I’m thankful that Cam has highlighted alternative Māori voices that I don’t think we would otherwise have heard from – figures such as Brian Tamaki, Lee Taituha and Corina Shields. These are the people that Māori should be listening to.
If democracy in New Zealand is to endure, these race-based structures must be dismantled by the coalition. It’s time to draw the line and take our country back.
‘Do I think it’s a good idea to scrap art history? No, I think it’s a terrible, tragic idea’ – Dame Jane Campion.
Today, local Muslim leaders are telling Americans they are not welcome in their own communities, in their own country.
The Albanese government is destroying a century-old Anzac tradition.
We must learn to notice those instincts so that we can signal appropriate disgust wherever we encounter them.
Ordinary people can be locked down, surveilled, imprisoned, cordoned off, written off, dosed up on junk food and fat jabs, made to install inefficient heat pumps, sacked, housed in ugly new builds, left uneducated, laughed at and looked down upon, because they’re only ordinary.
Creating parallel power structures based on race does not heal divisions – it institutionalises them.
