Pākehā birds and freedom in death
March 3rd, 2012 at 11:38 am by David FarrarA friend just reminded me of a section of new Green MP Holly Walker’s maiden speech. I’ve blogged in the past that I think Holly will be a very good MP and advocate for her beliefs. But that doesn’t mean I won’t have fun highlighting when she competes with Cath Delahunty to be the most fervent Ngati Pakeha in Parliament.
In Holly’s speech she said:
Mr Speaker, at this point it is appropriate to acknowledge the amazing kākahu that rests on my shoulders tonight. It was woven by long-standing Green Party member and leader Danna Glendinning over 22 months, under the guidance of kuia at Te Rau Awaawa in Hamilton, and gifted to the party at a powhiri in January. This incredible taonga is woven from the feathers of Pākehā birds
How is a bird a Pākehā bird? What makes a bird a Pākehā? What birds are Maori? Are some birds asian?
Does she mean a Pākehā bird is a non-endemic to New Zealand bird? Or does she mean a Pākehā bird is a non-native bird?
I’ve never heard a bird referred to as a Pākehā before. It is somewhat ironic as some say that the term is derived from “Pa-Kea”, a long nosed bird that was often found in the pa.
including caged battery hens, who have found a freedom in death in this kākahu that they never had in life.
A freedom in death? Remind me never to give Holly an enduring power of attorney over me 
My idea of freedom doesn’t include being made into a cloak!
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March 3rd, 2012 at 11:42 am
Mental hospitals are full of people with these kinds of delusions.
Vote:March 3rd, 2012 at 11:47 am
Cuckoo, cuckoo.
Vote:Another Luddite showing profound signs of mental insanity. Why are we surprised?
March 3rd, 2012 at 11:56 am
I’ve blogged in the past that I think Holly will be a very good MP and advocate for her beliefs.
Why will she be a good MP just because she has beliefs?
As Kowtow says there are loonies everywhere who are very sincere in their belief that their teapot has conversations with them.
Holly Walker , another list idiot proving already to be a waste of fucking money.
Vote:March 3rd, 2012 at 11:59 am
I agree with DPF for a change, she will be a good MP.
Vote:March 3rd, 2012 at 12:09 pm
PaulEast: Spot on…as I have said here before, one of the few funny things about the Greens is how derisively their (particularly Delahunty’s) attempts to be “more Maori than Maori” are treated by the real ones in the Maori and Mana parties. On one one level it’s screamingly funny; on another there is something simply sad about being cringingly guilty about being a member of the “wrong” race.
I would be most interested in hearing how either DPF or Mikey have formed the view that this pakeha apologist nut job will be a “good MP”. Have either or you met the woman? Has she done anything in the past that gives rise to your view?
[DPF: Yes have met her several times. Seen her debate on Backbenches, and handle public meetings]
Vote:March 3rd, 2012 at 12:10 pm
Just what New Zealand needs another fuit bat nutty head case in parliment,if it wernt so sad you could laugh.
Vote:March 3rd, 2012 at 12:11 pm
This epitomises the Greens – irrelevant miscellany mooted as notable substance to our parliament.
Vote:March 3rd, 2012 at 12:12 pm
Why yes, David I have met her actually. Have you?
Vote:March 3rd, 2012 at 12:28 pm
I see she wears the regulation green stone around the neck, if only a smaller version to that of the co leader’s. I guess as you work your way up the pecking order in the Melons you get to hang a bigger stone around the neck, it probably means you just fuller of shit.
Vote:March 3rd, 2012 at 12:30 pm
Ngati pakeha are as funny as fuck, easy to tell them from a glance, they are the ones’ wearing an enormous carving.
Vote:March 3rd, 2012 at 12:43 pm
grumpold–whatever: Well, well, you and I on the same side for the first time…When Delahunty was speaking…I dont know whether you would call it pigeon English or pigeon Maori – I used to watch not her, but the members of the Maori Party and other Maori members….although she was bleeding all over the floor for the suffering of what she invariably called tangata whenua at the evil hands of “tangata tiriti”, the Maori members never took a blind bit of notice. Parekura sometimes had an indulgent smile on his face…
Vote:March 3rd, 2012 at 12:49 pm
What was Holly Walker, MCing her own fashion show?
