THE ONLY CONSTITUTIONAL ANCHOR; FORMAL NOTICE TO MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT

June 16, 2026
, , , , Maori, New Zealand Government, Treaty of Waitangi, Treaty Settlements

By Ivan Barnett

This document requires immediate and serious attention from ACT, NZ First, and National MPs.

It is not a partisan argument. It is a constitutional warning.

New Zealand is experiencing constitutional drift driven by: undefined Treaty terms, judicial reinterpretation, bureaucratic expansion, non‑statutory governance structures, opaque Crown–iwi negotiations, public funding of private entities without accountability.

These developments are occurring without public mandate, without statutory authority, and without democratic legitimacy.

Failure to address these issues will result in the continued erosion of parliamentary sovereignty and the entrenchment of unelected authority structures.

I. THE TREATY TEXT: THE ONLY CONSTITUTIONAL ANCHOR

The Māori‑language Treaty — the only version actually agreed to — contains:

kāwanatanga ceded to the Crown,

tino rangatiratanga guaranteed to individuals and hapū over their property,

nga tikanga katoa rite tahi — equal rights under the law.

It contains no partnership, no co‑governance, no shared sovereignty, no “principles,” and no requirement to “give effect to” anything.

The English text was not agreed to.

The “principles” doctrine was invented more than a century later.

The partnership doctrine has no basis in the text.

The Māori text is the constitutional foundation.

II. JUDICIAL REINTERPRETATION AND CONSTITUTIONAL RISK

The courts have expanded Treaty obligations far beyond the text, creating:

Partnership, active protection, shared authority, co‑governance, obligations to “give effect to”, obligations to protect “taonga” in an expanded sense. These expansions were not authorized by Parliament. They were not authorized by the Treaty.

They were created through judicial interpretation, often relying on the English text or later political developments.

This has created a parallel constitutional framework that Parliament never enacted.

III. THE LEGAL EXPANSION OF “TAONGA”

A. The 1840 Meaning

In the Māori text, taonga meant:

Property, goods, possessions, tangible items.

It did not include: political authority, natural resources, data, language, environmental governance, cultural veto rights.

The modern expansion is a post‑1980s invention.

B. Case Law Driving Expansion

NZMC v AG (1987)

Expanded “taonga” to intangible cultural values.

Broadcasting Assets (1994)

Declared Māori language a “taonga” requiring Crown protection.

Ngāi Tahu v DG of Conservation (1995)

Extended “taonga” into commercial regulation.

Ngāti Apa (2003)

Extended “taonga” into territorial authority.

None of these expansions are grounded in the Māori text.

C. Tribunal Jurisprudence

The Waitangi Tribunal has extended “taonga” into: flora and fauna (Wai 262)

intellectual property, genetic material, scientific knowledge, data sovereignty (Wai 2522)

political authority (Wai 1040)

These findings are advisory, yet government agencies treat them as binding.

D. Constitutional Consequences

Judicial policymaking replaces parliamentary lawmaking. Undefined Treaty terms override statutory clarity, Sector‑wide co‑governance claims proliferate, Equal citizenship is eroded. Parliamentary sovereignty is weakened.

IV. NON‑STATUTORY GOVERNANCE STRUCTURES

A. National Iwi Chairs Forum (NICF)

Not created by statute.

Not elected. Not accountable. Not subject to OIA.

Yet Ministers attend its meetings and treat it as a parallel policy body.

B. Iwi Leaders Groups (ILGs)

Operate in: Freshwater, climate, resource management, health, data.

They draft policy frameworks and negotiate directly with government agencies.

C. Data Iwi Leaders Group (DILG)

Claims Māori data is a “taonga” requiring Māori governance.

Influences: Cloud First, AI governance, national data policy. This is policy capture by a private entity.

D. Funding and Accountability

These bodies receive taxpayer‑funded support through: departmental budgets, consultancy contracts, engagement payments, co‑governance participation funding, local government contributions.

Yet they remain: unaudited, unregulated, unaccountable, opaque. This is incompatible with democratic governance.

