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Our fellow member Colinxy has written a most-excellent article over at No Minister.
Titled ‘The Myth of the Maori Elite – Rebutted’ it is, IMHO, well worth a read.
The link is below:
https://nominister.wordpress.com/2026/02/07/the-myth-of-the-maori-elite-rebutted/?fbclid=IwY2xjawP4TfNleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFGUk1RelpER2Y5NnowVWZ5c3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHr2hvj3D4LIW5EbypRl-J-uu2AhEOcpNL0X_mB11Z0TDfXYfNfdNFiAUX-BI_aem_XkcZqPU3Vn7tXfcuTZi18A
Thanks!
Dr Harpreet Singh is proving a goldmine in illustrating Leftist academic stupidity in NZ. I am writing a fourth one on him — where he tries to blame the Musket Wars on whites (or rather whitey is complicit and should take the majority blame).
I hope to have it out this week — he’s taken to promoting his article on it this week on FB, so I’d to get mine out soon.
Colin is a thinker and his opinion is well written. Dr Singh on the other hand is a Fool.
His claim is there is no Maori Elite. Really? I will give Dr Singh another name. Tukuroirangi Morgan. If Morgan does not claim to be of and acts like one of the Maori Elite, then I am not a New Zealander.
Must be the fancy underpants that make him invincible, if only he would wear them on the outside of his pants!
Thanks, I do try. Singh only came onto my radar because my Leftists acquaintances kept pushing his crap on social media, as though he was some type of guru.
Prior to No Minister, I’d use the unfollow feature if they got too political/stupid, but these days, I use their posts as material for rebuttals.
Although off topic, as mentioned yesterday on genderism came up about Professor Robert Winston.
Biology Professor Robert Winston Said This 5 Years Ago On BBC & Hasn’t Been On Since
https://youtu.be/MnvTpllErmg
10 mins 28 secs : Jan 24, 2026 : ‘Craig Houston talks to’
Five years ago, Biology Professor David Winston appeared on the BBC and said something that the establishment didn’t want to hear. He hasn’t been invit … “more”
Click on “more” as it briefly shows how the media elite have “memory-holed” him so a new cult could freely arise, unchallenged.
——— ————— ————
On Dr. Harpreet Singh, I figure that it was during the time when India was aligned with the Soviet Union, that communism aspect infiltrated into, particularly the universities of India.
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There is too much of this ‘thinking’ that is coming out in the diaspora from India, settling into NZ’s institutions & media.
I must have missed that comment, sorry.
It’s basically flows from Plato’s Forms. The imaginary Forms realm is real, and reality is imaginary. This is a major thought process behind Hegel’s dialectic and therefore Marx’s dialectic.
So, the imaginary is real, biology (reality) is fake. Or to put it in Marxian language. Imaginary sex is true consciousness, the true understanding, the liberation. Biology is false consciousness, the demiurge’s prison.
When you have true consciousness, you can free yourself from the shackles of the demiurge. Note: in this case substitute true consciousness for queer consciousness. Marx, himself, called his transcendent communism (true consciousness), “class consciousness.” (And Marx uses the term false consciousness, too).
Just in case no one read my article on the demiurge, you can think of the demiurge as the Christian devil. It’s wrong, but it might serve as an analogy.
The demiurge, under Gnosticism, is the false god (YHWH, Yahweh, Jehovah, Allah, etc.). The god of the old testament. The one that imprisoned mankind. To the trannies, god has imprisoned them in the wrong body (born in the wrong body).
Marxism is a gnostic religion…
Is Harpreet Singh one of Willie Jacksons relatives? They appear to come from the same country and no doubt have very similar DNA.
Colin, I have a problem with people like Dr Singh. As I race towards my 80’s and still working full time with Special Needs Children, I am in the top end Tax Bracket and through this excessive Tax i pay, through my Taxes I have to pay to have Dr Singh employed in a non productive way to spout his politically biased garbage.