Were her shoes woven from free native flax and the soles beaten to emulate leather?
Did she manage to drop her quota of Maori words for the day to appease her guilty pakeha soul?
Get into the kitchen woman and make the man some fry bread.
Vote:March 3rd, 2012 at 12:52 pm
Actual Maori probably imitate her when they’re at home eating spag bol.
Vote:March 3rd, 2012 at 1:01 pm
Cows4me @ 12:28
And when they get thrown out of the party they get a bloody great millstone around their necks and an invitation to a nikki nikki nanna smimming event in a remote bush swimming hole somewhere in the Coromandel.
Vote:March 3rd, 2012 at 1:02 pm
Problem is that loonies and their cohorts can be dangerous to others.
Vote:She has all these traits – we will see in 2014.
March 3rd, 2012 at 1:03 pm
Wahine: Isnt it “Make me some f…n eggs” ??
Imagine going to bed every night agonising over what your dreadful ancestors might have done…if you did that Wahine you’d never get a night’s sleep!
Vote:March 3rd, 2012 at 1:09 pm
David, I would have been left out on the slopes of the Pa awaiting the next raiding party I’m sure… I can hear the arguments now… take her! … No bloody way bro! She’s likely to boil the eggs and shove them up my …. well anyway!
Vote:March 3rd, 2012 at 1:32 pm
Wahine: surely you are not suggesting that in traditional Maori society – when the men weren’t practising haka, making nice carvings and tending to the kumara – women were told the STFU and stay in their place? And those accounts (funnily enough all entirely consistent) by early pakeha writers regarding the treatment of female taurekareka can’t be true…can they?
By the way, how DID those “pakeha” early chroniclers of “Maoriland” who were from different countries, writing years apart all manage to collude together to paint an entirely false picture…without the telegraph, much less the internet?
Vote:March 3rd, 2012 at 1:42 pm
Oh come on David, you know it’s a pakeha conspiracy. Now atone your sins and hand over your 4wd bro as means for atonement.
Vote:March 3rd, 2012 at 1:59 pm
Sheesh…. talk about **earnest!**
Vote:I dropped into the blog of another Green MP the other day. She referred to her ethnicity as “Tangata Tiriti”. Oh, how handwringingly, sickeningly liberal.
You can almost smell the liberal guilt oozing from her pores.
March 3rd, 2012 at 2:09 pm
Our airwaves are full of this nonsense too. Where has it come from, you know the insistence on Oh Ah Maru, Toe Paw etc and yet the locals in those places can’t pronounce their own town names “properly”.
Vote:March 3rd, 2012 at 2:36 pm
Who Else but the education System (which is over run by these useless sick whiteys).
Vote:March 3rd, 2012 at 2:59 pm
Kowtow: There, I’m afraid I diagree with you…if we have MAORI place names – and most of our place names outside the major cities are – its entirely reasonable to expec them to be pronounced properly. The fact that we have been mispronouncing them for years really is no excuse.
thor42: ALL the pakeha Green MP’s describe themselves as “tangata tiriti”…hand wringing guilt is part of what they all sign up to…as well as unquestioning blind faith in anthropogenic (is that the right word??) climate change, and a number of other articles of faith…and to hell with any evidence that might not fit!
Vote:March 3rd, 2012 at 4:06 pm
Pakeha birds are quite common in NZ.
Despite what Grumpy once claimed on my behalf they are in fact the only birds I have ever shagged.
Vote:March 3rd, 2012 at 4:38 pm
DG
While the place names are Maori we are speaking English and therefore should pronounce those places in English.
When we say Paris we say “Paris” as opposed to saying Paree cos we is speaking English, not French,
It used to be the same with the African country Niger. It was always Niger( Nigh ger) but I notice broadcasters now using French and saying Kneejeer,if you get my drift.
or Hong Kong in English but heung gong in Cantonese.
