In a Herald interview, back in 2006, Auckland University’s Professor Elizabeth Rata warned, “The bicultural, Maori-Pakeha movement in New Zealand has been a mistake – it is subverting democracy, erecting ethnic boundaries between Maori and non-Maori and promoting a cultural elite within Maoridom.”
She explained, “Many New Zealanders originally supported Maori retribalism because they saw it as a means to much greater social justice. In fact, the opposite has happened – that group of poor marginalised Maori is in the same position now.”
The move towards greater social justice for native peoples originated in the 1960s in key universities around the world. Influential academics argued that the best way to improve lives was to bring ethnic group leaders into government institutions, to change the system from within.
According to Professor Rata, those changes, which were backed by a small political and academic elite, were extremely ‘subversive’: “Biculturalism is threatening democracy. You get inside a system and subvert it. Destroy from within.”
In those early days, radical Maori Sovereignty activists, heavily influenced by resistance movements from around the world, adopted revolutionary strategies for New Zealand. Their goal, ‘to take back the country’, was outlined in a series of inflammatory articles published in the feminist magazine “Broadsheet” in 1982:
“Maori sovereignty is the Maori ability to determine our own destiny… In essence, Maori sovereignty seeks nothing less than the acknowledgement that New Zealand is Maori land, and further seeks the return of that land… The aim of Maori sovereignty is… to redesign this country’s institutions from a Maori point of view… This country belongs to Maori…
“At its most conservative it could be interpreted as the desire for a bicultural society… biculturalism meant acknowledgement of Maori sovereignty, of Maoritanga, of our land and language… an all up return of all our land and the setting up of institutions to ensure Maoritanga as the culture of this country and the Maori language as the official language… A new identity based on Maoritanga must be forged.”
By the early 1980s, moves were already underway within our state sector to introduce biculturalism and define New Zealanders by ethnicity. Biculturalism became a lever to force Maori language and culture onto the country and create institutions that prioritised Maori.
In his 1985 book Shadows Over New Zealand, former communist Geoff McDonald revealed how Maori Sovereignty propagandists were using Marxist strategies to influence politicians and the public:
“Marxists understand that the key to destabilising New Zealand is to show how badly the Maori is treated by the whites. The big lie must be built up, until enough people believe it to enable the damage to be done. There is no Maori oppression at all. But that would not stop them from going ahead with their propaganda. Facts or truth have no relevance to Marxism. Anything can be said to help create the conditions amenable to the collapse of society. However absurd or grotesque the charges being made against white New Zealanders, if they are not answered then they will be believed.”
And that’s exactly what happened.
The bicultural movement in New Zealand has created a dangerous state of separatism. It dominates New Zealand politics and deeply divides our society. The mantle of tribal totalitarianism is oppressive – it drags us back to a re-invented past, instead of enabling our multicultural society to go forward and flourish as one.
And while the blame for this dangerous situation rests squarely on the shoulders of the self-obsessed separatists striving for tribal control, it is the appeasement policies of successive governments that have allowed it to happen.
New Zealand’s key institutions have been ‘captured’ – to serve Maori above all others. That includes the public service and wider state sector, local government, the media, even the justice system, which is now elevating ‘tikanga’ or Maori custom above the common law.
Organisations like the New Zealand Geographic Board are systematically changing our country’s English placenames to Maori without any regard to community opposition.
The education system is indoctrinating young minds, denigrating our pioneering history by feeding children a diet of false narratives about colonial oppression and Maori victimhood.
The Waitangi Tribunal has been radicalised to promote Maori supremacy and condemn every attempt by our democratically elected Government to implement a policy agenda mandated by voters.
This week’s NZCPR Guest Commentator Dr John Robinson, a research historian and analyst, believes New Zealand is now at a dangerous juncture:
“Across the world, over many millennia, people have learned how best to live together, in a decent society where all share a common feeling of belonging to one larger community – in sovereign countries, unified and living together as equal citizens.
“Such ideals, basic to a decent society, do not apply in New Zealand, where there is inequality and racism in law… That separation by race, with the resultant considerable privileges, is written into law… New Zealand history has been rewritten with never any fault committed by Maori…
“The priority claimed for the Treaty of Waitangi has become a key weapon in the fight for power. It has been rewritten and then proclaimed a sacred text, immutable, to be followed religiously and not to be challenged. The only valid text is held to be that in Maori and the only arbiters to determine the meaning of the text are those Maori activists; none other have any authority. That trickery, and this revolution – a process aiming for the overthrow of government – must be recognised and negated with a firm and determined counter-revolution.”