If Dr Singh did not rely on my excessive Tax payments to support himself, then I may not hold the same dislike towards these sort of Bludgers who spout disinformation, but then again, I may be wrong in my opinion of myself as I don’t think I will be in a position to find out.
It’s the grift that Karl Marx always wanted (and to rule). To be paid to spout bovine scatology. So, Singh is following his cult leader in “praxis.”
Those elite Maori must have kept and old dunga Landrover to drive to the Maree and left the new Ford Ranger, BMW in the shed, to prove they were not elite to their brothers!
Ever been in a quarry or mine, or on the industrial floor? It was fairly common for upper management to ditch their business suits and wear overalls, hard hats and so forth.
Or there’s the Harris and Clinton examples of changing accents depending on the crowd.
….”Or there’s the Harris and Clinton examples of changing accents depending on the crowd.”…..
The chameleon effect. Honed to perfection by Bolger.
Oh yeah. Is that bastard buried yet?
From https://www.amemorytree.co.nz/
First Names:James Brendan
Also known as:Jim
Last Name:Bolger
31 May 1935 – 15 Oct 2025Age:90y
Country:New Zealand
Funeral Home:Harbour City Funeral Home Ltd
He is survived by his wife, and their nine children.
Morning Troopers.
Today I present you with “Maori Leave”. And it is a thing. And it is racist. So far Karen Chhour has declined to front Duncan Garner on this. I have a lot of respect for Karen, so I hope she’s just taking time to get her ducks in a row.
It’s fucking disgusting, and this government was supposed to be doing something about racist seperatism.
From Matua Kahurangi:
“A clause quietly embedded in a collective agreement at Oranga Tamariki should alarm anyone who still believes the public service is meant to operate on neutral ground.
Revealed this week by Duncan Garner, the provision grants Maori staff discretionary paid cultural leave that is self-defined, open-ended, and explicitly protected from managerial scrutiny. Attendance at land court hearings, iwi or hapu meetings, cultural performances such as Te Matatini, and other obligations determined by the individual qualify. The list is deliberately non-exhaustive.
The crucial detail is simple. The entitlement applies to Maori staff only.
Non-Maori employees with community, religious, family, or cultural commitments must use annual leave, leave without pay, or whatever goodwill a manager is prepared to offer. One group receives an automatic, protected benefit. Everyone else manages as they always have.
“That distinction matters. This is not flexible workplace policy applied evenly. It is a race-based entitlement written into a taxpayer-funded agency responsible for the care of vulnerable children.
The clause goes further than granting leave. It removes oversight. Managers are instructed not to define or limit what constitutes a cultural obligation. Decisions are to defer to lived experience. Declining leave is implicitly framed as breaching Treaty values. “Discretionary” exists in name only.
This structure creates pressure, not trust. It turns ordinary management decisions into moral tests and makes questioning the policy professionally dangerous. A current Oranga Tamariki staff member felt unable to raise concerns internally for fear it could cost promotions, opportunities, or their future in the organisation. That fear alone should have stopped this policy in its tracks.
Workplaces already accommodate competing obligations every day. Church leaders, volunteer responders, migrant families supporting overseas funerals, religious minorities observing non-public holidays, parents dealing with childcare emergencies. None of this is new. The difference has always been that these responsibilities were managed under the same leave framework for everyone.
This policy breaks that principle. It elevates one identity above all others inside the same organisation.
Supporters will call this equity. It is not. Equity does not mean granting permanent advantages based on ancestry while others absorb the cost. That is hierarchy, not fairness.
The setting makes the decision worse. Oranga Tamariki is not an academic institution or a cultural organisation. It is a frontline government agency funded by all New Zealanders. When it signals internally that some staff are more deserving of paid time off than others, resentment is inevitable. Silence follows. Good people keep their heads down. Institutional trust erodes further.
This did not happen by accident. The clause was negotiated, approved, and defended using language designed to shut down challenge. Someone at Oranga Tamariki signed off on it. Someone in government knew, or should have known.
