General Debate 31 October 2026

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Yvette

NZ First deputy leader Shane Jones defended his party’s policy to abolish the tribunal, arguing the institution had strayed from its original purpose and needed to be subject to democratic scrutiny.
https://newsroom.co.nz/2026/10/30/treaty-health-funding-and-te-reo-spark-fiery-clashes-at-kaupapa-maori-debate/

Shane Jones should be aware that the Tribunal was established to launch ‘kaupapa’, or topic-based inquiries – current breaches of the Treaty – and had been in existence a decade before a change to hearing historic settlement cases back to 1840. It is an explanation as short as the previous sentence that is the difference between Jones speaking with knowledge and authority – or not.

What I, as an Accidental Racist, detest about Maori issues is duplicity – that heir élite should rule while their majority are at the lower end of most social measures, the argument that being here first has any merit, when by age I have been here longer than many of them, kereru-Minglish in media, and the vast push of language and culture and rewritten history in education.
Shane Jones (the supposed Maori Shakespeare) does not help by adding his two cents to that.
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October 31, 2026 8:12am
- mike
  
  What history has been ‘rewritten’, bearing in mind that history is always being rewritten?
  
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  October 31, 2026 8:52am
Benedict Yu

“New Zealand’s wokest PM is heading to Australia’s wokest uni”

This is an excellent critique of the University of Sydney, and of Jacinda Ardern.

“And the opportunity to ‘learn from Dame Jacinda’ is not exceptional at all: not, at least, in a university that long ago threw out its historic devotion to truth and reason; that celebrates those who would quickly tear down what our civilisation painstakingly built up; and that champions nonsensical mediocrity over steady devotion to scholarly excellence.”😅

https://ipa.org.au/latest-news/new-zealands-wokest-pm-is-heading-to-australias-wokest-uni?utm_source=perplexity

Read it. It will brighten your 🌞 day.
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October 31, 2026 8:21am
kevn

‘woke’… a generous assessment/description. Of both.
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October 31, 2026 8:46am

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