Dr Robinson has set out a prescription to restore democracy and enable New Zealand to become a ‘decent society’: “All reference to Maori in law must go. There should be no Maori seats and wards; all should vote together on a common roll. The completely compromised Treaty of Waitangi must be removed from all legislation, and the Waitangi Tribunal closed down immediately by government, which has that power – and that responsibility.”
The reality is that, until now, successive New Zealand Governments have lacked the courage to stand up to the aggressive threats and bullying demands of tribal leaders.
In the 1980’s they persuaded Labour to fund Maori immersion education – early childhood Kohanga Reo and Kura Kaupapa State schools. We can now see the effects as their graduates gain influence.
The new Maori Queen is a product of that system – as journalist Richard Harman explains: “The new Kingitanga monarch, Kuini Nga Wai hono i te Po Paki, aged 27 and educated at a Te Reo immersion Kura in Huntly and then the University of Waikato, where she got an MA in Tikanga Maori… will be someone the so-called Kohanga Reo generation of young Maori will be able to quickly identify with.
“In an interview with TVNZ’s ‘Re News,’ while she was visiting Britain in 2022, she made it clear she felt the scars of colonialism. ‘My heart was heavy when I arrived here because I saw how vast and abundant the land is here. So why did they have to come to Aotearoa to steal our land, to murder our ancestors and grandchildren, to confiscate our resources, and for what reason?’ She said all the stories and historical accounts continued to leave her feeling hurt inside. ‘To be honest, my greatest desire is for all Maori land to be returned to Maori’.”
In 1985, tribal leaders persuaded Labour to extend the jurisdiction of the Waitangi Tribunal – set up a decade earlier to investigate contemporary breaches of the Treaty by the Crown – to cover historic claims that had already been settled, resulting in the creation of a $4 billion Treaty gravy train that’s still growing.
In 1993, they persuaded National to re-introduce Maori Seats, even though the Royal Commission on the Electoral System had expressly recommended their removal if MMP was introduced. They warned if they were retained, they would create a serious over-representation of Maori in Parliament.
They were right – Maori now hold a disproportionate 27 percent of the Parliamentary seats, in spite of making up only 13.7 percent of the voting-age population.
In 2005, they persuaded Labour to change the law so tribal business corporations could register as charities and avoid paying tax – even though the benefits flow to relatives instead of the wider community, which should have ruled them out.
A TDB Advisory report on the 2023 iwi rich list shows Ngai Tahu and Tainui are now valued at $2.2 billion each, Auckland’s Ngati Whatua is worth $1.6 billion, Ngati Toa $795 million, Tuhoe $406 million, Ngati Porou $298 million, Ruakawa $238 million, Ngati Awa $180 million, Ngati Pahauwera $101 million, and Ngapuhi, which is still to negotiate a treaty settlement, $88 million.
In 2011 tribal leaders persuaded National to replace Crown ownership of the foreshore and seabed with a law to enable Maori claims. As a result of the judiciary mis-interpreting the law to enable claimants to gain control of New Zealand’s entire coastline, the Coalition has announced they will restore the law to what Parliament intended. Until that occurs, doubts about the future will remain.
In 2020 they persuaded Labour to adopt their blueprint for the tribal control of New Zealand by 2040, and as a result, He Puapua policies for Treaty partnerships and co-governance have been embedded into the nation’s legislative and regulatory framework.
Driving this tribal rule agenda was Labour’s Te Arawhiti – the Office of Maori Crown Relations that was set up to work in partnership with iwi leaders. By the time of the 2023 general election, they had systematically established a controlling influence for Maori within the state sector.
This is what the Coalition is now battling.
While their latest move of issuing a Cabinet Office Circular directing public services to be delivered according to need not race – and scrapping Labour’s racist procurement policy requiring eight percent of Government contracts to go to Maori providers – is a step in the right direction, to ensure these policies cannot be reversed by future governments, all references to race and ethnicity must be removed from our Statute books.
What is incomprehensible is that the Coalition has left in place key public service directives issued by Labour to entrench He Puapua. These include a Cabinet Office Circular dated 22 October 2019 setting out guidelines to empower Maori as Treaty ‘partners’ in government decision-making, and a range of indoctrination programmes that are still being delivered by Te Arawhiti.
These should surely be suspended as a priority.
