#NZ National party

[rupertbbare]

23 October 2024: NZ Government cuts funding for research on preventing White Supremacist terrorism.

30 October 2024: NZ Government says they don't think Swastikas are as intimidating as gang patches and don't need the same restrictions.

I think we need to ask why our government does not percieve White Supremacists and Neo Nazis as a threat

[soloh]

"Man notorious in home country for dodgy international dealings now being sued for dodgy international dealings".

F- you, John Key, karma's a bitch.

(Also god there's just something about people constantly claiming the working classes aren't working hard enough if they can't afford to live, then being caught making their own money by doing illegal shit instead of working, that just soothes my soul).

[chaithetics]

THE TREATY PRINCIPLES BILL IS BEING PRESENTED TO THE HOUSE TOMORROW!!!!!!!

EDIT: Here's a link with more info on the Bill and it's contents and breaches!

This matters to EVERYONE in our country! If you're Māori this is about our LITERAL existence, if you're Pākehā, tauiwi, tangata Tiriti this concerns you because Tiriti is what gives you the privilege of existing on this whenua! The Waitangi Tribunal has already said this Bill will be the biggest Waitangi breach ever. YOU have a responsibility to do something.

ACT, our coalition government, and the Ministry of Justice have been intentionally keeping this bill under the wraps. Mad mihi to the MoJ analyst who leaked that draft though (I'm sure they got sacked if not massive repercussions).

What we know so far is that Te Pāti Māori, Green Party, and Labour WILL NOT be voting for this and that ACT, NZ First, and National WILL be voting for this tomorrow. NZ First and National have said that they WILL NOT support this Bill after its first reading so it will go to Select Committee and then die at first reading.

National and NZ First have said they'll only support this Bill to first reading (thankfully) but there is always the chance of closed door promises & favours and we still need to advocate for this disgusting bill to die.

I'll post more about submissions when they open for Select Committee but I'm happy to help answer questions or help with that and the process.

But the racist idiots to email and drill in that you DO NOT want this Bill are...

ACT MPs

1. David Seymour (Email: David.Seymour@parliament.govt.nz ) (the one bigoted brain cell behind this bill)

2. Brooke Van Velden (Brooke.Vanvelden@parliament.govt.nz)

3. Nicole McKee (Nicole.McKee@parliament.govt.z)

4. Todd Stephenson (Todd.Stephenson@parliament.govt.nz)

5. Andrew Hoggard (Andrew.Hoggard@parliament.govt.nz)

6. Karen Chhour (Karen.Chhour@parliament.govt.nz)

7. Mark Cameron (Mark.Cameron@parliament.govt.nz)

8. Simon Court (Simon.Court@parliament.govt.nz)

9. Parmjeet Parmat (Parmjeet.Parmat@parliament.govt.nz)

10. Laura Trask (Laura.Trask@parliament.govt.nz)

11. Cameron Luxton (Cameron.Luxton@parliament.govt.nz)

AND

- Prime Minister Christopher Luxon (Christopher.Luxon@parliament.govt.nz)

- Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters (Winston.Peters@parliament.govt.nz)

If you're able to participate with any part of the hīkoi please do and please be safe!!!!

Toitū te Tiriti! Ake ake ake!

[sapphia]

Can I get more info about what's going on in nz? I watch global news regularly and nothing about this has come up and I find this highly disturbing.

we elected a neoliberal nightmare of a government who are destroying our health system, water system, ferry and rail system, environment and democracy for profit. people are literally dying in hospitals because there is no doctor in hospitals in multiple rural towns and they just have a consultation on an ipad. the government are trying to frame Health NZ as having a budget deficit of 1.5 billion when in reality that deficit exists because they provided like 3 billion dollars with of tax cuts they couldn’t afford. National cuts spending to health every time they get in government and the disjointed DHB system has been unable to keep up financially with the growing population and health needs.