The Minister’s initial reluctance to front on the issue raises further questions. Governments that campaign against race-based entitlements do not get to look away when one appears inside an agency they oversee. Responsibility does not stop at the edge of union negotiations.
Invoking the Treaty to justify this arrangement stretches its meaning beyond recognition. The Treaty does not require race-exclusive employment benefits. It does not mandate preferential treatment within the public service. Using it this way turns a foundational document into a shield against accountability.
When staff feel compelled to become whistleblowers simply to ask whether a policy is fair, something fundamental has broken. The outrage here is not about culture. It is about a state agency abandoning equal treatment and daring its own employees to object.
If the public service cannot apply the same rules to everyone inside its own walls, it has no credibility left to lecture the rest of the country about fairness.”
Thanks Saggy;
So much beyond a joke.
: Race-Based Leave Exposed Inside Oranga Tamariki
https://youtu.be/lPFpeVFN8Us?t=131
Set to start on the issue : 10th Feb., 2026 : Duncan Garner Podcast.
2:12 set to start
04:30 Why Duncan says this divides the workforce
08:40 Government response and Karen Chhour (declined interviewed, may later turn up)
10:00 Stuart Nash and listener questions
Seems to be all a part of Luxon’s National Party for CoGovernance.
Winston Peters NZFirst, and the legislation he was going to remove, another non event, & this enacted while his party is in Cabinet.
Sort of understandable Karen Chour wants a moment, a day or so to consider things before reacting to this news.
This should be an opportunity for ACT to set up real blinder on what is going on in government departments.
The Waitangi Treaty Commission fixed the issue of the “Maori Day Off”.
Now it can expand under Toitū Te Tiriti to all government departments, then regional & local governments, to phase into Corporate then Companies.
Truly National Party CoGovernance.
I heard today the WINZ crowd baying because the govt. or management has cut the number of security guards in the offices.
All good, as it was a carryover of previous incidents.
Ive no doubt there can be a problem given the people that they offend basically daily, so perhaps they need to be better at their job.
That’s just the tip of the iceberg, mate.
I note there is no limit to how many days they can take, it’s open ended!
Yup if you’re maori you can take as much paid leave as you want, and your manager must approve it under the TOW. A lesson on how to build resentment and division in the workplace. Not to mention tanking productivity which I imagine is next-to-useless to begin with.
Simple fix. Don’t employ ’em.
We are a small family business and don’t employ anyone that’s not a family member.
In the past we’ve employed some really great people, and unfortunately a few really bad ones. The problems we have had completely turned us off hiring non family members.
Bet the public service has a quota for employing Maori!
Re the meme ICE Fishing – perhaps those questioned by the ICE Warriors could be detained on suspicion just in case they are illegal.
A week in a holding cell might stop the stupid games – or else deport them (in a shipping container) and let them reapply to come back.
This is a worthwhile conversation if you are interested in the subject. It is seldom I have the attention span to watch a whole one and a half hour podcast but I found this thoroughly engrossing.
Good Oil Podcast Episode 23.
Cam talks to the public spokesperson for the Council of Licensed Firearm Owners.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJjUpNwIlvU&t=3593s
Will Tamatha Paul resign before the next general election or prefer to be booted out as the lowest polling candidate?
How embarrassing that her past catches up on you tube even, it’s hard to make good out of that shit stream, when 70 million litres a day are floating out to sea.
She could always go for a swim there to prove it’s safe!
Is this the first time a pollie has been so well caught out in public with all the media caught whistling Dixie and looking everywhere but where it counted!
Tamatha Paul, like Genter, failed to read the writing on the wall. Last year National shitcanned Three Waters legislation passed by Labour which was to remove responsibility for water, sewage, & stormwater from local councils & turn them over to central government.
Paul was only one of many councillors relishing the thought of being freed from the mundane tasks like fixing up fifty years neglect of Wellington’s sewage system. The dysfunctional South Wairarapa District Council joined Wellington Water which was to be the precursor to government funded infrastructure. They’re now knee deep in the shit literally & figuratively.