The radicalism and division of State funded biculturalism has become a handbrake that’s not only holding back our country and constraining our future but is threatening the unity that binds together our diverse society.
Every attempt by the Coalition to remove racial privilege is being strongly resisted by hostile tribal leaders, who are using their wealth and influence to preserve their gravy train.
Meanwhile extremists have stormed the parapets and entered the House of Parliament, radicalising the Maori seats at the heart of our democracy.
The only way to prevent a tribal takeover is to give New Zealanders their long-overdue say on the future of Parliament’s Maori seats. Given the seats are now seriously distorting democratic representation in this country, its time voters decided whether they serve a beneficial purpose or should be scrapped – as recommended decades ago by the Royal Commission.
Since councils are holding binding referenda on local government Maori seats in October next year, why not hold a referendum on Parliament’s Maori seats at the same time.
Will the Coalition pick up on this challenge?
Biculturalism has been a colossal mistake. A policy introduced to help disadvantaged Maori has fuelled an ambitious takeover attempt by mega-rich tribal corporations aggressively seeking to dominate the Government and control the country.
The Coalition is attempting to rein them in, but they will not succeed unless the framework for tribal rule that’s been created is dismantled. That means removing race and the Treaty from legislation, disestablishing the Waitangi Tribunal, and abolishing the Maori seats.
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THIS WEEK’S POLL ASKS:
*Should a referendum now be held on the future of Parliament’s Maori seats?
*Poll comments are posted below.
*All NZCPR poll results can be seen in the Archive.
THIS WEEK’S POLL COMMENTS
| absolute rubbish. Should have gone out with MMP along with a reduction in the number of pigs in the trough..only need 50-60 to run our tiny country | ian |
| As soon as possible. They are an affront to democracy | Jim |
| Yes. In my view “co governance” is simply apartheid. | Margaret |
| YES> Otherwise, New Zealand becomes a divisive tribal backwater with internal bickering with the compliments of weak yet well rewarded politicians! | Stuart |
| Absolutely they are racist as well | Greg |
| One people, one nation, one type of parliamentary seat. | Robert |
| I really do not understand how The PM when he says that the majority of people do not agree with the “Treaty Principles Bill”. He really is not reading the room – What is wrong with politicians – what are they afraid of. I want us to be one family, if you have property then it is yours, nobody owns the Foreshore And Seabed, or the water be it from the heavens or rivers or anywhere else that natural things come from. Please let there be someone out there who wants to get involved with politics to grab this Country that I love by the scruff of the neck and shack some sanity into its Governance. | Steve |
| Drain the swamp of the lot of them.Unless democratically elected. | Justin |
| God help us if they don’t. | David |
| Should have been abolished under MMP. | Rod |
| seats in parliament according to race must go. | steph harrison |
| Finally – what I have always known has been made public. | mike |
| Yes, but it is a two-edged sword! The Maori seat votes if redistributed are likely to be heavily left | Peter |
| If held at the 2026 election, and passed, removal would still only happen at the 2029 election. | Gordon |
| Not necessary – being elected is a privilege not a right. Therefore: Any part-maori should follow the democratic process and be elected on merit | sandra |
| It is time we all realised for the benefit of all, we are one people and all work together. | Fraser |
| We are all human beings and should be treated equally. RACE should not be a preference to the detriment of the rest of the population. | Jean |
| The destruction of NZ is well underway. Maori are not benefiting only Maori elite. In the meantime, democracy of one person one vote is being abused and those who have made an industry of ticking boxes and receiving money. it is corrupt. everything by | Margaret |
| This has gone far enough…I want to take a stand but honestly don’t know how to go about it! | Cath |
| We should be one nation, not divided in our parliament by race. We are an amalgamation of races so one can’t be given preference over another | Sharon |
| YES ! Absolutely! Keep lNew Zealand for ALL New Zealanders, Not Aotearoa!!! | Rayner |
| one country one people | brian |
| if such a referendum can be used to show how this process needs to be reversed, and we will have just one society across the country. | Hugh |
| We must try to get everyone to see that equality is there, but not by race | Peter |
| They need to go. There are no full maoris in NZ, only mixed with other ethnicities. | Ann |
| A referendum on just the future of Maori seats does not go nearly far enough. Despite the fact the Maori seats were only introduced as a temporary measure only, they have infact increased in number. Luxon and the coalition Govt really need to grow a spine and properly deal to the disgusting Maori lies and their grab for power. | Greg |