i personally have just been FUCKED by national as for the last two years i have been navigating our labyrinth of a health system, not working due to being intensely suicidal, trying to find therapy to get better and there just isn’t any available. so i payed for a private autism diagnosis to try and access funding for therapy through the ministry of disability and also get under their umbrella because they actually treat you like a person there and also don’t actively seem to want you dead like they do in the mental health system. but the process took so long that by the time i got my diagnosis and through the referral system, national had yoinked the funding and deemed that therapy will no longer be covered by the disability funding system. all therapies. for disabled people.

oh also they’re like trying to start a race war or something as both minor parties in the 3-way coalition government are trying to negate the Treaty of Waitangi in law, and they’re also attacking the judiciary and had to be told to stop by our attorney general, who they ignored obviously.

our prime minister answers every question with “i say to you” followed by just a literal lie, they’re all just lying through their teeth, i literally have an OIA request about when David Seymour, our deputy-PM-in-waiting (don’t ask) said that preschool education needed to be reviewed because they were being prevented from teaching phonics. they’re not. someone just expressed concern that that might be happening to him, and apparently he is basing government policy on that?? or at least using it to falsely justify it to the nation.

their ideas are all bad and disproven by evidence-based studies, despite their slogan being “we’re going to make evidence-based decisions”. New Zealand has hit a funding wall where we’ve kicked the can too far down the road on like everything and it’s all starting to collapse at once and this government are not only letting it happen, they’re actively helping it along because they’ve all got shares in private rival companies or mates they want to give contracts to (our former national PM got paid insane money to write an insanely biased report attacking our ministry of social housing) or they’ve had their careers helped along by lobbying firms or they want to work for lobbying firms after they leave parliament.

the speaker of the house (who is right now being accused of not dealing with racism within his own party because of course he isn’t, he’s gerry fucking brownlee, the most hated man in christchurch) has allowed lobbyists unprecedented unrecorded entry to parliament. the minister for conservation keeps “forgetting” to write his lobby dinners in his diary. one of them told an mp “he’s not in mexico anymore”. no one is getting in trouble for this shit while the left are being raked over the coals. there’s like so much more. no one can keep up. and nothings being done about it.

tldr; help

[drinkjanola]

i’ve just heard christopher luxon say “morena” and it was damn near the most unnatural thing to come out of his mouth ever

[nixs-thoughts]

~Aotearoa, New Zealand Election 2023~

I know National are going to get in this election, and as a disabled person with disabled loved ones, I'm stressed. Affording basic necessities is already really difficult, and we all know National don't give a single fuck about the people struggling the most.

[snootyfoxfashion]

hey if you're in new zealand fucking go vote yeah?

[octisticsopinions]

Christopher Luxon's gang patch policy is irresponsible and will lead to increased racism against Māori.

Christopher Luxon plans to give the cops power to break up gangs and make wearing gang patches an offence. But what counts as a gang patch? What proof of gang membership do the cops need to break up groups? The cops are already proven to be racist against Māori. "Gangs" are already a racist dog whistle used by the right against Māori. Giving the government this power gives the cops another excuse to target Māori.

Can we really trust Aotearoa's cops to identify specific gang patches from a distance? This policy could very well lead to cops targeting anyone who wears anything that sort of looks like a gang patch. Unless all cops have an extensive knowledge of gang patches, an eagle eye, and good morals, this policy is ridiculous.

Certain cops will have different ideas about what counts as a "gang". There are people who will call any political cause they disagree with a "gang". This policy could empower cops to intimidate or even break up groups of antifa, queers, anti-racists, etc. This policy could be a tool of political suppression.

Christopher Luxon's a dickhead who does not belong in government.

[chomesuke]

just uploaded my voting enrolment form and now i just need confirmation and then I can go out and vote!

[yeltsinsstar]

National Party admits using AI to create fake photos for political attac...

Of course it would be National using fake imagery in their political ads, its par for the course for them. As for potential copyright infringements, National has a long history of those during previous election campaigns, just ask Eminem and his lawyers.

