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9 hrs agoLiked by Grant Duncan PhD

National is under pressure from its members on this. You can’t hunt with the hounds and run with the fox forever and National party members agree with Brownlee. But then doing away with the Maori sears has been Party Policy for years and totally ignored by the leadership. “Too divisive” doesn’t actually wash when you listen to Jackson and watch the haka party. I prefer the Scott Joplin version. There’s a time and a place and the haka is for marae and footy fields. And gang funerals. There a majority which is over this. We’ve been pushed away - divided - but not gone on the rampage to show it. Time the Luxons of this world got that message. Ignore Bolger, Key and Shipley - Shipley helped destroy a company and can’t even buy a house which doesn’t leak - and either pass the Principles Bill or get on with the NZF Principles Removal Act and pass ACT’s Bill as a Fundamental Law. Kia Kaha!

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Might have read better if I’d typed seats . Didn’t even spell seers correctly! It’s the seats which need to go.

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7 hrs agoLiked by Grant Duncan PhD

Lets start with the first elephant in the room. All evidence from 1840 and the continued actions of both parties of the Treaty from 1840 to fairly recently back up the evidence that Maori did cede sovereignty and they Knew exactly what that meant when they signed the treaty.

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Oh look, more fact-free disinformation. The sort of rubbish we are going to get every day for the next six months. Not going to be enjoyable.

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6 hrs agoLiked by Grant Duncan PhD

https://www.ketebooks.co.nz/en/book/9780473515249

This person has researched facts and concludes that Māori did cede sovereighnty

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4 hrs agoLiked by Grant Duncan PhD

Jack Vowles has a useful contribution to this on The Conversation. It’s pretty clear - he quotes Kawharu - that the chiefs ceded authority to the Crown. Hardly fact free but let’s see what evidence Riddell produces. It surely is the elephant.

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3 hrs agoLiked by Grant Duncan PhD

Traditional political constituencies of ‘Left’ and ‘Right’ have been disrupted for 2 or 3 decades but are now getting themselves unscrambled. What we are witnessing is the progressive ideologue minority collected together on the ‘left’, and everybody else finding themselves (with considerable surprise) having common cause on the ‘right’. Obviously this is not just a New Zealand phenomena. As the ideologues, together with their elite allies in the civil service, judiciary, media and educational establishments are returned to their proper supporting roles in our community, the real issues of housing, health, education and welfare will come back to the fore.

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Has anyone got any data on the number of young New Zealanders who have left the country over the past five years or so and their reasons for doing so? Maybe it is an alternative to voting for a government of any ilk that fails to recognise their existence, let alone their voice and needs.

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Stats NZ would have it. And you'd need to balance with the skilled immigrants. Given the US experience, the latter won't simply line up behind the left on the assumption that somehow they're kinder immigrants.

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