March 28, 2023
The wealthy are flocking to the anti-Māori rhetoric of ACT
Posted On March 28, 2023
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The rich of New Zealand love ACT’s inflammatory anti-Māori rhetoric, the latest donations list show very wealthy Kiwis flocking to ACT’s call to put the Treaty of Waitangi to a referendum to limit Māori Treaty aspirations.
ACT want a new Treaty Principles Law to redefine the courts’ principles of the Treaty based on nothing more than a referendum using ACT negotiating with itself rather than Māori to determine how the Treaty should now be interpreted.
The idea that ACT could negotiate on behalf of Māori as to how the treaty should be interpreted and then take that to a referendum is the sort of race war baiting nonsense Trump likes to inspire.
To see so many wealthy individuals donating cash for this far right race baiting policy is deeply revealing about how frightened rich people in NZ are of Māori being more than indigenous people to steal land from.
ACT recently raised almost a million from the wealthiest of New Zealanders;
ACT’s big money donors:
Gary Lane $50,000 Chris Meehan $50,000 Graeme Edwards $50,000 Murray Chandler $100,000 John Buchanan $100,000 Mike Thorburn $50,000 Graeme Hart $100,000 Trevor Farmer $100,000 Christopher & Banks $100,000 Nick Mowbray $100,000 Brendan Lindsay $50,000 Peter Vela $50,000 Jenny Gibbs $50,000This money is on top of a war chest that is reported to be $4million in donations.
The very rich of NZ are donating huge amounts to a far right Party who is promising to implement the most radical cuts to the State since Rodger Douglas while mutilating race relations between Māori and Pakeha.
The 2023 election is shaping up to be the most important of our generation.