V. CONSTITUTIONAL RISKS TO NEW ZEALAND

Parallel authority structures. Loss of democratic accountability, Opaque decision‑making, Erosion of equal citizenship. Undermining of parliamentary sovereignty, Judicial expansion without democratic mandate. Policy capture by unelected entities, These risks are not hypothetical.

They are already occurring.

VI. REQUIRED ACTION BY PARLIAMENT

To restore constitutional clarity and democratic accountability, Parliament must:

1. Define “taonga” explicitly and narrowly

— as property and possessions in the 1840 sense.

2. Anchor Treaty interpretation in the Māori text

— not in judicially‑invented “principles.”

3. Affirm that NICF, ILGs, and DILG have no constitutional or statutory authority

— and cannot bind the Crown.

4. Require transparency in all Crown–iwi negotiations

— including OIA coverage.

5. Reassert parliamentary sovereignty

— only Parliament can make law.

6. Ensure equal citizenship under Article 3

— no parallel governance structures.

VII. RED LINE DECLARATION

No constitutional authority may be transferred, shared, or implied through: undefined Treaty terms, judicial invention, bureaucratic policy, non‑statutory negotiation, co‑governance arrangements ,partnership doctrines.

Tribunal findings. Only Parliament may legislate. Only the Māori text of Te Tiriti is binding.

Equal citizenship is non‑negotiable.

VIII. CLOSING CONSTITUTIONAL STATEMENT

This document is submitted to ACT, NZ First, and National with the expectation that it will be treated with the seriousness required of elected representatives. This is not a political dispute.

It is a constitutional inflection point. If Parliament fails to act: constitutional drift will continue, democratic accountability will erode, parallel authority structures will deepen, public trust will collapse.

The responsibility now rests with Parliament.

The public expects clarity, courage, and constitutional integrity.

This document has been compiled from a wide range of files, reports, and reference materials. It is provided to Members of Parliament for serious consideration. The content requires further research, careful evaluation, and informed discussion to ensure that the constitutional issues identified are properly understood and addressed

The Greatest Scam in The History of NZ

June 11, 2026
, , , , Democracy, He Puapua, Maori, NZ Local Government, Treaty of Waitangi

By William Chambers

There are hundreds of preferential “provisions” along with 96 Acts of Parliament favouring Maori over all other New Zealanders.  So, you must surely be asking yourself how fair is that, … and WHY would such a blatant apartheid regime have ever been allowed to come about.

Well, this country has been taken down by the biggest fraudulent scam ever known.  Due entirely to the fact that Activists are inherently greedy.

And due also to the fact that many Politicians are inherently unscrupulous.  So, the desire for power is what causes them to betray the rights of the majority.  While at the same time, allowing our country’s democracy to be destroyed.

The entire shameful rort is based firstly on the ever-expanding acceptance of Maori being INDIGENOUS to New Zealand.  Which is most definitely not true.  (As a result of the Key government signing and Mr. Luxon “affirming” the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Maori could have the right to separate self-rule … through their own political and legal systems.  And also separate education, health, and housing (all funded by the State) with entitlement to much of NZ’s land; and all key natural resources from which income is derived.  And including the push for intellectual “rights” on property, genetics, and all living species in the country – both native and introduced.)

Then, whilst Article 1. of the Treaty is clearly about the Maori Chiefs ceding SOVEREIGNTY to the British Crown, Activists have misinterpreted it as meaning they did not.  This is a straight out lie – part of the trickery to assert self-determination, with all the riches that scenario would entail.

And where in Article 2. Maori are guaranteed ownership of their lands, there is the additional word “PROPERTY” which was referring to precious treasures (taonga) i.e. personal possessions obtained by the tip of the spear. This limited description has now been deviously misconstrued as meaning underground minerals, iron sands, plant life, wildlife, water, and even the sky (airwaves).  So, the sky’s the limit as far as their claims go.  You name it, they’ll claim it … if there is easy money to be gained.

Then in Article 3. the focus is on EQUALITY which simply and concisely reads: “A ratou nga tikanga katoa rite tahi”.  Meaning: All New Zealanders are equal under the law with the same rights and privileges.