| Hell yes. This type of question and answer for nearly every poll from NZCPR is disarmingly the same, to get rid of apartheid race based policy. Here’s one of 3 updates from the coalition’s Treaty’s Principle Bill,”Rights of Hapu and Iwi Maori: The Crown recognises the rights that hapu and iwi had when they signed the Treaty. The Crown will respect and protect those rights. Those rights differ from the rights everyone has a reasonable expectation to enjoy only when they are specified in legislation, Treaty settlements, or other agreement with the Crown”. Looks like the present government are entrenching apartheid into NZ law | lary |
| It was a recommendation made in relation to the introduction of MMP. It needs to be done NOW! | Roger |
| Like yesterday | Roy |
| As soon as possible. This divisive system must Stop! | Sylvia |
| No argument! | John |
| The time has well passed as to talking about this..action is definitely needed NOW otherwise we as a country with the diverse population we now make up, is desperately in need of action to stop the tribal rot. Waiting for things to change will not suffice. This needs to be addressed NOW! | Robyn |
| 100% all references to Maori in legislation MUST be deleted | Gareth |
| A binding referendum will tidy up disagreement caused by interpretation clarifying of the T.O.W. it is the biggest cause of disruption between colonials and saveges. of modern Occupierers today. If left worse will come. Their greed raineth. | mike |
| These race-based seats put New Zealand in breach of the UN International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Articles 2 and 25 in particular. | Trevor |
| they are well past their use by date | Les W |
| The longer we have Apatite, the longer we will have racial problems. | Ross |
| The damage to race relations in New Zealand caused by the Ardern Government will take years to repair and any attempt to repair it will be resisted strongly by those on the gravy train. | John |
| Any further delay in facing the crises will make the task nigh impossible. | Roger |
| Cabinet has a percentage of people claiming Maori descent that is above the percentage of such people in the population. The crutch of the Maori seats is not justified or required. They should go. | Peter |
| Absolutely, There is no place for apartheid and racism of any kind in New Zealand. | Richard |
| Separation based on race has no place in a multicultural society. | Tony |
| Yes – and the sooner the better – this is long overdue! | Scott. |
| But there must be uncensored discussion of how Marxism has influenced NZ politics New Zealanders need to be educated on what it means to be a free human being before the Referendum takes place. | Anne |
| Urgently | Norm |
| Asap | Michael |
| There is no time to waste, New Zealand is fast approaching becoming a failed state. Why should a majority lose their country to a racist minority? The people must be allowed to speak. | Geoff |
| Absolutely no need for these separate seats in parliament. Absolute racism to the extreme. | PETER |
| Bin the TOW | Boris |
| These seats should have been abolished back when the referendums were being held on MMP. | Wayne |
| The present distortion created by separate Maori seats must be eliminated. | John |
| Definitely. HOWEVER who is going to decide the wording. Maori have a place in New Zealand. and they should not be swallowed up in the morass of Politics | Frank |
| Absolutely | Murray |
| Not needed for maori representation | Gary |
| The least the political weasels should do for the nation of New Zealand but it won’t happen like the removal of the rave and religion references. It’s despicable, how those weak white stupid people let this all happen. Wondering why the educated and skilled people are leaving but luckily we replace them with a different culture needing our housong and social services. | Leonard |
| Should have been had decades ago. | Gary |
| If we are a true democracy | Veronica |
| They are a relic which is abused | Bruce |
| If we dont they will. | Garth |
| No just cancel / abolish them . A referendum is a last resort weak way out just to preserve face for Government. We are about equality of citizenship as clearly MANDATED in the ToW and unity – and unity will not happen without the equality of citizenship regime being insisted on and enforced as the without which NOT mandate the ancestral Maori Chiefs signed up to .. FULL STOP . | Hugh |
| Long Overdue!! Should’ve been eliminated many years ago | Tony |
| Absolutely. | Jane |
| Time to end race based politics and move forward as New Zealanders | Steve |
| Who controls the cheque book controls the narrative, who controls the narrative controls the country. | Sven |
| Absolutely | Jim |
| of course. | Leon |
| Why, when the comments I read in this newsletter reflect exactly what I have independently concluded is happening, do the majority of non-Maori NZs not see what I see. Why have ‘our’ people betrayed us? I feel we are lambs going to the slaughter. Hypocrisy of the week : RNZ Headline “Rangatahi Maori launch musical assault on the plague of colonization” vs the touchy feely reports and photos of Black Ferns hugging King Charles – the absolute symbol of colonization. Were they not the same team that staged those provocative and confrontational hakas ? Come on NZrs… open your eyes. : | Heather |