[andromedasummer]

bro are any drivers from new zealand gonna like. come help with the cyclone cleanup. or even donate some money. we were in a state of emergency. people are dead. thousands are missing. entire towns are buried in silt and cut off. peoples houses are just gone. every other athlete in every other sport we compete in are showing up to help clear out houses or donate things or help fix roads. one of you went on a rant about nz covid restrictions and retweeted our most right wing party. another one of you was born in the city that was hit by the cyclone.

[thewater]

(new zealand edition) i remember my mum telling me that the national party is by business owners for business owners. that they only look out for the rich and throw the poor to the trash.

now my parents have worked themselves out of poverty, and live comfortably. guess who they voted for last election.

i remember adults telling me, as a kid, to listen to doctors and get my flu vaccine and any shots i could because they remembered Before.

then they started fighting Covid precautions.

i remember adults telling me, as a kid, that the ozone was disappearing and the earth was dying and we needed to recycle and save the planet.

now my parents think climate change is a myth.

i remember adults telling me, as a kid, that racism was a plague, that we had to love and accept everyone, that we should never judge before walking a mile in their shoes.

then they told me that protesting for my Black siblings was wrong.

i remember adults telling me, as a kid, that we needed to give to the poor. working at soup kitchens. making quilts. collecting food and money and supplies. building houses. because it was the christian and just plain right thing to do.

now they look at me, on food stamps with their grandchildren, and lament the "welfare state".

i remember adults telling me, as a kid, that it was easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven and that any rich man, especially an immoral one, should never run our country.

you can guess who they voted for.

i remember adults telling me, as a kid, so very much.

when did they forget?

[pxrewhxi]

The Coalition Government will do more harm than good

The Coalition Government (National, ACT, and NZ First) is rallying for catastrophic legislative and social change in Aotearoa New Zealand. Here's two examples of how:

Lawmaking under urgency

Ever since their 2023 win, the Coalition Government have promised (and recently completed) an intense 100-day plan that focuses on objectives over a wide range of areas, including: education, health, employment, and justice. However, much of these legal changes were established under urgency.

Under urgency refers to an action wherein a Government is able to forego the usual lawmaking norms by either shortening the time for debate on legislation or skip over the submission of public views on proposed bills.

On 8 March, 2024, Marc Daalder (a senior political journalist based in Wellington) reported that the Coalition Government have set a new record for "laws passed under urgency in first 100 days." Only days later, on 12 March, 2024, it was confirmed that the Coalition Government has passed a total of 14 bills in seven weeks under urgency. The average is 10 bills over an entire term.

Here is a list of some of the bills the Coalition Government have passed under urgency (as of December, 2023). Including the repeal of the Fair Pay Agreement—a bill that aimed to protect employees by ensuring that unions and workplace associations could fairly "negotiate terms and conditions for all covered employees in an industry or occupation."

Undeniably, the use of urgency this frequently is not normal.

Lawmaking in Aotearoa NZ is supposed to be a months-long process (sometimes even years) wherein bills are debated and challenged. While certainly not the most time-effective, our lawmaking norms ensure proposals have been considered from numerous perspectives. By eliminating this process, the Coalition Government has introduced a plethora of laws that lack the critical insight of our wider parliament—and have proven that their 100-day plan was completely unachievable within the boundaries of our usual democratic processes.

Te Tiriti o Waitangi

Under the Labour Government (and even, in part, the John Key National Government) race relations between Māori and Pākehā have improved considerably. The gradual integration of Te Reo Māori (the Māori language) and te Ao Māori (the Māori worldview) into education, healthcare, government departments, and public signage have broadened the scope of tolerance, understanding, and empathy between our two peoples. For the first time in centuries, many Māori (myself, included) felt as though we were seeing positive change across all areas of our livelihoods.

However, Coalition leaders David Seymour and Winston Peters have other ideas.