However, fraudsters have twisted that as meaning Maori are meant to have “equitable” outcomes.  And by that, they mean doing as well in life as the rest of us, without too much effort on their part.  So, once again, with the emphasis on easy money.

Aside from all that, there’s the claim that the Treaty is a “PARTNERSHIP”.  Professor Elizabeth Rata has said, quote: “An invented reinterpretation of the Treaty as a ‘partnership’ has been taught to at least two generations of schoolchildren.”

Such forced indoctrination of our children is scandalous.  Nowhere is there even a hint of “partnership” in any version of the Treaty.

Then we have the ludicrous Treaty “PRINCIPLES”.  There are absolutely none in the ‘Agreement’.  They were dreamed up more than a century later.  And due to being “illusionary” were not defined … so, can mean whatever Maori want them to be.  Open slather.

Another part of the scam that we’ve succumbed to, is the claim of rights to “FISHERIES” because a bogus English version of the Treaty wrongly includes that word.

The fact is, the correct “Mother” Draft used for translating into Maori was misplaced until found in 1989 – and it does not mention “fisheries”.  Which of course, explains why the word “fisheries” is not in the Treaty written in Te Reo.

But, Maori choose to ignore what is the “official” treaty Document, in favour of the false English version, because it means they‘re able to claim exclusive harvesting rights.  And, have been granted huge tonnages of quota.  Plus, been gifted major shareholdings in New Zealand fishing Companies.  Thus, yet another rort.

Aside from fisheries, the word “FORESTS” was also wrongly included in the bogus English copy of the Treaty.

Whereas, that word is not in the genuine Draft … which likewise, explains why “Forests” is not in the Te Reo Treaty Document either.

Yet, it is now deviously being taken as meaning Maori should be handed the ownership of our entire DoC Estate!  Hence, another example of an ongoing attempt at takeover of what they have no legitimate “right” to.

CONCLUSION:  

A lot of people still won’t want to accept that so many aspects have been twisted to advantage Maori.  They’ll be asking how fraud of such magnitude could possibly have been enabled to occur.

Well, after the Activists’ first victorious scam in the 1970’s was accepted by unscrupulous Politicians, mercenary Lawyers, hero Judges, woke University Professors, PC Historians, despising bureaucrats, and biased Media … the Radicals soon learnt that it’s easy to get what they want by devious manipulation.

And the best bit is that those who’ve been conned, imagine they came up with it themselves, out of misguided consideration, and in unwarranted fairness to a Race of people who have been oppressed, due to colonisation.  By wrongly blaming it for Maori failure … whilst completely ignoring the myriads of beneficial aspects that came from being colonised.             

With the consequence that due to this unjustified virtue signalling, the Maori Elite are laughing all the way to the Bank.

But the worst thing about it all is that, having got away with it so easily, they have their sights firmly set on ultimate “CONTROL”.  With us being at their mercy.

And they are well and truly on their way to achieving their goal.  Because it has reached the stage where they’ll not only be accepted into a future Co-governance agenda, but the seriously frightening bit is that they’ll hold power of ‘VETO’ over the rest of us.

That means they will have the final say in everything – thus ultimate control to hold the rest of us, our property and our rights, to ransom.

ANOTHER PROPOSED “TREATY” RACKET

April 2, 2026
, , , , , , Maori, Treaty of Waitangi

Guess what! The pale faces of the tribal elite have just thought up a new way of extracting more money out of the long-suffering taxpayer. This time it’s TEETH.

That master of one-sided bias and misinformation, the taxpayer funded Radio New Zealand, reported on 20 March, 2026, that the reason why so many Maori have bad teeth is because of “colonisation”. Without bothering to check the accuracy of what it was reporting it gave its piece the blazing headline of “Calls grow for Universal Te Tiriti consistent dental care”. Where in the Treaty can be found – or even implied – anything to do with teeth? Nowhere, as it was a treaty of cession (Article 1) by the chiefs to get rule by a single sovereign so as to bring about a much needed peace and good order to a land and society that was being destroyed by endless tribal war and cannibalism.

