In 2018, I began writing a book about Maori and their plans for New Zealand. It’s all come true.
Politicians, universally, talk about “what Maori need” i.e. housing, jobs, education, access to medical care, and so on.
They also talk about throwing huge sums of money “at the needs of Maori”.
The thesis of my book is that none of things are what Maori REALLY need.
Character, not money, is what Maori need.
The reason the British were in the driver’s seat in the world in 1840 is because they had what Maori did not have – they had character. It was character which led to their success on the world stage.
180 years later, most Maori still have not woken up to the fact.
This is the reason New Zealand is in such a mess in 2022.
Here is a Maori politician who is a huge contributor to the mess. Her, and many like her, the Maori elite, the Treaty Twisters, are carnage creators.
They are absolutely the last thing Maori need.
You can read the introduction to the book here
You are absolutely right.
Sonia, thank you. Character is the key to success for any cultural group and any person, not just Maori. But Maori have not woken up to the fact. So all this enormous money and time being spent on them is so unbelievably wasteful. All the trouble that is being created is no unnecessary. As the song goes, Maori are looking for love in all the wrong places.
Yes, an entirely wasteful distraction of effort and resource that otherwise could be spent to the benefit of everyone on developing and progressing a productive economic vision in which NZ does more than just ‘grow cows’ and invest in nailed together abodes.
The more we have ‘resourced’ Maori, the worse / weaker in their character they have become. In turn, this has made them increasingly dependent and ‘entitled’. It’s a sad sad vicious cycle.
Excellent article/intro Julian. I personally have always argued that Maori need their feet to be held to the fire, no special laws and to be accountable for their life results as anyone else. Your focus on character is a great concept that ought to encourage a different type of Maori leader.
Thanks Don. No Maori leader anywhere is talking about this issue. I guess they are too fixed on getting the money and assets to be worried about long term solutions. Giving them more money and assets, even though the whole basis of the giving is fraudulent, will not fix anything. It’s like putting a band aid on the head of a man with a brain tumour, thinking this will fix the tumour.
The problem is of course that the Maori culture created a people with a character that failed to advance beyond hunter / gathering, using stone implements and weapons, disorganised and constantly in conflict. Why anybody would want to resurrect or sustain a culture that has created that situation is beyond me, particularly when there’s a character model on the doorstep that’s been incomparably successful, which is prepared to bend over backwards to provide a leg up. True Maori “elite”, insightful thinkers, such as Sir Apirana Turupa, understood that. Too many others, including most of the current Labour/Green MPs who identify as Maori, range from misguided to vengefully racist.
There are two reasons character development has not taken off or been adopted with Maori. 1. It takes effort 2. there are pitifully few Maori who model it.If I was PM, I would bring character development studies into school at all levels, instead of compulsory Te Reo.
Hello dear Julian I firmly believe you should be knighted for speaking and recording the truth about the Gimme-Gimme tribes of NEW ZEALAND
The reality is the Gimme Gimme people have been spoon fed by the sick New Zealand political system full of namby-pamby (maudlin) bastards who had not thought the damage and carnage they were doing long term. You will never placate a spoil child and these childlike morons have learned how to manipulate the psychic weaknesses of the NEW ZEALAND system. And further too some sick NEW ZEALANDERS with an over sympathetic limbic system have reinforced the notion that these cannibal tribes of NEW ZEALAND were disadvantaged to the extent other NEW ZEALANDERS should toil away and provide for the savages every want in this newly created utopia with over generous liberals. And hell; has this come back and bitten us in the bum, and to the point it will lead to the demise of NEW ZEALAND unless we take stock, back our heritage, our dignity, self respect and reset our objectives.. The ruthless Gimme-Gimme tribes have no moral compass and its in there DNA to just take want they want (bastards). We must stand up and at whatever cost defend our sovereignty as laid out in the the maligned treaty, that must be used to bring sanity back to an insane developing tribal political situation.
Well said Raleigh. Excellent overview.
It really does come down to a united “We The People” to bring about the change we want.
No current politician/party is going to save us. All of them have shown us their “true colours” and need to begone.
Democracy is dead, Communism is here in New Zealand alive and well.
What are ‘We The People” going to do about it?
The Kaipara Maori leaders from 1940 had character, they recognised the benefit European settlement would bring to their people.
What Maori really need is a reality check, because they are the architects of their own demise.
I find it intolerable, that any democratically elected government should continue to negotiate with any tribe or tribes, whilst a gun is held to the nations head. Perhaps the nation has become overwhelmed with guilt and can see.no way past this blackmail attempt.
The simple solution is to immediately dissolve the Waitangi Tribunal and work backwards from there enforcing “Article the First”
Of the Treaty.
It is after all a very simple, clear and concise document. Failure to understand it does not afford the protagonists the right to re negotiate its terms, in order to achieve a favourable outcome.
People who have worked in several different industries will know that each has a different way of thinking and mindset Culture is a word thats used.
Tribal separatists have a different culture to the mainstream wrapped around grievance and entitlement supported by woke fellow travellers and enabled by New Zealanders sense of giving everyone a fair go. This has been going on for at least 50 years now and surely must be coming to a head . Patience is wearing thin and the end game will not be pretty.
Politicians will not do anything to help unless they are forced to
The two major parties are the ones who got us into this mess.