Culture Wars
What Happened to Personal Responsibility?
What is it that academics and public servants are afraid of? That the consequences of enforced personal responsibility would drive worse outcomes?
Te Tiriti, Not Te Mandate
A school board affirms its right to apply Treaty obligations lawfully – supporting Māori students without mandating cultural content for all.
The Religion of te Ao in Schools
While te Ao spirituality is often described as a cultural worldview, its modern application within the education and public sectors has taken on the features of an organised religion.
Basking in the Sun and Howling at the Moon
Time waits for no man and, as the polls indicate, there is frustration and impatience in voter land.
Foreign Religions Threaten NZ’s Way of Life
“NZ Patriots – if there’s ever been a time to rise up, it’s now,” Tamaki concluded, calling on supporters to mobilise.
Can the State Schools Be Secular?
If you say schools shouldn’t ‘indoctrinate’ children or ‘force a religious view’ on them, allow me to point out to you that the schools have been indoctrinating children with secular humanism and forcing its religious views on them for decades. Now the shoe is on the other foot.
All It Takes Is One Person to Say ‘Eff Off’
The beginning of a working-class revolt against wokeism.
How the Woke Left Abandoned the Cause
Ask yourself how we got here. It didn’t happen overnight. It was a slow, steady march, backed by the very establishment that now pretends to loathe itself.
No Swimming, No Fishing and No Voice
This rāhui is not about mourning. It’s about power. And it is being exercised with zero accountability and total impunity. Welcome to the tikanga takeover.
Where Are the Principles in the Treaty?
This sort of stupidity will not be solved until the principles are tightened up. We cannot have numerous interpretations of the articles of the Treaty: this is precisely what has created the mess we find ourselves in.
What Is in a Name?
Thank you, Minister Chhour, for being braver than most people who have taken a seat in New Zealand’s cabinet room. Thank you for seeing all of us and not reducing the importance, severity, or validity of our terrible experiences to a matter of our racial background.
Whole Lotta Lootin’ Goin On
Like most of the bad things in history, it wasn’t just the British who ‘stole stuff’.