Some character called Jasmine Taankink, speaking for “Dental For All” claimed that “poor oral outcomes for Maori could not be separated from colonisation”. She went on, “We know that upon arrival to Aotearoa [she doesn’t even know the name of the country], English settlers were really impressed with the overall physical health of our tupuna Maori, especially their oral health……Our tupuna Maori didn’t have cavities, they didn’t have massive oral health problems. So poor oral health is just another negative implication of colonisation and us not being able to exercise our tino rangatiratanga”. She said that solutions must be grounded in “Maori led approaches. We have the expertise within our own communities to develop solutions that work for us”, implying that dental treatments that work for all other human beings somehow do not work for “Maori”.

This outburst was reinforced by Leeann Waaka, described as a “dental therapist of the Maori Dental Association”. [Yes, they even have to have a race-based dental association that is separate from the rest of New Zealand]. Leeann Waaka is by appearance European but, like so many on the separatist express, she has disfigured her chin by having it etched with scribble that resembles a map of the London Underground. This, of course, gives them more “street cred” in the highly lucrative separatist industry. This is what she said, “pushing for a Te Tiriti consistent system which would mean properly RESOURCING Maori providers and enabling iwi and hapu to design services that meet the needs of their people”. No dental qualifications needed! Just more money for iwi and hapu.

The key word in her quote is, of course “resourcing” which means sucking on the teat of the taxpayer in a very big way just as the corrupt and worthless Whanau Ora health racket has poured money into the tribes without any apparent positive results. Other people of all races go to the doctor, dentist and hospitals when they need to but Maori are deemed to be so different from all other human beings that they have to have their own non-science based “health system”. Why don’t they just call it a money racket and be done with it?

In demanding “resourcing” from the taxpayer they are following the lead of Whanau Ora which was set up in 2010 by the Maori Party co-leader, Tariana Turia – another example of John Key cheating the taxpayer by caving  in to the demands of the tribal elite. Its stated purpose “to provide health and social services to Maori” was not only racist but every bit as deceitful as Mrs. Turia’s earlier claim that the colonisation of New Zealand was a “holocaust” This was a straight out lie and brings into question her credibility on any other matter.

Her Whanau Ora, which has already cost the taxpayer hundreds of millions of dollars, is more a slush fund for iwi than a health service. It has created numerous back office jobs and private ticket clipping without producing any noticeable improvement in the health of Maoris.

As soon as it got off the ground thousands of people claiming to be “Maori” were able to access up to $20,000 of Whanau Ora cash for family get-togethers, as Winston Peters told Parliament on 7 February, 2012. He said that many of those who allocated all these hundreds of millions of dollars on behalf of Whanau Ora were working for the recipients (their own families, tribe), creating a conflict of interest.

Otaki’s Rahui Rugby and Sports Club received $60,000 in 2011 “to undertake whanau development research on resilience and community leadership” – a “bro-ocracy” in Mr. Peters’ words. One Hawkes Bay “whanau” of only twenty members received $5,000 to run a hui (booze-up) to “finalise spiritual balance” and “family development”; this included $500 each for two “facilitators”, $400 for a venue, $1,000 for a hangi, $600 for a chef, a $500 administration fee (of course!), $300 for travel, and $1,200 for “resources”. And there is no reason to suppose that giving tax dollars to unqualified iwi and hapu for TEETH would be any different.

To say that the poor state of teeth of to-day’s part-Maoris is a result of colonisation is a lie for which any radio station other than Radio New Zealand would be utterly ashamed. As for stating that those Europeans who had early contact with Maoris were impressed by their teeth and general good health, all the evidence points in the other direction.

