As well as stopping the pernicious plot by stealth to convert the governance of New Zealand to 50% control by a coterie of Maori extremists and their Pakeha Marxist followers under their He Puapua Plan, we need to call a halt to changing the name of our country to Aotearoa,
Having been deeply interested in politics since my first encounters with Keith Holyoake in Pahiatua in 1948, and active in the National Party since 1960 after our return to Wellington from living in (then Western) Samoa for seven years, I now reflect on New Zealand’s political history. It has
This week, I venture into two matters metaphysical, albeit with feelings of trepidation that they may be beyond my intellectual pay grade. But here goes: The two fields are: ancestry (especially as it relates to Maori tipuna/tupuna) and the importance of correctly interpreting words. ANCESTRY In trying to better
Cards on the table at the outset: last Saturday morning, this in the Weekend Herald gave me a gutsful. It led to me emailing colleagues in an email chat group, saying: Murray Kirkness is a bloody hypocrite with his mendacious “Proudly Independent” claptrap on Herald on-line republishing rot from The
Eliza Doolittle sang about her exasperation with Freddy and Professor Higgins in My Fair Lady. Words! Words! Words! I’m so sick of words! I get words all day through;first from him, now from you! Is that all you blighters can do? Now it is me and I’m
There have been some writings in recent days about Critical Race Theory (CRT) and how it might affect New Zealand under the spectre of the current government’s stealthy plot to saddle our country with the divisive co-governance system laid out in the He Puapua Plan. What is Critical Race
For those of you who share my unconditional love for our country and deep concern for its future direction, and may be enduring the boredom of Covid lockdown, I have an immediate remedy: get on-line now and place an order for the book, “National Identity” by Hon Simon Bridges. The
Inspiration for this week’s column comes from six essays I’ve come across in the past few days. Together they have strengthened my resolve to do whatever little I can to put the earliest possible end to the lasting harm to our national health and well-being, to our cherished
These past few days haven’t been kind to stirrers like me, either at local or national level. And in asking myself “Why?”, I end up with four words, all ending in the letter Y: arrogancY, bureaucracY, incompetencY, and finally, apathY. I’ll get on to these four words shortly,
It pains me to say this, but someone has to: while it’s good that the National Party has unveiled a billboard campaign aimed at the public headed “DEMAND THE DEBATE”, this coming weekend I will be at our Annual Conference and General Meeting, where at the time of writing
In this week’s column, I crave your indulgence as you follow my convoluted thinking toward an agreeable alternative to the separatist plot being revealed in what we have been told so far, about this Labour Government’s He Puapua project. I’m taking it for granted from responses I’
Prelude: Today’s column has been sparked by an article in the New Zealand Herald by Bruce Cotterill, which is a must-read for everyone dedicated to a peaceful, orderly future for New Zealand. (It’s behind a paywall, but well worth the price). In essence, after discussing all the changes
In an overdue but very welcome display of action in defence of our New Zealand democracy and constitutional framework, the Judith Collins-led National Party has launched a campaign entitled: “Demand the Debate”, targeted initially at the He Puapua alternative system of governance that the Labour Party is endeavouring to inflict
If you have to rely on what passes in New Zealand these days for the mainstream news media, you will have missed during this last week two tidings of great woe for our country. Firstly, a seasoned author of children books and common sense commentator on current affairs, Amy Brooke,
If that prince of essayists Charles Dickens were alive in New Zealand today, he might well have written “A Tale of Three Estates”, as a 21st century update of his peerless Tale of Two Cities. In that novel he wrote of a French nobleman escaping from Paris on the brink
Events of the past few days evoke the question not whether this Labour government has lost the plot, but whether they ever had one to start with. Especially since being unexpectedly catapulted into government in 2017 through the spite of utu-driven NZ First leader Winston Peters, who blamed National Party
