General Debate 03 September 2026

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Yvette

How New Zealand’s left block political parties intend to shaft Kiwi citizens by returning New Zealand back to Mari. But on the other hand, how the right block intends to shaft the left block.

Labour Party
⚬ Provide over $20 million annually in funding for Māori trade training.
⚬ Cap public transport fares.
⚬ Offer free doctor’s visits and free prescriptions to ease financial pressures on Māori communities.

Green Party
⚬ Enshrine the Te Reo Māori text of Te Tiriti as legally authoritative over the authentic English version
⚬ Implement treaty-based decision-making across all levels of government.
⚬ Grant the Waitangi Tribunal binding powers, particularly regarding land restoration to Māori.
⚬ Rewrite laws to ensure Māori have an equal say in national governance.
⚬ Support Te Pāti Māori in creating a separate parallel criminal justice system based entirely on Tikanga.
⚬ Establish a ring-fenced Māori legal aid service for property disputes.
⚬ Assist Te Pāti Māori in legally entrenching the seven Māori electorate seats.

Te Pāti Māori (The Māori Party)
⚬ Promote Māori self-determination and indigenous rights.
⚬ Repeal the Electoral Amendment Bill and reinstate voting rights for all prisoners.
⚬ Halt the abolition of Māori-focused state departments.
⚬ Introduce tax policies aimed at heavily reducing costs for whānau.
⚬ Make Māori eligible for bowel and cervical cancer screenings 10 years earlier than the rest of the population.
⚬ Create a dedicated Māori-only health card.
⚬ Establish a dedicated Māori parliament to govern indigenous affairs independently of the Westminster system.

The Opportunities Party (TOP)
⚬ Implement a Citizen’s Income / Universal Basic Income (UBI) to provide financial security for whānau and Māori communities.
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ACT Party
⚬ Actively campaign against race-based co-governance, holding that civic rights must be identical for all citizens.
⚬ Push for a national referendum to redefine the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi.
⚬ Remove laws, health metrics, and government departments that differentiate citizens based on race.
⚬ Ensure all policy applications are based strictly on identical treatment and economic need.

New Zealand First
⚬ Advocate for a referendum on or the outright abolition of dedicated Māori parliamentary seats.
⚬ Redirect public spending directly to infrastructure and health rather than race-based departments.
⚬ Remove race-based criteria and government departments to ensure all citizens are treated identically under the law.

National Party
⚬ Implement a “no new taxes” pledge to lower living costs for all struggling households regardless of ethnicity.
⚬ Deliver public service support based strictly on socioeconomic need rather than ethnicity.
⚬ Target lower inflation to reduce everyday costs such as rent, fuel, and groceries.
Source: Whangarei Tim.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sro74IBRkR4

The above may not be all inclusive. Please feel free to add any omitted policy.

Also please consider the outrage that the Left indulged in because they interpreted David Seymour and ACT’s as intending to alter the Treaty, and what the Left propose here doing to it
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September 3, 2026 8:01am
- Nikola Donatello
  
  “Create a dedicated Māori-only health card.
  ⚬ Establish a dedicated Māori parliament to govern indigenous affairs independently of the Westminster system.”
  
  So we sink into the abyss.
  
  Eventually the Greens and the Maori Party will be in government.
  
  It pains me, but I would encourage any bright graduate or even a bright tradesperson, to pack up and leave.
  
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  September 3, 2026 8:25am
  - cmm (semi-retired edition)
    
    I have no objections to a Maori only health card and a Maori parliament.
    
    So long as it is all funded from Maori-only taxes.
    
