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Witch Hunt Nears Its Grisly End

A pack of witch hunters pops Janet Dickson’s career. Who are the real witches?

Photo by Franck V. / Unsplash

John McLean
Citizen typist patriot

New Zealand’s Real Estate Authority (REA) is gleefully poised to cancel Janet Dickson’s licence to be a real estate agent. Cancellation will almost certainly terminate Janet’s exemplary 30-year career.

Dickson’s impending doom follows the REA disciplinary tribunal, on 1 September, upholding the REA registrar’s earlier refusal to exempt Janet Dickson from a mandatory 2023 course. The 90-minute course, called “Te Kākano”, was designed to indoctrinate real estate agents into believing prescribed Woke dogmas about “things Māori”. The hatchet man registrar was lawyer Peter Cullen. Now retired, Peter still maintains his own self-aggrandizing website:

Janet steadfastly refused to undergo Te Kākano because its mythological Māori content conflicted with her Christian faith and her heretical conviction that all New Zealanders ought to enjoy equality under the law.

REA is no longer allowed to force real estate agents to bend their knees to Te Kākano. ACT Party Associate Minister of Justice Nicole McKee – correctly recognising that the course was utterly irrelevant to agents doing their jobs – issued a statutory Letter of Expectation in February 2025 effectively banning the REA from continuing to shove Te Kākano down agents’ throats.

Apart from Te Kākano, Janet Dickson is currently completely up-to-date with all her compulsory professional training obligations.

Two individuals who provided Te Kākano, Donna Grant and Katherine Tuhakaraina, had earlier received criminal convictions in connection with their race hustling provision of Māori mumbo jumbo and cultural cringe.

Ending Janet’s career has been a concerted Wokerati team effort. REA declined Janet’s initial request to be exempted from Te Kākano. In June 2024, the High Court grabbed its pitchfork and refused Janet’s application for a judicial review of REA’s decision. Registrar Cullen, as indicated, countenanced REA’s refusal to exempt Janet, with the tribunal now raising the guillotine blade for REA to finish the hit job and behead dear Janet.

I’ve already covered Janet’s court action. In hindsight, that action was futile. The judge was Frightening McQueen, a frightful Wokester.

New Zealand’s High Court has upheld a five year ban on a woman pursuing her career as a real estate agent. The victim of the ban is Janet Dickson. New Zealand’s Real Estate Authority (REA) banned Janet because she refused to take a 1.5 hour training course called “Te Kākano”. REA made the Te Kākano course compulsory, and refused to exempt Janet from it.…

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At any time after Janet applied for an exemption from Te Kākano, including right now (as I type), REA could have excused her from REA’s silly essay at racial brainwashing. But it hasn’t. Of course it hasn’t.

Instigator of Te Kākano was the current REA chief executive and registrar, a Pākehā wahine by the name of Belinda Moffat. Before joining REA in 2020, Little Miss Moffat was Chief Executive of the Broadcasting Standards Authority. The BSA is the lawless, censoriously Woke outfit that is currently seeking to destroy media channel the Platform, a quest the BSA will be liberated to complete if there’s a Labour Party-led government after New Zealand’s upcoming general election.

Before heading the BSA, Moffat was director of enforcement and investigations at the Financial Markets Authority. That’s the statutory regulator from which both its board chair and chief executive have disappeared within the last six months.

So, who are Moffat’s toadies on the Real Estate Agents disciplinary tribunal? They’re lawyers David Plunkett (chair) and Catherine Sandelin (deputy chair), together with drones by the names of Garry Denley, Neil O’Connor and Fiona Mathieson.

Moffat’s biggest accomplice in the execution of her vicious vendetta against Janet Dickson has been the chair of REA’s board, lawyer Denese Bates KC:

In an interview with the Platform’s main man Sean Plunket on 9 September, Nicole McKee singled out Denese for special mention. Nicole expressed her particular delight that Denese Bates has limited time left on REA’s board. According to the REA’s website, Bates’ term will end on 22 December 2027. For the sake of all real estate agents and New Zealanders in general, we can only hope Denese’s departure is much earlier.

Particularly in light of REA’s Te Kākano madness, the ACT Party announced on 17 June 2026 that, if returned to government after this year’s election, ACT will introduce legislation that would:

  • Ban regulators of professions from disciplining members for lawful views expressed outside of their jobs;
  • Restrict mandatory training to matters directly related to professional competence and public safety; and
  • Strengthen judicial oversight of regulators, making it easier for courts to intervene where regulators exceed their statutory functions.

Any such legislation will be wonderful, but too late to save Janet Dickson from professional execution. Almost certainly, her end will come soon. Janet is mourning the recent death of her husband and REA will be eagerly looking to compound her suffering absolutely as soon as it can.

REA’s treatment of Janet Dickson is of course a pure witch hunt. This brave woman has been singled out, persecuted and punished for her personal beliefs and courageous rebellion against the Wokethodoxy, certainly not for any misconduct on her part. The real witches are of course the vindictive and/or gutless witch hunters of Janet, led by malicious master head hunter Moffat.

Naturally, Janet is far from alone in her fate.

Broadcaster Leah Panapa is one of myriad other witch huntees. She was hounded out of her talkback hosting job at now-defunct Today FM for refusing to call women “pregnant people” and otherwise pretend than men can give birth to babies. In proof that witch hunting is not reserved for mean girls – bad white (b)witches like Moffat and Denese Psycho Bates – it was a dude who took Panapa down.

Mediaworks “director of news and talk” Dallas Gurney even felt fit to try and humiliate Leah by issuing a phoney apology on her behalf, declaring:

“Once Leah and Miles [Davis – not the trumpeter, the sportscaster] were made aware of the impact of what they said, they were devastated about those they have hurt.”

Leah Panapa was young enough to continue her career. Janet Dickson will sadly be gone for good.

This article was originally published on the author’s Substack.

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