In November, 2023, RNZ reported that Te Tiriti o Waitangi/Treaty of Waitangi will come under review. In particular, how the Treaty's principles are interpreted and integrated into legislation. And despite its many flaws, Te Tiriti is one of the few constitutional documents in the world that promotes partnership and collaboration between an indigenous community and the descendants of European settlers—or as we know it: co-governance. However, this proposed review is looking to eliminate co-governance outright, and override the Treaty with a Treaty Principles Bill. Below are the new principles the Coalition Government (ACT, in particular) would introduce instead:

All citizens of New Zealand have the same political rights and duties

All political authority comes from the people by democratic means

New Zealand is a multi-ethnic liberal democracy where discrimination based on ethnicity is illegal

Although seemingly innocent at a first glance, ACT's proposal is problematic in two major ways.

Firstly, Te Tiriti and its current principles inform how the public service can support Māori citizens through legislation and policy. For example, the Waitangi Tribunal and select committee inquiries discovered that hegemonic health policies were "failing Māori." One of the reasons identified for this was because there was "no sufficient mechanism for Māori to systematically contribute to decisions about services and delivery." As a result, in 2022, the Labour Government established the Te Aka Whai Ora/Māori Health Authority. Te Aka Whai Ora was established with the intentions to improve Māori health outcomes by designing Māori-centric strategies and policies. However, now, we don't even have that.

Secondly, by reinterpreting the Treaty and removing the unique space Māori hold from the principles, the Coalition Government are effectively erasing all the historical grievances between Māori and Pākehā. We can't just pretend Parihaka, the 1975 Māori Land March, the Land Wars, and other similar conflicts didn't happen. Just as Māori have to take responsibility for the rampant violence within our own communities, Pākehā should not be shielded from the shameful violence their ancestors perpetrated against us. Yes, it's uncomfortable. Yes, it will challenge your worldview. But it happened. And whether we like it or not, we can't just forget. Forgetting leads to harmful cycles that are repeated over and over again.

Let us, as a country, learn from the mistakes of our ancestors.

[mayasaura]

did you see te pati maori declared independence??

I DID NOT! Holy shit! Thanks for the news!

Okay, now reporting back from one research deep-dive, the recent context as I understand it is this:

Last November, a conservative right-wing Prime Minister, Christopher Luxon, assumed office. He's got a lot of less than stellar right-wing policies, and that includes making cuts to the Ministry of Social Development and opposing co-governance with the Waitangi Tribunal and other Māori leadership organisations over the administering of public services such as education, health, and infrastructure. He's been openly critical of Māori seats in Parliament, though he hasn't (yet) opposed them. Over the course of his administration, there's been an initiative to omit or cut mentions of the Treaty of Waitangi, the foundational document of New Zealand that forms the basis of arguments for Māori protections, from official language.

Which brings us to yesterday, May 30th. Budget Day. The day the new administration would announce their first budget and a day of mass action for supporters of te Pāti Māori protesting the treatment of Māori under the new government. I don't have any concrete numbers, but RNZ reports thousands of protestors, while the NZ Herald estimates "tens of thousands" turning out nation-wide, and a walking protest that delayed rush-hour traffic in Auckland for hours.

You may have already guessed that the budget was Bad. As I understand it, the budget effectively cut any kind of targeted funding for Māori health or education, and decreased funding for Māori cultural festivals and celebrations. And again, I cannot stress enough how much I am not an expert on this topic, so there's probably a lot more in there I don't know about.

In response to the new budget, Māori Party MP Rawiri Waititi issued a Declaration of Independence to the New Zealand Parliament, (video of his speech in link) with the support of his fellow te Pāti Māori co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer.

There doesn't seem to be any concrete plan in place yet for the organisation of the new Māori parliament, but MPs Waititi and Ngarewa-Packer met with protestors to collect signatures for the Declaration, which they plan to bring to a hui taumata (meeting of congress) today, Friday, May 31st. The text of the Declaration can be found on te Pāti Māori website, in the form of a petition. You do not have to be Māori to sign, but I believe you do have to be kiwi.

[octisticsopinions]

CHRISTOPHER LUXON BOMBED ON THE DEBATE LMFAOOO

Did you know for every agricultural regulation introduced the national party plans to TAKE AWAY TWO?

Does anyone actually fucking agree with national or are they all losers who think Christopher Luxon is going to end critical race theory or some bullshit like that