Vote:March 3rd, 2012 at 4:44 pm
I just love Pakeha birds…..after all, I married one.
Vote:March 3rd, 2012 at 4:46 pm
Dead right kowtow.
I always go out of my way to pronounce names correctly in my native tongue hence Wackertain, Kaiworraworra, PetOne, and Wangaray.
If wanted to speak in the indiginous tongue I would have joined the other 0.00000000000000000000001% of the Earths population and learned it!
Vote:March 3rd, 2012 at 5:53 pm
kowtow: I know the point you are making re Paree….but I do believe it is a wee bit different here because the Maori WERE indeed here before us (Just not 40,000 years before, as Hone and the Nuts claim) named a lot of places, and we still use those names…Anyway…it’s not an issue I want to die in a ditch over…
The other thing is there are in fact many dialects of Maori…I always found it hugely amusing that Tariana Turia was big on the “H” in Wanganui even though in her dialect it is not prounced “f”…but whatever, there are much more important issues…
Vote:March 3rd, 2012 at 6:41 pm
Jeez, DPF, you really do have some hardcore racists among your commentariat.
I know it is your blog to do as you choose with, but surely a gentle warning to the likes of johnboy would be appropriate.
For the record, as a Pakeha who has fought strongly for recognition and observance of Te Tiriti, I have been gifted a huge and very lovely pounamu. But I hardly ever wear it because of the negative reaction my wearing it gets from the likes of some of the dickhead commenters on this thread.
I would rather debate real political issues than be stereotyped according to what I may be wearing around my neck. As I know Holly would.
Vote:March 3rd, 2012 at 6:47 pm
Feel free to wear it whenever you next go swimming toadie old chap!
Vote:March 3rd, 2012 at 6:47 pm
Toad
I’m sure your greenstone would go lovely with your hand knitted cardy and sandals, be proud and wear it you big shelia.
Vote:March 3rd, 2012 at 6:52 pm
Ypu are wasting your breath toad. Those guys don’t believe they are racist – they are just against Maori ‘privilege’, whatever that means.
Vote:March 3rd, 2012 at 6:55 pm
Anyway. What have I said that has so offended you Toadie?
It’s true that I have only shagged Pakeha birds and I can only speak English hence pronounce foreign words with an English inflexion.
Some fellows are just far too sensitive!
Have you been on the skunk?
Vote:March 3rd, 2012 at 6:59 pm
Toadie being gifted with his Greenstone:
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March 3rd, 2012 at 7:01 pm
…”Ypu are wasting your breath toad”……
When the plant huggers & apologists stop ramming Maori propaganda down our throats at every opportunity we’ll revisit the problem.
Vote:March 3rd, 2012 at 7:07 pm
@mikenmild 6:52 pm
Yep, I Know that. Just giving them the bait to further expose themselves, as several have already done.
Vote:March 3rd, 2012 at 7:11 pm
Quite the little agent provocateur aren’t you Toadie.
Unlike your good self I have never been ashamed to expose my huge, solid as rock, appendage whenever I deemed it appropriate.
Vote:March 3rd, 2012 at 7:13 pm
And I’m sure that got the laughs it deserved when you did…
Vote:March 3rd, 2012 at 7:15 pm
Are you reduced to becoming Toadie’s toadie Milky?
I had expected better from one such as yourself.
Vote:March 3rd, 2012 at 7:18 pm
“Jeez, DPF, you really do have some hardcore racists among your commentariat.”
And you, as a supporter of a party that takes identity politics to the extreme, are probably the worst.
Identity politics, as practised by the ‘Greens’, is worse than racism.
Vote:It not just mimics racism but is an more insidious and deceitful kind of racism, pitting one group against another based on ethnicity, race, gender, nationality etc.
You lot are so ‘race conscious’ you put everyone else, including the biggest racists, to shame.
March 3rd, 2012 at 7:21 pm
“Pakeha bird” doesn’t make sense. Presumably it refers to sparrows and the like which are introduced species, but the problem with that idea is that humans are an introduced species too. Maori aren’t Pakeha are they? Perhaps they are from a Moa’s point of view…
Stupid term.