| Absolutely. They should never have been expanded. It has done nothing for unity in this country. | Mark |
| soon | John |
| but who will listen? | wally |
| Let’s become a “one country” with all people as a “one” nation. | gerard |
| it is essential. The Coalition should just go for it and get it all done | Andrew |
| The Maori seats are well past their use-by-date. We must restore democracy and racial unity to New Zealand. | Grant |
| definitely, the sooner the better. | Henk |
| Please, before we self destruct as a multi racial country. | Janette |
| An unbalanced waka will not survive a storm. | Henk |
| We are one people not a Maori Apartheid State!!! | David |
| It is time that All NEWZEALANDERS remain EQUALS before the Law of the land. No special favours should be given to any race!!! | Dominique Greenslade |
| A binding Referendum is the only way for Democracy to seriously survive in NEW ZEALAND .One nation one people.Success for all !!! | Michael Andrew |
| Well overdue, along with abolishing the Waitangi Tribual | Daphne |
| always should have. | evans |
| Absolutely. And the Treaty and any references to it should be burnt. We are all immigrants. Maori immigrated. European immigrated. As did all our new citizens. Maori are lucky to be alive. Just ask the Tasmanian Aboriginals. | TC |
| Long overdue. | Steve |
| We are departing so far from democracy that we need to worry about becoming a failed state as witnessed in tribal Africa. | Cluve |
| Prefer they were just removed but I realise that wont happen. | Antoni |
| Racial policies are dividing this country. The Treaty clearly states that we are all one and equal under the law. Maori ceded sovereignty and agreed that they would be ruled by govt. | Carol |
| ASAP | Chris |
| Hell Yes!! Lets sort it out now! | Ron |
| If not too late | Howard |
| They are passed thier use by date, there is more maori representation in mp than thier percentage of the population, even without the maori seats | Alec |
| A referendum I could get behind (unlike ACT’s proposal) and would parallel the referenda local authorities are required to hold if they wish to maintain Maori wards | Michael |
| The world has lurched far to the left. Facts no longer matter. Everything is feelings based. Added complications are that young folk deem it necessary to fight for other groups of people to which they don’t belong arrogantly assuming they need to rescue them to achieve some kind of social justice. The left have used this to grab more power than ever before. Moderate centrist politicians run scared of having emotive labels attached to themselves and therefor become basically useless. Ironically the group that will feel the eventual impact of all this the worst are the ones fighting for it. I’m sure they will regret it. Meantime, I appreciate people such as yourself fighting this but I worry it’s all for nothing. | George |
| The same rights and duties for every one | Gavin |
| Of course | Matt |
| Had a gutsful of the mongrels and pakeha pretenders. All my Maori friends are great people and do not need this. Sick and tired of jibber jabber being pushed down our throats along with hakas. | chris |
| There is no longer any need for Maori seats in Parliament. Every person of voting age has equal voting rights no matter what race they are. This is Democracy, where race, gender and social status make no difference. | Gifford |
| It will create the debate and whether they create value or not to our overall wellbeing as a nation | John |
| Long overdue. | Darren |
| Kiwis need to stand united – as one nation – for one nation – no preferential treatment. Dont let the government divide us. We have our own unique culture. We.are.all.Kiwis. | Chrysta |
| One person one vote, not representation by race or culture. | Merv |
| Definitely the sooner the better | Donald |
| Could do with a referendum on whether New Zealanders want a democratic, colour blind government with all racial policies removed. About time we all had a say on the future direction of our country. | Lee |
| Totally agree, however in today’s climate of maori everything, it would never get off the ground. Both major parties are shit scared of Maori. | Peter |
| Now | Wiremu |
| Absolutely yes! Hold a referendum on the future of Maori Seats. So many Maori in parliament in addition to the Maori Seats proves that our democracy is working and that there is no need to compensate Maori. | Robyn |
| The sooner the better. Get rid of it!!!! | Michael |
| They cannot be done away with fast enough, Maori have proven if you give them one inch They will take a mile. Our weak, corrupt and foolish politicians will never do this, l believe this country is gone. | Paul |
