The word for today is…
remittance (noun) – 1. The sending of money to someone at a distance.
2. The sum of money sent.
Remittance Man – A man living abroad on money sent from home, esp in the days of the British Empire. Someone kept at a distance with remittances. The family black sheep.
Source : The Free Dictionary
Etymology : 1705; Remit + -ance. Earlier in same sense were remitment (1610s of offenses; 1670s of money sent); remital (1590s).
The law makes it clear: parliament could abolish the Māori seats tomorrow with a simple majority – no referendum needed, no special entrenchment – yet a politically convenient referendum is being offered instead.
Transforming the revenge fantasies of anti-immigrant populists into enforceable public policy will not be easy.
You’re much better off visualising how you’re going to get there. But then that would mean actual work.
Tamatha Paul is responsible for the positions she advocated, the amendments she moved, and the prioritisation she helped secure. That is the level at which accountability properly sits. And insisting on that level of accountability is not racism. It is politics.
