> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://goodoil.news/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Who Did This? - URL: https://goodoil.news/who-did-this/ - Published: 2026-09-27T21:00:34.000Z - Updated: 2026-09-27T21:00:33.000Z - Description: And what to do? - Author: Reproduced with permission - Tags: NZ Politics **Amy Brooke** The answer to the question, who, is our successive governments, both Labour and National, which have betrayed the people of this country. It’s high time to hold them to account. I wonder how many people know that on 22 November, 1972, New Zealand ratified the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination – without restriction – committing to eliminate racial discrimination and guarantee equality before the law. [Article 4](https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/international-convention-elimination-all-forms-racial?ref=goodoil.news) requires the state not to permit its public authorities to promote or incite racial discrimination. In other words, our government agreed to endorse a shared national identity with equal rights for all individuals, regardless of race. However, since then, both of our major parties have systematically favoured legislation directed towards the interests of part-Māori only, cumulatively bestowing billions of dollars in special funding on those of Māori descent – many of whom are in fact predominantly of European or Eurasian descent. There are no longer any full-blooded Māori. This has not stopped our successive governments advantaging both part-Māori individuals and iwi – pseudo-tribes operating as corporations and constantly contriving to obtain more and more advantages over all other New Zealanders – while in many cases avoiding taxation. A gigantic, government-promoted scam has been and is systematically taking place. For example, thanks to the Taxpayers’ Union, we learn that government agencies have spent $3.5 million of taxpayers’ money on waiata and karakia in work time – Māori chants, incantations, songs, etc, and approved 200 days of extra tikanga leave, i.e., race-based paid time off for public service officials. There are explicit hiring mandates in the Public Service Act and the Crown Entities Act prioritising race-based appointments. The Green Party want to give $2.4 billion to marae – a sum greater than what will be spent on the new Dunedin hospital. What has actually happened in New Zealand is that the ‘long march’ through our institutions has meant that all our institutions have now been captured at the top. The result has been what Janet Dickson,a woman of great integrity and courage, has encountered. After 30 years of practising as a real estate agent, Dickson refused to take a compulsory course covering te Reo (the largely, recently invented, language wrongly claimed to be the authentic Māori language), tikanga and te Tiriti o Waitangi. She quite rightly argued it would add no value to her work and conflicted with her personal beliefs. She has therefore lost her licence. Similar cultural bullying by those who dominate our institutions, is now prevalent. For example, a medical practitioner states that to continue to practice medicine in NZ he must annually complete a cultural safety module. Doctors are required to study and agree to the belief system that Maori, (and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders’) poorer health statistics are a result of colonialism and its supposed harms. He notes that those who do not turn up to scheduled appointments are disproportionately Māori, as are also those who don’t take prescribed medication. No doubt such time-wasting behaviour is aimed at striking a blow against colonial impositions… Professional bodies exist to uphold standards, not enforce political ideology. So predominant has been the racial activism of a powerful minority only of part-Māori (by no means speaking for the majority) that we have non-elected Māori councillors in local governments around the country being given voting rights. Even worse situations have arisen, such as Davina Smolders, an elected councillor of the Far North District Council, who was removed by the majority of her peers because they didn’t like her questions about the basic bullying by Māori activists within the council. Equally shocking has been the cover-up concerning the slip causing fatalities at Mount Maunganui because of the activism of local iwi and the inertia, and lack of responsibility, of the local council. The Tauranga City Council claimed that the oak and other English trees were removed in 2023 because they were unsafe or diseased. The work involved helicopters and disturbances on steep terrain. At the time the council acknowledged that such disturbances could trigger slope instability. The risk was neither unknown nor theoretical. They were removed to comply with the 2018 Mauao Historic Reserve management plan from a culturally significant site. All around the country, we now see evidence of cultural bullying by powerful iwi, with bureaucrats, local councils or our government making decisions to benefit those of part-Māori descent – even though many of these individuals are far more genetically European or Eurasian. And the projected handover of the historic Molesworth Station to predatory Ngāi Tahu means Ngāi Tahu has been chosen by DOC as the preferred farming operator. The former long-term manager, Jim Ward, who spent 24 years running this iconic property, and who wanted to turn Molesworth into a non-profit public asset, didn’t have a chance. DOC has long been perceived as favouring Māori interests in preference to all others and in fact has a legal mandate to form partnerships with iwi, hapū and protect Māori interests. Who gave DOC this mandate? Ngāi Tahu, meantime, is trying to control all the waterways of the South Island. The utterly hypocritical behaviour of our political parties following the government’s ratification of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination has led us to become no longer a genuine democracy. We all know that governments are supposed to derive their power from the consent of the governed. In a democracy, legitimacy flows upwards from the people. Our supposed democracy is meant to be built on this principle but we are all well aware that it is one that our governments now routinely ignore. We are simply not consulted and our views are ignored on other important issues, such as immigration and the costs of the climate change hysteria, with our obdurate Prime Minister Christopher Luxon, wedded to the folly of the Paris Agreement, now being abandoned by countries increasingly aware of the scam underpinning the claim that it is CO2 causing the cyclical global warming, for which there is no evidence whatsoever. It will serve the country better if New Zealanders bestow their list-MPs votes elsewhere at the coming election, as National’s MPs have not listened to the public. When one thinks of the genuinely statesmen-like leaders of the past such as Walter Nash, Peter Fraser, Keith Holyoake and others, it is simply cringe-making to see Luxon’s far from statesmanlike performance . It is a quite extraordinary and hugely worrying situation, given the sheer destructiveness of the previous Labour Government, that the National coalition is not streets ahead in the polls. Part of this is undoubtedly due to the fact that so many do not warm to Luxon. Although the National Party knew this, they did not have the courage to end his tenure long ago. It fell to only one highly respected and intelligent MP of impeccable background – popular in his own electorate, for good reason – to challenge Luxon. Christopher Penk is a great loss to the party and would very probably have made a betterleader than Luxon ever could**.** Given that New Zealand did ratify the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, Luxon’s response to the ACT Party’s Treaty Principles Bill has been not only extraordinary, but completely unacceptable. The bill’s most important provision is that it guarantees equality before the law and equal protection for all citizens without discrimination. What does it tell us about Christopher Luxon’s values that, when asked what he liked about the proposed Treaty Principles Bill, he said there was nothing at all he liked about it. Given the National Party MPs’ failure to challenge Luxon’s inadequate leadership, it is little wonder that the perception of many of the public is that too many National MPs lack moral courage. New Zealand’s immigration stance rightly concerns many. People undoubtedly have a right to say whom they want admitted to their country – or to weigh whether an applicant’s cultural values are at odds with the Judaeo-Christian values upon which this country was founded, and which has long underpinned our stability as a nation. Given the infiltration by Islamic extremists, with the disastrous consequences that have occurred in every country, the number of mosques and Islamic teaching centres now throughout New Zealand should be cause for concern. This is not a question of Islamophobia, but of simply learning the lessons that are painfully being inflicted throughout the West. As the next election looms, there is no doubt that, although deserving electorate National Party MPs or candidates may gain seats, National will lose the list votes it does not deserve. Yet it would be an utter catastrophe for the parties of the Left to again seize power. Many New Zealanders will be looking favourably at the coalition’s partners.