CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact
The Kiwi version of Scott Morrison, New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Luxon has this week managed to do what many thought was impossible.
This is making enemies out of just about every single Maori in New Zealand, after creating an environment so hostile that a vast number of political differences have been put aside to focus on opposing the Luxon Government.
New Zealand Parliament was briefly suspended yesterday, as Maori politicians of every stripe delivered a powerful haka in opposition to a controversial bill.
The libertarian ACT Party, a minor partner in New Zealand’s National Party-led coalition, has introduced a bill that will radically change how the Treaty of Waitangi is interpreted.
This comes as the Prime Minister’s far-right colleagues in the libertarian ACT Party, a minor partner that makes up the numbers is Luxton’s National Party-led coalition, introduces a bill to New Zealand Parliament that aims to radically change how the Treaty of Waitangi is interpreted.
Often described as New Zealand’s founding document, the Treaty of Waitangi is an agreement that was signed between the British Crown and around 540 Maori chiefs on February 6, 1840.
After years of conflicts and war, the Treaty aimed to define the relationship between Maori and Colonial authorities.
But in the era of radicalised right-wing social media algorithms and pointless culture wars, the ACT Libertarians claim that this document grants Indigenous Kiwis greater legal and political rights and causes ‘division by race’.
The bill has prompted waves of protests from a vast array of New Zealanders, from the working class to academics and lawyers – who worry these changes negatively impact Maori rights.
After months of marching, the protests against Luxon’s inability to stop his government from being puppeteer’d by white supremacists has finally spilled over into parliament.
Yesterday, the government attempted to rush the bill through two weeks before it was originally due to be scheduled.
As each party was called to provide their votes for the Treaty Principles Bill, Hauraki Waikato MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke of the Te Pati Maori Party erupted into a haka. The furious old white men across the other side of the room failed in their efforts to stop the demonstration.
The entire public gallery and Te Pāti Māori MPs continued with the haka, as Labour and Green MPs stood in apparent support of the protest that was performed directly in front of ACT Party leader David Seymour who has been a vocal proponent of the bill.
By the end of the haka, Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke had been joined by all factions of Maori politics, from farmers to environmentalists, Anti-vaxxers, Christians and full blown soap-dodging lefties.
Not since Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s dismal handling of the bushfires and pandemic has the world seen a government that is so incompetent in it’s attempts to divide the country that they have actually united the country against them.
The speaker then suspended parliament, later describing the haka as ‘grossly disorderly’ and calling it ‘appallingly disrespectful conduct’ inside a political institution that is in the throes of erasing their people’s history and culture.
