Maori

Cactus Kate has a cracker of a post (no not the one about anal sex) about Maori selling land. You know, land, the taonga protected by the treaty. It seems that only Maori are allowed to sell land to ‘foreigners’ and only ’foreigners’ who aren’t Chinese.

Ngai Tgahu know all about asset sales so should be supporting National’s privatisation programme. Here are just two recent examples of Maori more than happy to flog off their assets to foreigners who need OIO approvals.

In 2010 they sold 1348 hectares in Kaikoura to an American couple for 7.5 million dollars. They paid 8 million dollars so made a $500,000 loss.

In 2011 they sold 18,000 hectares of forest to a Swiss owned family company for 22.9 million dollars. And continue to manage it. Alf Grumble reported it at the time on his blog noting the hypocrisy and lies of Tuku Morgan in relation to asset sales. Ngai Tahu sold this land under the euphemism of a “change in investment strategy”. National are having that same change in investment strategy selling stakes in SOE’s.

Maori and the left wing and assorted other whingers are now carping that the Mixed Ownership Model can be spiked via the Treaty of Waitangi. Cactus Kate pours them back in the bottle.

Now Maori wish to construct an argument that National’s privatisation programme cannot go ahead because of the SOE Act due to a conflict with Treaty Principles. More taking of the piss.

Selling assets to locals and foreigners seems to be completely in line with Maori principles of making profit or a loss when inept, for themselves. Ngai Tahu have proven that Maori principles are to sell when it suits them.

Another example of Maori completely taking the piss for their own commercial ends.

No one need think Maori are not immune from selling their precious taonga when required. And there is nothing wrong with this, just don’t hide behind the skirt of our Queen Elizabeth and some loosely interpreted Treaty principles when the Crown wishes to do likewise to pay for things like schools, health and a legacy of years of over-spending on welfare on a feral heaving pathetic underclass.

Looks like Maori and Labour shared the dux of the class in Hypocrisy School.

via the tipline, rules for some and rules for others:

Sitting in a corporate box at Heineken Classic.

Maori Sports Awards/Maori Tennis adjacent to us sitting courtside in the fully catered area having brought in and eating their own kai moana (oysters) in a large chilly bin.

When an adjoining box brought in hot chips purchased on site but not off the corporate area menu the officials told them loudly they weren’t allowed to eat them in the boxed area as these were not from the menu.

However when the hypocrisy of the situation where the oyster munching spectators were being ignored was explained a clearly embarrassed official slunk back to the outskirts.

Interesting!

First Hone, now this.

In an email to Mr Rankin, Race Relations Commissioner Joris de Bres said although he deplored Professor Mutu’s suggestion that New Zealand should discriminate against white-skinned people from certain countries, the Bill of Rights Act allowed people to speak their mind.

Mr de Bres also quoted the Education Act, which, he said, respected the freedom of academic staff and students, within the law, to question and test perceived wisdom, to put forward new ideas and to state controversial or unpopular opinions.

Professor Mutu, who is also head of the Department of Maori Studies at the University of Auckland, claimed Maori were generally supportive of

Or is the rule if you are Maori you can say what you like and get away with it?

Imagine if an academic had used academic freedom to say we should not allow jews, arabs, afghans or eskimo in because they didn’t play rugby. Joris would have had kittens.

As is typical these days, a liberal academic is upset at the truth:

Auckland University of Technology Maori history professor Paul Moon claimed in the last 18 months the racially-charged term of “Maori child abuse” has crept into public and Government use.

“The Government has even commissioned reports on Maori child abuse so it’s had the effect of entrenching that label.”

Moon said there is no such thing as Maori child abuse or Pakeha child abuse.

“By putting the word ‘Maori’ in front of it, a stereotype is created which is inaccurate and dangerous,” he said.

“The vast majority of Maori parents, like the vast majority of all other parents, do a fantastic job of raising their children.”

Moon called on the Government and media to stop referring to “Maori child abuse” when discussing New Zealand’s problem with violence towards children.

He accepted Maori child abuse rates were higher than Pakeha.

Paul Moon may be upset at labels but David Rankin is more upset with liberal academic tosspots:

Maori are a warrior race prone to violence, and an academic’s call to stop referring to Maori child abuse is whitewashing the problem instead of dealing with it, a prominent iwi leader says.

Ngapuhi leader David Rankin hit back at an Auckland academic’s claim the increasing use of the term “Maori child abuse” is fuelling racism.

Rankin said Maori are a “violent people” and the term accurately reflects what some Maori parents are doing to their children.

“I am sick of academics trying to sanitise our behaviour,” Rankin said.

“We come from a warrior race but colonisation has meant that we no longer have any battles to fight and we have too much time on our hands so that violent energy is not used up.”

Rankin said Maori need to take ownership of the problem and stop trying to whitewash it.