Vote:March 3rd, 2012 at 7:24 pm
Geeze. That’s pretty deep Scotty.
Unintelligible mind you!
Maybe you should share your skunk with Toadie.
Vote:March 3rd, 2012 at 7:30 pm
Sorry, Johnboy, I’ll try harder with my next joke about your appendage.
Vote:March 3rd, 2012 at 7:31 pm
The Green political party contains some contemptible people. Without pride in their heritage, their forbears or their culture the cringing apologists shuffle nervously through life licking arses & issuing apologies for being born.
They’re shit on the shoes of New Zealanders.
Vote:March 3rd, 2012 at 7:32 pm
Whatever you do don’t crack a joke about Toadie’s appendage Milky.
He is very sensitive about you know.
I would be too if mine was green!
Vote:March 3rd, 2012 at 7:36 pm
I think what frightens some people about the Greens is that they actually have some ideas. Labour are pretty much stuck in an outdated paradigm and National really only just want the status quo to remain and things to be quiet. Greens would actually changes things, if they could, so some would find that scary.
Vote:March 3rd, 2012 at 7:37 pm
I guess your not a bloke that has nailed Te Tiriti to your living room wall then nasska?
I hope you haven’t punched a hole through the corner of it and hung it in your littlest room.
Vote:March 3rd, 2012 at 7:42 pm
No what really frightens us about the Greens Milky is that it makes us realise that dementia can strike down even semi intelligent chaps and chapesses seemingly in the prime of life.
Vote:March 3rd, 2012 at 7:47 pm
Johnboy
How did you know? I use photocopies all the time. It seems to help me get the job done & afterwards I get to colour in the blank bits.
Vote:March 3rd, 2012 at 7:51 pm
Which version do you find performs best when one is suffering from a surfeit of vindaloo nasska?
Vote:March 3rd, 2012 at 7:57 pm
@mikey,
Not at all. It is the nature and the consequences of their changes that people find scary:
- Higher taxes
- Higher costs on businesses
- Return to subsidies stifling economic growth and continued innovation
- Reduction in specialisation (particularly a reduction in our greatest competitive advantages – farming, agriculture, fishing and forestry (felling thereof, they don’t mind the planting))
- Reduction (more likely moratorium) in mineral, oil and gas exploitation
- A shift away from intensification (leading to either a reduction in production – they are ok with that – or the use of more land – not ok with that (unless it is for organic farming of course – somehow that is different even though it reduces the carbon sink))
- Increased govt spending (which, in the current climate, means more borrowing as well as higher taxes)
The consequence is, of course, economic contraction and living standards dropping. (Of course, as long as the two ends of the spectrum come closer together, the drop in average is of little consequence to the Greens.)
There is nothing quite so disingenuous than the Greens talking about “increasing revenue” – which most people think means growing the economy, but to them really just means higher taxes.
Vote:March 3rd, 2012 at 8:06 pm
Johnboy
I find that the more modern translations have an absorbent quality. They have the added attraction of political correctness & a compensation factor that has to be experienced to be believed.
Vote:March 3rd, 2012 at 8:07 pm
Careful bhudson not to much truth at once they’ll blow a poo poo valve.
Vote:March 3rd, 2012 at 8:24 pm
I concur completely nasska.
The best thing about the modern treaty though is that when you have completely covered it in shit on one side you can turn it over and start again.
I have even heard that if you apply appropriate future legal technologies to the grotty side that too will be able to be reused again.
Truly a remarkable document!
Vote:March 3rd, 2012 at 8:32 pm
Johnboy
The depth & coverage are unequaled. Nothing was excluded, from hoki to MP3. Truly time travellers & even Nostradamus could learn much from a race capable of negotiating such a far reaching document.
Vote:March 3rd, 2012 at 8:49 pm
I’m fairly certain Captain Kirk kept a copy near the Enterprise’s helm in case his star log had a outage nasska.
It’s well established that the Maori institutions use Romulan cloaking device’s particularly in the vicinity of Serious Fraud Office investigations.
Amazing how a stone age people can have such advanced technology.
