fund being required to promote Treaty propaganda.
But that’s just the start. So is Three Waters: water is just one of the public assets and services being turned over to a tribal elite: “the iwi who run multi-million-dollar business development corporations”,
It is a scandalous situation – as Auckland University’s Professor Elizabeth Rata explains in an article in The Australian: “New Zealand’s constitution is currently undergoing a major heart and lung transplant via co-governance arrangements between Maori corporate tribes and the government … the Labour government is determined to embed racialised policies across a swathe of the nation’s laws and institutions.”
Professor Rata describes those pushing this tribal takeover as “radical intellectuals of the corporate tribes”, ably assisted by “social justice warriors armed with an unassailable moral righteousness”.
Even more hypocritically, given Ardern’s wittering on the global stage about “disinformation”, disinformation is at the heart of her racial separatist agenda.
Namely that the authority for 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.
Former Judge and Law Lecturer Anthony Willy has examined the case, and, by exposing the ‘partnership’ claim as a gross fabrication, he reveals the deception being used to persuade New Zealanders to accept tribal control […]
“It is beyond question that nothing in the 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 wilfully dishonest.”
When it comes to Jacinda Ardern, the answer is probably “both”.
By using the Treaty ‘partnership’ deception to justify giving control of essential services to the Maori elite, Jacinda Ardern is 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.
The Australian
Enter, Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta, multiple members of whose family have secured lucrative government contracts.
But, hey, it’s not nepotism when you live under tribal rule, which is what the Ardern Government is plainly steering New Zealand towards.