Paul & Genter are now cornered rats but Wellingtonians will continue to support them as they are far left of centre & sanity. The question is, will National finally get the idea through their thick heads that they’ll never wring another vote out of Wellington & leave them to sort out the mess they created with their votes.
You are correct nasska. Paul will probably get voted back in unless Labour put up a strong candidate against her and I think they will. Similarly with Genter.
The WCC elections late last year proved my point — rates in Wellington are going through the roof, lots of people are pissed off with cycle ways, small business is failing all over town BUT a similar leftwing biased Council was reelected ( some different faces but the balance of the Council is the same)
The reason Little was “appointed” as mayor, I think, was that it was the first step for Labour to regain the two electoral seats gained by the Greens in the last election.
Wellington is a much more woke, far left city than it was 5-10 years ago.
Speaking of small businesses going under, I can’t believe how many empty shops there are in Nelson.
..Central Nelson, I mean. Town.
any town is pretty much the same
She could always go for a swim there to prove it’s safe and the money spent on cycle-ways was effective at processing sewage.
Perhaps she thinks sewage has rights that need to be protected, after all she must identify with said sewage, as it comes out of her mouth.
Well you know that video that upset the liberals cause it showed the Obama’s as apes (but ignored everyone else also depicted as animals)?
Well the guy who did it has done another one and this one is even funnier:
https://x.com/dom_lucre/status/2021257087536210187?s=46&t=fxsbCy2FdUH-bcEHBUxnYg
Cancelling voices and camaraderie designed to kill discussion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBn9vfy_RBU
Jeremy Clarkson EXPOSES Keir Starmer’s Plan to DESTROY the British Pub | UK
Johnny had just failed his law exam, but instead of sulking, he marched straight to his professor’s office with a plan.
Johnny: “Sir, is it true you know everything about law?”
Professor: “Naturally. I’ve been teaching it for over 30 years.”
Johnny: “Perfect. Let’s make a deal. If you can answer my question, I’ll accept my failing grade. But if you can’t… you give me an ‘A.’”
The professor, amused and slightly arrogant, agreed.
Professor: “Go ahead. Ask.”
Johnny leaned forward with a grin.
Johnny: “What is legal but not logical, logical but not legal, and neither legal nor logical?”
The professor froze. He thought. He scribbled notes. He paced the room. Hours ticked by, but he couldn’t crack it. Finally, red-faced and defeated, he gave Johnny an “A.”
The next day, still fuming and desperate for answers, the professor posed the riddle to his class.
Professor: “Who can tell me—what is legal but not logical, logical but not legal, and neither legal nor logical?”
To his surprise, nearly every hand shot up.
He called on one student.
Student: “Sir, you’re 65 years old and married to a 28-year-old woman. That’s legal but not logical. Your wife is having an affair with a 23-year-old man. That’s logical but not legal. And finally… you just gave your wife’s boyfriend an ‘A’ after he failed his exam. That’s neither legal nor logical!”
Today’s Stuff website https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360936335/how-good-are-you-spotting-fake-ai-generated-news-content challenges viewers to identify an image as genuine or generated by AI.
#. “It’s so important for democracy and for audiences to understand that things are either news, which is a very special category of information, or they’re not news,”
Very true but Stuff have a helpful hint:
#. “Text is another give away, it is quite often misspelled or distorted and looks gibberish,”
They hired the schoolgirl reporters & sacked the sub editors! But the author tried to get herself back onto firmer ground:
#. “Real news is getting harder and harder to distinguish.”
Not to Stuff readers with above room temperature !Qs. They know instinctively that they are being forcefed biased spin & Lefty drivel poorly disguised as journalism!
Am I missing something? Some of those photos were AI-generated and some were real. However all of them were taken from news stories. How are news outlets able to publish AI images of events as news? Clearly what they are publishing is not a portrayal of the scene.
