FSA review: strong panel, broad terms, quick
The government has appointed three very eminent and well-respected persons to the panel which will review the Foreshore and Seabed Act 2004, has granted them broad terms of reference, and has imposed a...
View ArticleSymbolic bidding war?
I have long defended the māori party’s decision to enter government with National on two grounds; The decision is theirs to make on behalf of those Māori who form their constituency, not the decision...
View ArticleIdentity is more than class
Marty mars, commenting at The Standard, nails down the problem with Eddie’s and IrishBill’s latest bit of anti-māori party propaganda in one brief sentence: You cannot fix any class issue until the...
View ArticleBrogressives and fauxgressives
Chris Trotter doesn’t want to debate, which is good, because there’s really no point to it – his arguments and mine are at cross purposes because we differ on a key point: whether support for...
View ArticleHōiho trading
So much of Labour and the economic left’s criticism of the māori party and its conduct in government with National is little more than the howling of self-interested Pākehā angry that the natives...
View ArticleForeshore and Seabed — indigenism, ‘One Nation’-ism, and internal division
In the first few days of July I began writing a post about the report of the Foreshore and Seabed Review Panel. Due to absurd busi-ness* I never got it finished. Since the government has this week...
View ArticleGoff is the new Brash
Perhaps this speech is an attempt by Phil Goff to reclaim the term and concept of “Nationhood” from the clutches of rampant colonialism. If so, it is an abject failure. It compounds Labour’s cynical...
View ArticleInsensitive and hypersensitive
In the Insensitivity and hypersensitivity paper I referred to previously, Raymond Nairn and Timothy McCreanor studied submissions to the Human Rights Commission in response to the Haka Party Incident...
View Article“The many, not the few”
This is the theme of Phil Goff’s State of the Nation speech today, according to early coverage. And would you look at that: it’s even up on their website. It’s a sound speech full of bread-and-butter...
View ArticleBrief, subjective reflections on the Tino Rangatiratanga flag
In January and February 2008 my wife and I did a road trip the length of the country, twice — from Wellington to Bluff, back to Wellington, up to Cape Reinga, and back to Wellington again. For most of...
View ArticleFalse mean
I never get tired of this cartoon. It reminds me what being a Sensible Moderate™ is not at all about. The latest proposal for the foreshore and seabed is PC gone mad — put it in the public domain, but...
View ArticleBetween the Devil and the deep blue sea
(Image, “Road to Hell”, stolen from Alexander West.) And I did not mean to shout, just drive Just get us out, dead or alive The road’s too long to mention, Lord, it’s something to see Laid down by the...
View ArticleWhat changed for the Iwi Leadership Group?
So the māori party has accepted the government’s Foreshore and Seabed Act repeal proposal. As I posted the other day, the Iwi Leadership Group, chaired by Mark Solomon, was dead-set against the...
View ArticleNot dark yet, but it’s getting there
(Image, “Allan’s beach at dusk, Dunedin, New Zealand”, stolen from Nicola Romanò) The Foreshore and Seabed deal is not over yet, at least not as far as Hone Harawira is concerned. He has come out...
View ArticleResponse to Phil Sage on the FSA
Phil at No Minister has written a long and pretty useful post on the background and consequences of the FSA and its coming repeal, titled Customary rights, free access and the beginning of the end for...
View Article‘Come back Helen Clark, all is forgiven’
Thus spake John Ansell, who’s back with another cracking demonstration that he’s the nation’s pre-eminent racial fearmonger. He really is peerless in this regard. And there’s plenty more where that...
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