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    September 3, 2026 8:39am
- lastmanstanding
  
  I fear the increase in the OCR will be the death knell for the Government. Their only path to victory will be if the Maori Party gerrymandering fails and Opportunity fails to top (pun intended) 5%.
  However.
  1. The Opporunity MPs will be inexperienced and ill disciplined and run off to the MSM if they dont get their way.
  2. If as on current polling the Green/Opporunity/Maori portion of the Lefts total vote is close to Labour the Toxic Trio will demand the comensurate number of seats around the Cabinet table denying some hopeful Labour MPs.
  3. The Toxic Trio will demand a comensurate say in policy.
  4. Take Tax. In addition to Labours CGT they will demand it be extended, demand a Wealth Tax, Land Tax, increases in Income Tax, Company Tax and Trust Tax rates plus Death Duties and Gift Duties. Labour will have to concede to at least some of their demands.
  4. A Four Headed Hydra will not stay in one piece for the term. I suspect it will fracture at some point and the electorate will punish all four Parties as a result.
  
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  September 3, 2026 8:59am
artemisia

Labour signs pledge to extend living wage to all state sector workers

Lovely jubbly. Just a small point though. There are a lot of NEETs and other unemployed folk out there looking for jobs, or are supposed to be looking. How many NEETs applying for entry level state sector jobs are going to be assessed as worth Labour’s proposed pay rate?

Back in the day, when the ‘living wage’ was a new thing, The Treasury reported that its main beneficiaries were young people living at home and government revenue. And does anyone remember that the first annual update of the ‘living wage’ reduced the calculation because it was unacceptably high?

Completely coincidentally, headline in the Herald today …economists fear we’re living beyond our means. Article paywalled.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361028417/labour-signs-pledge-extend-living-wage-all-state-sector-workers
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September 3, 2026 8:11am
artemisia

Former Children’s Commissioner Claire Achmad … After unsuccessfully applying to continue, Achmad was replaced by Jane Searle this month. Achmad said she had “not been given any specific reason as to why I wasn’t reappointed”, something she described as “really disappointing”.

There are always reasons. And always people who don’t see them coming.

https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/national/claire-achmad-on-unfinished-business-as-children-s-commissioner-jane-searle-outlines-frontline-focus/
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September 3, 2026 8:12am
cmm (semi-retired edition)

Last night I had a bit of a scratch around the disaster of Vietnamese crime in NZ.

We all know Maori crime levels are out of control with about 0.7% of the entire Maori population in prison (4% if you zoom in on males 20 to 30). That’s a shocking 1 out of 25 20-something men in prison that would me more than double that (ie. around 10%) if prisoners served full sentences.

But Vietnamese are giving that a “hold my beer”, as has come to light in recent activities.

There are thought to be over 200 Vietnamese involved in illegal operations such as cannabis grow-houses and such. Many of these thought to be trafficked in some ways (overstayers, those working illegally etc and being forced to work for reduced wages etc).

Since there are only around 14000 Vietnamese in NZ, that would put the offending rate at about 1.5% of the entire Vietnamese population. That’s double Maori incarceration rates (which is, of course different to Maori offending rates).

Now obviously most Vietnamese are not involved in crime (just as most Maori are not), but that’s an awfully large number of rotten apples in the barrel.
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September 3, 2026 8:36am
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Chris Hipkins claims that Labour’s oil & gas ban had no impact on Methanex closing, and by implication, no impact on gas reserves availability in New Zealand. He explains that:

“New Zealand hasn’t had a significant find of new natural gas for over 20 years. The oil and gas ban didn’t change that reality,” he said.

“The oil and gas ban hasn’t been in place under this Government, and they still haven’t found more gas. The reality is, they spent 20 years looking for gas, billions of dollars drilling holes that didn’t have gas at the bottom of the them.”

Firstly, if there is no gas, did you need the ban? Why not stop with the silliness of reinstating it, if you are so confident?

Secondly, these “billions” have been spent by experts in the hydrocarbon industry, based on their view that the benefits outweigh the risks. It is their money (theirs and their shareholders). What do you, Chris Hipkins, know that these experts don’t?
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September 3, 2026 8:51am
- burt
  
  This is on Jacinda.
  
  Remember her, she’s the flakey one who wanted to virtue signal to the world how green she was talking up the risks of sea level rises.
  
  Of course that was before she ran away and purchased a sea front property in Australia.
  
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  September 3, 2026 8:58am

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