Interesting email from Peter Williams / Tax Payers Union about provisions buried deep in the revised RMA legislation which gives the Environment Minister the right to impose taxes on water (and other things) without going through Parliament. Sorry I can’t link the email and it isn’t on their site (yet?)
Fed Farmers have written asking for the relevant bits to be removed but no answer yet.
Part of it
” I’ve had some long chats with the Feds, Jordan, and the Taxpayers’ Union team in Wellington. They spent the summer immersing themselves in the 900-odd pages of proposed legislation.
While the Cabinet decisions on the replacement to the RMA (for example, wanting to get back to a property rights-based regime) were good, the consensus is that much of the content within the Bills reflect what the officials want rather than what the Ministers instructed (and have been saying publicly).
That’s why this email probably comes as a surprise. The draft laws just don’t match what Ministers, and the media, have been saying. “
what the officials want rather than what the Ministers instructed
Just as many of the officials, techno-bureaucrats continue to totally ignore their governmental ministers and still continue full on, with the likes of the He Puapua Report, and anything else they can slide through, like in the Environment, Educational aspects, etc..
No one in the current tri-coalition really cut the public service numbers, as after all it was supposed to quietly gear up into active CoGovernance, to be fully aligned with the rampant “Toitū Te Tiriti; is tupuna inspired, tiriti led, mana motuhake driven and mokopuna focused.
Our intent is to demonstrate the beginning of a unified Aotearoa response to the Government’s assault on tangata whenua and Te Tiriti o Waitangi.”
https://toitutetiriti.co.nz/#:~
To be ruled by Insurrection, Rebellion, Treason, then merged into the total control compliancy of ‘CoGovernance’?
Sack the recalcitrant bureaucrats. Partisans hindering govt ministers cannot be condoned.
If they can’t do the Ministers instructions, sack the bastards!
I’m picking you would not need to sack the entire dept!
What’s that old adage?
If a politicians lips are moving, then it is lying.
“Lips are moving”
“Come on my lover, give us a kiss”. Pretty Girl —- Rupert Hogsnort
@ 1 min 53 secs
Pretty Girl – Hogsnort Rupert
https://youtu.be/plKFUXqrStQ
2 mins 38 secs : Performed in Wellington 1985
NZ No1 hit August 1970
Finally got there in 1985 😘 @ ^ 1 min 50 sec ^
———- ———— ——- ——–
How far should a woman’s touch in the Navy go?
Then here is an acquittal at a court martial for commanding a kiss.:—-
…. placed her lips on a window and gestured to a junior officer outside to kiss her through the glass, which the junior officer agreed to do.
She then motioned to another junior officer – the complainant – to come inside the bar and kiss her cheek, which he did, in full view of other members of the company. …..
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360936627/senior-navy-officer-found-not-guilty-encouraging-junior-officer-kiss-them
It seems the complaint was taken by Military Police by duress on the complainant.
Well it wasn’t a submarine kiss on a reef.
What happens at Lautoka should stay in Lautoka.
Hunty would gladly service her. 🤩
Homo, hetero, farmyard, whatever.
Hunty would service anything!
😊 😊 🤔 😎 🤔 disgusting,,,
Winning bigly. Biggest mandate in 80 years. Trump congratulates and gives full support.
https://rumble.com/v75jajg-japan-crushes-liberal-globalists-in-massive-election-victory.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a
Japan CRUSHES Liberal Globalists in MASSIVE Election VICTORY!!!
Dr Steve Turley
I’m sitting here wondering when red radio, stuffed, zb or some other msm outlet are going to mention Tamatha Paul and co who decided that Wellington needed cycle lanes more than a decent sewage system? It’s on all the blogs and is everywhere but the main stream media. Surely failing to cover this is some kind of crime? Do they hate the people of Wellington so much? Why do they treat us with such disdain? Why don’t they just cover the news like they’re supposed to? The sooner they all go to the wall the better.
There is an ex Councilor now suggesting the article is a hit job. If so, the only one to gain from it is the Labour Party. As I said above they will desperate to regain the two Wellington seats they lost the Greens.