What can one say other than ‘Live long and prosper’.
Vote:March 3rd, 2012 at 10:00 pm
As far as I am concerned the term ‘pakeha’ should be banned from use and I damn well mean it. These damn apologists should pack their bags and head for the ureweras .Go live in a tent.
Vote:One of the biggest problems we have in NZ today is people like DPF who pander and fawn over this unintelligible crap.
These new age MP’s are appalling and are just perpetuating the myths of those involved in the gravy train bs.
The word beginning with ‘p’ is a bloody insult to me .It certainly has nothing to do with ethnicity.Ban it!
March 4th, 2012 at 12:01 am
toad says: “….I have been gifted a huge and very lovely pounamu. But I hardly ever wear it because of the negative reaction my wearing it gets from the likes of some of the dickhead commenters on this thread.”
Really? Given that your dual leadership comprises an imported self confessed communist and a former member of the McGillicuddy Serious Party [who campaigned on sending out intelligence agents around the world to wipe New Zealand off published maps, thus ensuring that no-one could invade the country], I’m surprised that you’d have any worry at all about perceptions and possible reactions from anyone. Quite simply, you’d be immune to it.
Besides, I’m not sure that the contributors to Kiwiblog are likely to frequent the same locations and events as yourself so if you received any “negative reaction” it would most likely come from within.
So if you want to hang a piece of jade around you neck / get a tattoo band around your arm / put a bone through your nose or whatever, then it really won’t matter – we’ll all still laugh at you anyway.
Vote:March 4th, 2012 at 8:27 am
Spacehead
Vote:March 4th, 2012 at 8:40 am
Spoon!
Vote:March 4th, 2012 at 9:42 am
It isn’t the pakeha birds that piss me off. It is those damned Abo ones. There are scores of cockatoos in my valley and they make a damned racket every time they fly over the house.
Vote:March 4th, 2012 at 9:47 am
But the ones that I really hate the most are the bar-tailed godwits. They claim to be Tangata Whenua birds but really are Tangata Alaskan. Fucking things should all be sent back to where they came from. I am sick of the trash of the northern hemisphere coming down here.
Vote:March 4th, 2012 at 9:58 am
Did anyone actually establish what a “pakeha bird” was?
Vote:March 4th, 2012 at 10:08 am
adze… I don’t believe it was, but you can bit all the maori birds will be chirping… “it’s the pakeha birds fault!”
Vote:March 4th, 2012 at 10:10 am
I think Holly Walker pretty much fits the bill. So to speak.
Vote:March 4th, 2012 at 4:50 pm
Most of the world is multilingual, so all you monolinguals reading wont understand that the language here is used to explain things, no more, no less.
A pakeha bird differentiates from native birds which all have maori names. a citreon is a french car, pizza is an italian kai, birds brought by pakeha are pakeha birds, so whats the big deal. likewise you have maori schools…while schools where you learn te reo pakeha are pakeha schools, for the kids sitting over in the maori school. u have maori tv and pakeha TV (pakeha tv, ironically, is dominated by pakeha from england).
no biggie.if you hang out with pakehas all the time you probably wont be exposed to these ideas.
Vote:March 5th, 2012 at 12:25 am
‘I dont know whether you would call it pigeon English or pigeon Maori’
Probably neither, old boy. Are you writing in pidgin Garrett?
Vote:March 5th, 2012 at 3:02 pm
Thanks Papatu that is indeed what I meant by “pakeha birds”. The cloak is pretty amazing if you ever get to see it. Haha awesome, David Garrett called me a “pakeha apologist nut job.” I must be doing something right.
Vote:March 5th, 2012 at 3:10 pm
That would be a bird that isn’t a native bird, wouldn’t it? Not too hard. As per Papatu (excellent) comment above.
Vote:March 5th, 2012 at 3:14 pm
That’s an astonishingly broad, bold statement for you of all people to be making, now Mr Garrett.
Surely I don’t have to mention *that* passport…?
Vote:March 5th, 2012 at 3:36 pm
I was happy to answer Garrett’s question. We have still to find out whether he has met this MP…
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