Opinion
Do what you love and you’ll never work another day in your life. That old saying is true even for whores: and there are no more willing whores than the mainstream media. When the NZ media indignantly denied that taking the government’s money influenced them to be favourable to Labour, they weren’t entirely lying. Like the political nymphomaniac hookers they are, they just love doing it anyway: getting paid was a bonus.
And they’re nothing if not troupers: still banging away like so many dunny doors, even after Labour have been hit with electoral brewer’s droop.
Taxpayers have paid for Prime Minister Christopher Luxon’s own Maori language classes, even as he criticised public servants for bonuses for its use.
As New Zealand grapples with a new style of Government and a new approach to the Maori language, the Prime Minister has fallen foul of his own advice to the public service.
Luxon appears guilty of a double standard after scolding bureaucrats for taking cash bonuses for understanding the Maori language, while using taxpayer funds to learn himself.
Note the pea-and-shells game, here: Luxon didn’t criticise public servants for learning the language, he criticised them getting paid for knowing it. Those are two very different propositions.
Public money has paid for Luxon’s private tuition in te reo, the Maori language, with the prime minister arguing it was “highly relevant” to his role.
This month, Luxon confirmed his Government would axe payments to te reo-speaking public servants, criticising those who took the bonuses.
NZ Herald
To put it into perspective, it’s one thing for the workplace to pay for employee first aid training, quite another to pay employees simply for having a first aid qualification.
Although to be fair, first aid training is actually useful. Speaking a language almost no one speaks even in New Zealand is about as useful as a degree in Fat Studies.
But what the NZ media get paid to do, their Australian competition puts out for free.
After just three weeks in office, New Zealand’s new Prime Minister Christopher Luxon is being accused of running a “scorch and burn” reform agenda that is responsible for the worst decline in race relations “since the early stages of colonisation”.
And what racist horrors, exactly, is the new government accused of perpetrating?
So far, Mr Luxon’s government has announced it will repeal the legislation behind New Zealand’s world-leading plan to make smoking tobacco illegal — a change community leaders fear Maori and Pasifika people will “bear the brunt of”.
Yep, they’re practically dragging cuzzies off the street and shoving a lit durrie in their mouths.
Is that the worst they’ve got?
The government has also disbanded the Maori Health Service and minimised the use of Maori language in the public service.
So, the government is abolishing medical apartheid? My, how the media have come a long way since the Springboks protests.
And most controversially, as part of his coalition negotiations, Mr Luxon agreed to indulge the ACT Party in its desire to question the interpretation of the Treaty of Waitangi, New Zealand’s founding document that underpins claims of Maori sovereignty.
ACT leader David Seymour wants a referendum on the principles of the treaty, and so far Mr Luxon has allowed the idea to go to a committee — something that will fuel a divisive conversation about the recognition and rights of Maori in New Zealand
ABC Australia
Or, more correctly, whether an exclusive racial minority gets to lord it over the rest of New Zealand. The ABC also conveniently neglects to mention that the Treaty has been radically re-interpreted already, courtesy of a power-hungry clique of racist Maori elite, and activist judges. That such re-interpretation is long overdue for a democratic reckoning is something Their ABC doesn’t want to discuss.
And who is its sole source for all this race-baiting guff?
None other than Debbie Pakeha herself. Which is about as balancing as using Lidia Thorpe for a story on Australia Day.
And no mention, anywhere in the article, that two of the three coalition leaders are Maori as well.
Because that would destroy the narrative nearly as effectively as Nyunggai Warren Mundine and Jacinta Nampijinpa Price destroyed the “Voice” referendum.