Bring the cat fight!!
She’s Maori, Green & female. IOW she is absolutely untouchable.
Tamatha Paul could eat boiled babies in Lambton Quay without media comment or censure.
I think you will find the lefty tide is slowly turning in our favour. Might take a while, but it’s coming and when it does you better stock up with ear protection. The wailing from lefty fuck wits will be deafening.
The MSM, were all too busy “whistling Dixie”.
How many do they lose before ltsa get the message?
https://x.com/wildnfree1984/status/2021046814502420926?s=46
Priceless
https://x.com/babylon_be80909/status/2021147296126410807?s=46
Beauiful
Sobering facts
https://x.com/karma44921039/status/2021131426012230077?s=46
That’s more than 3 per person for the whole Australian population.
I don’t have that problem.
But family do!
From the FSU
Cath Simpson is a New Zealand nurse who is currently facing a disciplinary tribunal – for posting lawful political opinions on X.
Because Cath is facing this unfair process, she made a basic, lawful request for a copy of her HR file.
This request was denied, emails from HR were unanswered and instead, an anonymous card was posted to her home address, which read:
“Cath,
HR are asking some very specific questions about you.
What the f*** are you up to?
For everyone’s sake, please stop immediately!”
That is intimidation. Sent to her home. For asking a lawful question. All while she’s already defending herself over posting about politics on X.
I am quite honestly shocked, Friend, that I am having to write to you about such an egregious set of events taking place in New Zealand.
Cath has reported the incident to the Police – and the Free Speech Union is mobilising to defend her
She’s now defending serious charges brought by the Nursing Council before the Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal – not for harming a patient, not for misconduct at work, but for opinions she posted on her personal X account, in her own time.
You don’t have to agree with Cath’s opinions, or views, Friend to understand why nurses shouldn’t be dragged through the coals for posting opinions on X.
The stakes are huge. So are the costs. The Nursing Council has briefed a King’s Counsel. Cath faces penalties that could include suspension, fines, and loss of registration.
This is exactly how these processes work: even when someone hasn’t done anything unlawful, the stress and cost can be crushing.
As we so often say – the process is the punishment.
That’s why we need to make sure she isn’t left to face this alone.
This is what a chilling effect looks like
Whatever your politics – whatever you think of Cath’s personal views – this is a line we cannot let become normal: a nurse is hauled into a disciplinary tribunal for lawful speech, and then receives threatening mail at her private address after exercising a basic right.
This is the exact sort of behaviour which chills nurses’ speech.
And we all know what happens next. People don’t “moderate their tone”. They go quiet.
They stop asking questions.
They stop raising concerns.
They stop speaking honestly – not because they’re wrong, but because they’ve seen what happens to the person who sticks their head up.
If we build a culture where nurses can be punished for lawful opinions, and then intimidated when they assert basic rights, we are building the infrastructure for silence the next time we hit a crisis.
And when that happens, it won’t be managers and regulators who suffer first.
It’ll be patients.
Because transparency and accountability don’t survive in a workplace where people are afraid.
Afraid to speak up.
Afraid to disagree.
Afraid to ask questions.
And what happens to Cath now will shape what happens to nurses across New Zealand.
The new Nurses’ ‘Code of Conduct’ makes this so much worse
Later this week we’ll start our fight back against the Nursing Council’s proposed new Code of Conduct – changes that would tighten speech rules even further, including off duty.
Cath’s case is the preview: it shows how quickly “standards” become silence, and how real the consequences are for someone who won’t back down.
What starts with a third party complaint about online posting can end with a nurse’s livelihood being put on the line and threatening letters being posted through their letterbox.
I wonder what Nurse Catherine Simpson was saying?
That far too often, the maori nurses were having too many Maori Day Offs?
Finding places to smoke??
The truth today is no defence, if the other feelz offended.