Fern root was more or less their daily sustenance whereas kumera was regarded more as an occasional luxury. They would dig, dry, beat and roast the fern root and then chew it. In the words of John Nicholas who accompanied Samuel Marsden to New Zealand in 1814-5: “Being thus prepared for use, the cooks throw it [the fern root] round in handfuls to the chiefs and other persons, who chew it till all the sacharine or nutritive matter is extracted; and, spitting out the fibrous part, they go on again and continue in this manner till they have satisfied their appetites. The fern root, when hot, has a pleasant, sweetish taste and, on being steeped in water, deposes a glutinous substance resembling jelly”. (Narrative of a Voyage to New Zealand, Vol. I. P. 190-1)

War parties ate only fern root as it was the food of Tu, the god of war, “kumera and all other kinds of food are forbidden till the war is over”. (Te Rou, or the Maori at Home, John White, P. 114) However, the constant gnawing of the tough roots of the fern as well as the gritty shellfish and other hard foods wore away the teeth so that by about the age of twenty the teeth at the back of the mouth were worn to stumps. It didn’t help that they also chewed the big stalks of the pampas grass (toetoe).

“Early European observers such as Captain Cook frequently misjudged the age of Maoris as their toothless state made them appear much older than they were”, wrote Bill Benfield in The Third Wave; Poisoning the Land. (P. 14) Needless to say, colonisation brought dental care as the first decades of the nineteenth century saw tremendous strides in the skills and knowledge of dentistry throughout the Western world. Part-Maoris of to-day, who have their teeth, have reason to be grateful for this aspect of colonisation, which lifted them out of a veritable dental disaster with all its pain and inconvenience.

The poor state of their teeth was matched by the poor state of their general health. In the words of the early New Zealand historian, Elsdon Best, who was able to observe the early Maoris, “Native knowledge of medicine may be described as non-existent in former times. No attempt was made to study it because it was believed that sickness and disease were caused by atua (evil spirits).”

One of the worst failings, based on superstition and enforced by the wretched tohungas, was to abandon the sick and the dying into some outhouse away from the huts, as it was believed that to die in a normal hut would thereby make that hut tapu (forbidden). “So, in order to save the house for future use, when death was expected the sick man would be taken to an open shed,” wrote Rev. James Buller in his book, Forty Years in New Zealand. (P. 219) And the Church of England missionary, Rev. William Williams in his book, Christianity Among the New Zealanders, “The friends of the dying person prevented every kind of food from being given to them, water only being allowed. Thus the poor sufferer was literally starved to death” (P. 184) To-day, thanks to colonisation, their descendants die in comfortable hospitals and similar places.

It was the early Protestant missionaries who first introduced the natives to health care and Western medicine but it was an uphill struggle against the power of the tohungas who didn’t want to lose their influence. In the 1840s a small number of hospitals were set up by the colonial authorities specifically for Maoris to be treated with Western medicine. Improvement in health came first to those Maoris who had the greatest contact with Europeans, and it spread steadily throughout the nineteenth century.

Many of the natives suffered from sore eyes. They had difficulty opening them until the missionary, Thomas Kendall, started curing them by using goulard. It was believed that the prevalence of sore eyes was caused by their sleeping so often in the open air, under sometimes heavy dews and with their heads uncovered. Over the generations since colonisation many Maoris have been able to extend their optical powers by wearing European invented glasses, including the current co-leader of the Maori Party, Rawiri Waititi, who, despite ranting against colonisation and its effects at every turn, wears glasses on his own ink-stained face, thus making himself an object of both ridicule and hypocrisy.

With the introduction of Western medicine and dental care the average life expectancy of Maoris rose from 20 to 25 years (1840) to 77.1 years for women and 73.4 years for men in 2019. As they say in law, res ipsa loquitur (the thing speaks for itself).

Maoris have benefited enormously from the blessings of colonisation and are now living almost four times as long as when they led such unhealthy lives before European settlement. The hospitals and doctors and dentists that they have benefited from have been the fruits of Western civilisation with its superior knowledge and science. The hospitals and health care have been paid for mainly by European New Zealanders for no group contributes less to taxation on a per capita basis than Maoris. Similarly no group is more of a burden on the taxpayer than these same people. Their latest demand for “resourcing” so that unqualified members of tribes can be paid for giving dental care and treatment is yet another trick that they are trying to play on the rest of us. That Radio New Zealand were too dumb to work this out tells us all we need to know about its ignorance and bias.

More information on the advantages to Maori of British colonisation can be found in the book, New Zealand; the Benefits of Colonisation, by Adam Plover. Available from: www.trosspublishing.com

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