New Zealand a young face on old bones

Our best heritage It would surprise many Kiwis to learn that, though the country had its formal beginning only about 180 years ago, New Zealand adopted the body of English law, which added over a thousand years of history, to before 1066, to exiles and executions of...

Words are all we have

Let us define them Lawyers are masters of language, with the result that disputing the meanings of words can occupy days of court time with deliberations that drastically alter the character of a suit and secure unexpected judgements. Definitions are key to all...

We’re all people of this land!

Pretending Maoris are natives of this land and all others are not is a wicked fiction There are three reasons for this. Maoris arrived here from Taiwan in about 1200 AD, so they’re immigrants like the rest of us.Maori activists were born in the last few decades,...

Democracy be damned

Non-Maori votes enfeebled as unelectable Maoris never face elections There is a hostility building among conservatives in Middle New Zealand at the Labour government’s blatant vandalism of our democracy. Their radical, race-based alterations enfeeble non-Maori...

Three Waters could hardly get worse, right?

Taxpayers’ Union major update: email of 9 March, 2022 Below is a major update on official proposals to “improve” the Three Waters scheme. But first, an update on our fundraising for court action: We are now confident we will hit our $200,000 fundraising target...