RNZ
22nd October 2020 ….. A New Plymouth Nurse who made a public post on social media saying all Māori nurses do is have meetings all day and “sit on their fat arses”, has had her registration canceled for the next two years.
https://www.facebook.com/rnznewzealand/posts/10158097114413731/
A fucking pile on in the comments in this case..
I see in this link this refers to another nurse, but perhaps they could make it a class action, for this nurse to gain redress?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/428938/nurse-has-registration-cancelled-following-racist-social-media-posts
They are doing the same to doctors as well.
Was going to make a small donation as I sometimes do. Entered on the donate and there were 6 amounts from $35 to $500 – could not enter a different amount.
Never mind , my $20 will keep.
Ditto with me. To make things more awkward they use a Yank site to process Kiwi donations. They often won’t accept a NZ PO Box number as an address which is garbage as Visa happily mail my statements to the box in question every month without fail.
I fired off an email about it & to be fair I did receive a reply about two months later suggesting that I use a direct credit which I won’t. Strange way to maximise donations but there we have it.
MONDAY MORNING QUARTERBACKS
The Government has instituted an inquiry into the RBNZ’s pandemic response, to be released before the election (and become a stick they can beat the Labour Party with). They have appointed monetary policy experts Athanasios Orphanides and David Archer to conduct it. Dr Orphanides is a former governor of the Central Bank of Cyprus and member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank, and a professor of the Practice of Global Economics and Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. David Archer is a former Reserve Bank assistant governor and former head of the Central Banking Studies Unit at the Bank for International Settlements, which he left in 2022.
(See Transparency International’s report above. If this was a genuine review, they would have called it when National/Act/NZFirst took office in 2023. Waiting to weaponise it as an election issue smells like pure theater.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A9w-Ak3oY8
David vs the Media: SMASHING the building bottlenecks
ACT Leader David Seymour takes a moment to welcome the announcement that 40,000 overseas building products have been approved for use in New Zealand, before taking questions on the COVID Reserve Bank inquiry, regional infrastructure, and visa-free travel for Pacific countries.
Who cares. If it makes Chippy squirm like the rat he is then bring it on. As Willis said, ” he may have dodged the Covid inquiry, but he cannot escape this”. Reporting just before the election does look suspicious
It’s not suspicious it’s ‘timed’. An “October surprise” as the Yanks call it, something big spilt just before the election date.
Here is the next target for the whinging, anti-development crowd. Any bets on this fast track applicationl being blocked ?
https://newsroom.co.nz/2026/02/10/little-known-new-reefton-gold-mining-firm-to-list-on-nzx/
As follow -on from Ed’s post about the actions of the NZ Nursing Council (NZNC) in respect of Kath Simpson, I have posted below an opinion by one Grant Robertson (Not, as far as I can determine, the Labour MP), which might, because it gives ‘background and context’ to the the NZNC’s current actions and intentions, be of interest.
Make of it as you will.
THE ANATOMY OF A HIJACK:
A Manifesto Against the Tribal Enclosure of New Zealand Nursing
New Zealand’s nursing profession is being dragged, kicking and screaming, into a state-mandated hallucination. The Nursing Council’s 2026 Draft Code of Conduct isn’t a safety document; it’s a theological shakedown. It is an attempt to lobotomize the secular, scientific mind and replace it with a 19th-century tribal blueprint that has no business in a modern hospital.
Thanks to the intervention of Todd Stephenson and the ACT Party, the lid has been lifted on this rot. Nurses have been calling out for a lifeline, terrified that their careers will be sacrificed on the altar of “cultural alignment.” It’s time to stop being polite. It’s time to stop being “vague.” It’s time to speak the truth until it hurts.
I. The Treaty is Not a Stethoscope
Let’s be brutally honest: The Treaty of Waitangi is a 180-year-old contractual relic. It is not a medical textbook. It cannot heal a wound, it cannot stop a hemorrhage, and it cannot diagnose a disease. To force nurses to “enact” Treaty principles in a clinical setting is a metaphysical heist.
