A-Dub 🥝Tina Ngata: "Parmjeet Parmar has indeed done a lot of damage, & delivers racist harm to Māori & many others. The answer to that should not be to deliver racist harm back upon her people by mocking them, ridiculing their culture, jeering at the poverty on their lands that comes from the same coloniser, & using racial slurs cloaked in our reo".
still having chills remembering the protest haka in the NZ Parliament:
https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cg4ln6ddgy9o
#ToitūTeTiriti #TogetherForTeTiriti #FuckACT #TreatyPrinciplesBill #NZpol
A-Dub 🥝"The university, required by law to act as a critic and conscience of society, has traditionally enjoyed academic independence so that curriculum decisions aren’t dictated by political interests. That freedom is betrayed when politicians seek to shape the way universities exercise their functions.
The minority ACT Party has been notably vocal in the most recent attempt to interfere in the university’s curriculum decisions."
good. throw the three-stooges coalition out definitively at the next opportunity!!
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/572447/coalition-loses-power-in-new-political-poll
thing is, David Seymour absolutely *IS* an arrogant prick!
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/corrections/571203/bsa-rejects-complaint-about-swearing-on-rnz-programme
the NZ conservative coalition government
wants to shake up several government agencies, including the Ministries for Women, Disabled People, Pacific Peoples, and Māori Development 😵💫
yeah, there are some similarities...
"is NZ politics having a MAGA moment?"
https://thespinoff.co.nz/the-bulletin/06-07-2025/is-nz-politics-having-a-maga-moment
If the RSB is enacted, it will render health essentially irrelevant to regulatory decisions
— Dr George Laking, associate professor of medical oncology and clinical director Māori in the Centre for Cancer Research, Te Aka Mātauranga Matepukupuku
https://e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-analysis/dr-george-laking-the-rsb-is-bad-for-your-constitution/
George Laking: The RSB is bad for your constitution | E-Tangata
“I was recently quoted as saying the Regulatory Standards Bill ‘will stop lawmakers considering broader public health.’ This exchange led Minister Seymour to question my sanity in a public forum. I stand by my statement.” — Dr George Laking.
ACT is a super racist extremely neoliberal political party in NZ with little public support and way too much funding from rapacious rich people, and PM Chris Luxon is letting it run riot, aiming its wrecking ball anywhere it wants, regardless of the carnage up and down the motu. the RSB is fucking dangerous and needs to be stopped cold.
In expert evidence provided to the Waitangi Tribunal’s urgent hearing into the Regulatory Standards Bill this week, constitutional law expert Professor Andrew Geddis, supported by Professor Jonathan Boston, said the bill will create a regulatory constitution, and would cause a “fundamental constitutional shift from the current legislative landscape”. Toitū Te Tiriti claimants asserted that the bill, if passed, would constitute the most fundamental breach of Te Tiriti in modern times.
https://e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-analysis/the-dangerous-bill-has-been-updated-but-how/
The 'dangerous' bill has been updated, but how? | E-Tangata
“The ACT Party has tried to pass a version of this legislation three times since 2007 and has failed each time. Now it’s forcing the bill through as part of the coalition agreement.” — Melanie Nelson on the Regulatory Standards Bill.