“It’s time for us to take that warrior energy and deal to these thugs.”

Good on David Rankin for speaking the truth. Maori need to own their own problems not fob them off onto others.

Len Brown has a problem. He has crawled and weaseled and been sneaky and furtive over his dealings with the Maori Statutory Board. Now the demands are rolling in.

The Maori Statutory Board is seeking $295 million over 10 years from Auckland ratepayers to advance Maori interests.

A Maori events centre, access to affordable housing, funding for Maori wardens, a marae development fund and ranger training for parks, particularly on ancestral land, are on a long list of items the independent board wants funded.

A greater say in the day-to-day running of the Super City is a top priority with Maori participating in setting bylaws and regional planning, and greater provision for the Treaty of Waitangi in council documents.

Yesterday, councillors at a strategy and finance committee meeting rejected the late addition of $295 million into the draft 10-year budget, but asked officers to go away and see where the board’s request matched existing budgets.

Len Brown should honour his election promise and hold a referendum on maori representation for the council. This sort of nonsense needs to end. Ratepayers are being held to ransom.

Maori Statutory Board chairman David Taupiri said the board was seeking 3 per cent of the council’s budget for 10 per cent of the population.

He said the funding request was a “foresight of Parliament”, which set up the independent board to ensure Maori were recognised in the Super City.

David Taupiri is actually advocating double dipping. The 10 percent of the population that he proclaims he is representing already enjoy all the same services the council provides as everyone else. What they are asking for is a special payement, a bonus for maori, but is in actual fact a tax on all ratepayers.

Iwi are looking at the opportunity afforded by the mixed ownership model:

An alliance of Maori tribes plan to buy up to 20 per cent of any state-owned power companies put up for partial sale by the new National Government.

Prime Minister John Key is sticking by his party’s plan to sell up to 49 per cent of Meridian Energy, Mighty River Power, Genesis Energy and Solid Energy in the wake of National’s election win on Saturday.

He has rejected suggestions his party lacks a mandate to partially sell off the state-owned assets.

Ngai Tahu chair Mark Solomon this morning told Radio New Zealand a consortium of tribes were interested in a large stake in the companies.

The partnership would work because iwi would not on-sell the shares overseas and would reinvest dividends in New Zealand, he said.

I think this is an outstanding idea – have an alliance of Maori tribes join the mixed ownership model the Government won re-election on.

Next step –  imagine IwiSaver – a Kiwisaver provider that invests in the future retirement savings of Maori New Zealanders. The bulk of their investing would probably be subcontracted out to one or more funds managers, but think of the ongoing wealth that could be created by Maoridom – in NZ assets. Have a special “IwiSaver” contribution rate of 1% for Maoris on salaries to contribute and get matching contributions for their own accounts.

Promoting Maori financial literacy, self-sufficiency and an ongoing partnership between Iwi and the Crown in infrastructure – can surely only be a good thing?

You know people are beyond help when they can’t even get off their arses to help themselves and send the missus instead.

Maori women are faking symptoms to get medication or help for their men, who refuse to go to the doctor.

Health providers in Rotorua say Maori men are reluctant to go to their GPs, fearful of receiving bad news, and have welcomed research published this week in AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples which has highlighted the issue.

The research paper said Maori women were going to their GPs presenting the symptoms of their Maori male partners to get health information and medication.

Former general manager of Te Whanau Hauora o Ngongotaha, Rob Beckett, said it happened locally and, in his experience, Maori men were reluctant to go to their general practitioner because they were scared of the likelihood of bad news.

No amount of money or welfare or hugs and kisses can make up for drop kicks like this. Who would have thought that the warrior race had become so gay?

Once were Warriors, pfffft.

from The Herald feature about Hastings photographer Allan Baldwin has spent his life creating precious taonga — over 1000 photographs of Maori kuia with moko. Image copyright Allan Baldwin.

The Aussies are whinging after the All Blacks cut their throats last weekend:

The All Blacks need to dump the throat-slitting gesture at the end of the Kapa O Pango haka as it reminds people the “Maoris (sic) once engaged in unspeakable conduct”, according to an Australian commentator.

Sydney Morning Herald columnist Paul Sheehan writes today that “the violence suggested by throat-slitting gestures has no place in sport or sportsmanship, especially in the national colours”.

In an opinion piece about simple gestures meaning a lot in the ultra-competitive world of sports, Sheehan says that “just before kick-off the All Blacks will perform the greatest ritual in world sport, the haka”.

However, he warns the team and its management might want to consider what exactly they are symbolising.

“If some of the All Blacks persist in ending this latest version of the haka with a throat-slitting motion, they will be using a very big stage to remind people the Maoris once engaged in unspeakable conduct, which we don’t discuss any more.

I’ve got one word for Paul Sheehan – “Tasmania”