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In a new book titled He Puapua – Blueprint for breaking up New Zealand, mathematician John Robinson, tears apart the He Puapua plan for two separate governments, one by Maori for Maori, and the other, a “fully bicultural” administration for everyone else.
History written by a person who majored in maths and physics, and who has a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, brings analysis based on numbers and a focus on measurement.
The immediate focus of measurement in the He Puapua race-based reorganisation of New Zealand, for Dr Robinson, is that if we are to have a per cent of the population governed by Maori, how do we determine who is a Maori and what actually is that percentage?
The current definition, which essentially says “a Maori is a Maori”, is nonsense, and the definition used up to 1972, that one had to have more than 50 per cent Maori ancestry to qualify, has been discarded.
He exposes the gerrymander used in calculating the number of Maori seats (there should be five, not seven).
“The way in which the actual number who registered themselves and families as Maori in the Census, 625,600, has been doctored to produce a ‘Maori descent electoral population’ of 896,600, an increase of 43 per cent,” he wrote.
This manipulation of figures is currently being used by councils setting up Maori wards to impose an inflated number of Maori roll councillors.
Chapter titles that include “Cultural intimidation”, “A racist New Zealand”, “Inventing indigenous New Zealanders”, “Tikanga in dual law”, “Unequal democratic rights”, and “Teaching fake history” shows that Dr Robinson pulls no punches.
He thinks that this Government should be remembered as the Ardern-Mahuta Government because Minister Nanaia Mahuta of the Tainui tribe is the power behind the throne.
He Puapua – Blueprint for breaking up New Zealand, John Robinson, 178 pages, illustrated, is available from trosspublishing for $35 (including postage), or from Paper Plus.
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