ANOTHER attack on Treaty – Maori wards and erasing legislation

For a Government that keeps claiming that it is not Anti-Māori, they seem to have a lot of anti-Māori policies.

Week after week after week there is a never-ending parade of anti-Māori policy this Government throw out as raw meat to their angry reactionary voting block.

This week we see this Government attempt to undermine local councils by forcing referendums on the Māori Wards and we are seeing an attempt to remove the Treaty from at least 40 acts with Treaty principles clauses!

This amounts to an erasure of Māori political aspirations at the local level and total elimination of the Treaty from law.

You can see why Māori are their Pakeha allies in biculturalism are so angry.

Not only were Māori the political punching bag to get the reactionary Right elected, but they now have to endure the indignity of having the little they have gained ripped away from them in the name of ‘democracy’.

Whose democracy?

Councils that were progressive and advanced enough to create Māori Wards are about to have their choice ripped away from them by forcing them to hold referendum to justify Māori inclusion.

Their democracy clearly doesn’t matter.

Our law has been written together and has attempted to find a path of justice, simply removing the Treaty from all law passed doesn’t serve our democracy it mutilates it!

The wider Left need to acknowledge that the fringe elements of this new Government have no intention of pausing in their culture war against Māori and the only option left is protest.

The Left need to work together so that Māori, workers, renters and the environment that are being abused by this new Government  have a focused response.

There is more common ground between us than separates us and the very future of our country is being challenged and re-written by a Government that has no mandate to do so.