| A society such as NZ, with vast ethnic representation, needs to see a clear playing field where all are treated the same and with fairness. The pushy Maori elite have been able to shove their way into the top spots by either influencing naive politicians, or by stand-over tactics like bully boys from the bodgey era, where councils who were signalling their intenion to vote out the Maori wards were surrounded by aggressive Maori at the voting table. Such matters are not the way proper democractic proness should be worked in this country. John Key started the mischief by allowing Tariana Turia and Peter Sharples to travel to the United Nations to have their indigenous status ratified. The trouble with that is Morioio were the indigenous race in this country well before Maori arrived. It is also objectionable to see Maori students with lower achievment levels in exams getting graded upwards to insure they obtain the required leverage into academic institutions. (Medical students for instance from non-Maori backgrounds are disadvantaged by this unfortunate ‘assist’ and leg-up to Maori). There is no fairness whereby a non Maori gains 81% and rightful entry to medical shool, whereby a Maori with perhaps a 76% test score, later gets that mark upgraded to 82%. The upswelling of that students test score made easy under current legislation inserted by Maori to make sure they are also included in the numbers gaining academic entitlements, sees a number of elligble non-Maori students lose out despite scoring the required grades. This divisive policy must be stopped. If these matters are allowed to carry on unchecked in NZ, we may fall back in the eyes of the developed world, perhaps to a status held by Zimbabwe under the rule of law pushed across that country by the late Robert Mugabe. Might we enter a point in 2040 where Maori start taking back land that they perceive as their own. This would create a very nasty situation and it’s not an unlikely outcome, especially given the new Maori Queen’s views on matters of stolen Maori land. They want that land back — and by hook or by crook I fear they intend to do just that. | John |
| New Zealand is in serious trouble. Thank you Muriel and John Robertson and the many others who are keeping these issues highlighted. Why is the coalition failing democracy and the people of NZ? | Sam |
| The Maori ward seats had become redundant when the franchise was granted to all citizens in the late 19th century. It was political cowardice that they were not abolished with the electoral commission advice with the introduction of mmp. A referendum is truely needed. | Willy |
| They should have been gone long ago. They now give Maori disproportionate advantage, they are an anachronism but loved by the greed of Maori who consider themselves ‘special’ and need ‘special treatment | Carolyn |
| Bit late for that to happen now….it won’t, LUXON just BACKED DOWN,,,,,,AGAIN !The MAORI COMMUNIST SYSTEM is NOT DEMOCRATIC it’s TOTALITARIAN. | David |
| They are a 19th century anachronism. | Alister |
| My long term misgivings about bi-culturalism have come to pass. I have lived in China, where might equals right, and many social grievances result, making for a disenchanted and fractured society. I regard it as a certainty that if tribal rule is again permitted in this country, social turbulence will escalate due to behaviour based on might equals right rather than egalitarian justice based on democracy and the rule of law. Tribal trends must be stopped !! | peter |
| Yes, a referendum needs to be held and from the result, Maori seats must be abolisged, | Frank |
| I think too late. The genie is out of the bottle. Australia beckons. We should have a referendum on the payment of reparations to Maori on actions 150 years ago which of course nobody in the country was party to. Those are essentially your taxes that are commandeered undemocratically. The Waitangi tribunal is also undemocratic. They think they are the final word on any payment and have been challenging and deliberately misconstuing Government intention. Their existence should be also voted on under referendum. | Terry |
| Of course it should but will Luxon have the fortitude and commonsense to actually do what his forebears in Parliament’s big chair should have done ages ago when MMP came in? | Doug |
| I would say no, meaning the referendum was last election. Get rid of them. | Andrew |
| The completely compromised Treaty of Waitangi Acts and Statutes must be removed from ALL legislation, and the APARTHEID Waitangi Tribunal closed down immediately by government, which has that power and that responsibility, PERIOD. | neil |
| Yes and do it now – it’s long overdue. | Wendy |
| Absolutely! A referendum is long overdue. The radicalisation of the Maori seats is bringing the whole of Parliament into disrespect. They are past their use-by date and should be abolished. | David |
| Didn’t Winston Peters promise a referendum on the Maori seats in 2017 and then renege? This is his chance to put things right! | Murray |
| All three parties of the coalition have promised referenda on the Maori seats at one time or another. Now is their chance to do it. And if they introduce it in October next year, if voters want them abolished, they will be gone at the next election. | Pauline |
| Yes, yes, yes! Bring it on! | Hugh |
| The Maori seats should have been abolished when NZ adopted the universal voting franchise in 1893. There is no rationale for keeping them except for those wanting a taxpayer funded base for their radicalism and attempts to over-throw the government! | Fred |