The political class has taken a piece of parchment and turned it into a golden calf. They expect you to bow. They expect you to treat patients based on their family tree rather than their clinical urgency. This is Apartheid with a “Bicultural” Paint Job. If you are prioritizing one human being over another because of a “partnership” ideology, you aren’t a nurse—you’re a political operative.
II. The Fetish of Compelled Ritual
The hospital should be a temple of Reason, not a cathedral of Ritual. The Council wants to bake “spirituality” into your license.
● The Karakia: It’s a prayer. Stop calling it a “poem.”
● The Hongi: It’s an intimate physical exchange.
● The Pōwhiri: It’s an initiation.
Forcing a secular, atheist, or differently-believing nurse to participate in these rituals is a physical and spiritual trespass. It is a kinky power trip for bureaucrats to watch highly-trained professionals forced to perform a ritual they don’t believe in just to keep their license. If your “spirituality” requires me to share your breath against my will, it’s not “culture”—it’s assault. The Bill of Rights says we have the right not to believe. We are reclaiming that right today.
III. Linguistic Handcuffs: The Farce of Forced Māori
We must address the Forced Bilingualism currently infecting the sector. In a country where 99.999% of the population communicates in English, the Council is mandating the use of Māori terms in professional settings as a loyalty test.
● Language Enforcement: You are now expected to colonize your own tongue with state-sanctioned jargon.
● The Neutrality Trap: If you choose to speak clear, secular English and object to these terms, you aren’t seen as “neutral”—you are framed as hostile or “culturally unsafe.” This is Compelled Speech. To monitor a nurse’s vocabulary for “correctness” is a Soviet-style tactic. A hospital requires precision, not a political performance in a language the vast majority of patients and staff don’t even use for clinical life-saving.
IV. The Speech Police and the Death of Dissent
Principle 4.2 of this draft code is a Gag Order. By banning “offensive” or “ill-informed” speech, the Council is setting a trap for anyone who dares to point out that the emperor has no clothes.
If you think the Treaty is a load of crap, or if you find Māori spirituality irrelevant to pharmacology, the Council wants to fire you. They want to police your Facebook likes and your BBQ conversations. They want to turn your colleagues into informants. This is a Stasi-style surveillance of the soul. We refuse to be bullied into silence. If the truth is “offensive” to the Treaty-obsessed ego, let it be offended. Puncture the ego; save the profession.
V. To the Activists: We are Home.
The standard response to anyone standing up for One Law for All is the predictable, mid-wit slur: “Racist.” “Colonizer.” “Go back to where you came from.”
Listen closely: We are not guests in this country. We were born here. Our ancestors built the hospitals you are currently trying to deconstruct. We are not “partners” in an eternal racial standoff; we are sovereign individuals. We belong to one species—Homo sapiens—and we deserve one law. To the activists who think they can tribalize our healthcare: Stay the f*** away from our clinics. Your “mumbo-jumbo” has no place where lives are on the line.
VI. The Demand for a Clean Blade
We don’t want a “conversation.” We want a Legislative Cleanse:
1. Strip the Code: Remove every mention of the Treaty, “equity,” and spirituality.
2. Clinical Primacy: A nurse is judged by the scalpel and the syringe, not by their ability to recite state-sanctioned poetry.
3. The Secular Shield: No nurse shall ever be compelled to rub noses, pray, or speak a language they do not wish to use.
4. End the Racial Tiers: One law, one people, one standard of care.
The Nursing Council can either be a regulator of science or a cult of the tribe. It cannot be both. We stand with the nurses who are tired of the nonsense. We stand with Todd Stephenson for having the guts to call it out. The air in our hospitals is thick with the perfume of fear—it’s time to open the windows and let the cold light of Reason back in.
Stand up straight. Speak the truth. Reclaim your nation.
Same bullshit in Education.
I left working for education (govt dept) in 1991. The Maori staff assertion and TOW promotion was starting back then.
RSVP
…disgusting
be honest hunty… youve done worse!
…especially from an old-age pensioner…