New Zealand Nonsense 2 – Voting by Race: Unequal Maori Seats

August 22, 2024
, , , Maori

The author of this article is John Robinson, author of the recently published book, “Who Really Broke the Treaty?” published by Tross Publishing.

I am a scientist, a mathematician. It always seemed obvious that the aim was to work with
numbers to uncover the truth. That was impossibly naïve; now I know that mathematics is a
way to confuse the layman and hide some very shady goings on, to ‘dazzle them with
numbers’ – all in the service of some demanded dogma, all OK so long as the boss and
paymaster is kept happy. Nowhere do we find integrity in New Zealand.

Seats in the New Zealand Parliament are defined by race; 7 of the 72 electoral seats are Maori
seats. This satisfies the first tenets of racism, a belief in race and separation of people by race
in government.1 The resultant unequal representation, with far fewer votes required for each
Maori Member of Parliament, is undermining a basic tenet of democracy – equality of votes.

When I was analysing statistics through the 1980s and 1990s, I worked with a variety of
measures of one particular group, Maori. Each related to actual persons: sole Maori who
ticked only the Maori box on the census form, ethnic Maori who ticked that and perhaps
some other box, numbers reported by police and health workers based on their judgement or
in answer to a question, and so on. There were many, differing measures, but I understood
how each was gathered; there is no such clarity here.

A several-step process is followed to determine the number of these Maori seats. The
calculations are based on total population numbers (all ages) rather than those of voting age
or on numbers of registered voters (of Maori on the Maori roll). Given the more youthful
Maori population, this introduces a bias in favour of Maori over-representation.

“We used the following steps for each record (whether sourced from 2018 Census response
or admin enumeration (Stats NZ, 2019b), until we obtained a Yes or No for Maori descent:

  1. Start with the respondent’s actual response.”2 This is like the old “ethnic Maori” count,
    and is 625,600.
  2. If response for Maori descent is not ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ use: a. 2013 Census as first priority, and b. DIA birth records as second priority.” This introduces a further 134,300 ‘Maori’ to the count. Nowhere is there any opportunity for choice, where a person may state whether they have any significant Maori identity. The State has defined your ethnicity.
  3. If response for Maori descent is still not ‘Yes’ or ‘No’, use ‘within household donor’ imputation. Find the person of closest age in the usual residence and copy their Maori descent response as long as the response is a Yes or No value.” It seems that if you live with a Maori, you are held to be a Maori. This introduces a further 56,600 ‘Maori’.
  4. If response for Maori descent is still not ‘Yes’ or ‘No’, use 2018 Census iwi responses. If there is a valid iwi response in 2018 Census then set Maori descent to Yes. If Maori descent remains as missing or as Don’t Know, Refused to Answer, Response Unidentifiable, Response Outside Scope, or Not Stated then CANCEIS (the CANadian Census Edit and Imputation System) donor imputation was used to set a value of Yes or No.”

These last steps introduce a further 80,000 ‘Maori’. Do you understand what they are doing,
and why? I don’t.

The total “Maori descent electoral population” is then 896,600. The number of these ‘Maori’
has been artificially increased by 43%, from 16.4% to 19.1% of the New Zealand population.

The next step in determining the number of Maori seats is to calculate the “Maori electoral
population (MEP)”, by multiplying “the 2018 Census Maori descent usually resident
population count” (which is the “Maori descent electoral population” noted above) by “the
proportion of enrolled Maori descent electors who choose the Maori electoral roll.”

There is a recognition here that this will take into consideration those who are not of an age to
vote: “This means that the MEP includes people who are not enrolled on the electoral roll
(such as children)”3 , which inflates Maori numbers due to their more youthful population.

The MEP is then 472,397. Take care to not be confused by the very similar words used here
(I was): the “Maori descent electoral population” (also known as the “Census Maori descent
usually resident population count”) is very different from the “Maori electoral population”. If
clarity had been intended, there would have been a better choice of labelling words. None of
these is a count of actual people, a real population of individuals – apart from that first count
of respondents to a census question answering to a question concerning ethnicity.

The number of seats is then based on a South Island quota to suggest that should be a
population of 67,582 for each seat, and thus 7.23 Maori seats, rounded off to 7 Maori seats.
The suggestion here that there is a slightly greater population for each Maori seat than for
general seats is false, being based on that considerably inflated MEP Maori population
calculation, not on real people.

The result in voting power is a considerable inequality. In the 2023 elections there were
39,398 valid votes per general electorate and 25,974 valid votes per Maori general electorate. 4
The ratio is 1.52, and each Maori vote has a 52% greater value than a non-Maori vote. That
discrepancy is largely the consequence of the deliberate and forced set of calculations
summarised above. This is the destruction of true democracy, where all votes must be of
equal value.

The further requirements in my definition of racism have been satisfied: counting, and
exaggerating, race-based numbers, and providing special, extra powers to the chosen race.

There is never any thought of checking the validity of this process. The Government may
claim that: “There are approximately equal electoral populations in each Maori and general
electoral district.” But this is an artificial Maori population, numbers generated through
convoluted calculations and not real people – more nonsense creating race-based inequality.
If votes were of equal value with equal electoral populations, there would be five Maori MPs
elected by race (the ratio of 4.6, rounded up), not seven.

1 Robinson J. New Zealand nonsense (one). Sovereignty and defining Maori. The first note
in this series.
2 NZ Govt., “Deriving the 2018 Maori descent electoral population”,
https://www.stats.govt.nz/methods/deriving-the-2018-maori-descent-electoral-populaton.
3 NZ Govt., “The mathematics of electorate allocation in New Zealand based on the outcome
of the 2018 Census and Māori Electoral Option 2018”,
https://www.stats.govt.nz/methods/the-mathematics-of-electorate-allocation-in-new-zealand-
based-on-the-outcome-of-the-2018-census-and-maori-electoral-option-
2018/#:~:text=The%20Electoral%20Act%201993%20arose,the%20separate%20M%C4%81
ori%20electoral%20roll.

A Selection of the Lies/Deceit of Jacinda Ardern

August 3, 2024
, , , , , , , Jacinda Ardern

“The vaccine we are using in New Zealand is safe and effective”. As this book has shown, this is not so.

“Not only will there be no forced vaccinations, but those who choose to opt out won’t face any penalties at all”. This was proved to be a lie by her own words a month later when she said on 22nd October, 2021, “Anyone who is not vaccinated right now will not be able to enjoy the freedoms of other New Zealanders”.

During a protest against the vaccine at Wanganui on 3rd November, 2021, Ardern denied that the government had “flip-flopped” on its promise not to mandate vaccinations when it had already mandated them for border workers, health workers and teachers.

“We will continue to be your single source of truth.” This would have to be her biggest lie to date as the contents of this book amply show.

“There is no mandate around children being vaccinated – it is up to a parent or caregiver”. No, it’s not as 12 to 18 year olds were being vaccinated at school without their parents’ consent.

When it was announced in January, 2022, that New Zealand’s cost of living had had its biggest annual jump in three decades the ACT leader, David Seymour, said, “The government’s relentless borrowing and spending has also added to the cost of just about everything. Locking the economy down and borrowing $50 billion so far has left us with a mountain of debt and rising prices”. This statement was supported by the economist and former Governor of the Reserve Bank, Doctor Don Brash, who wrote, “No single factor explains the rise in inflation but the scale of the Government’s borrowing is certainly one contributing factor”. As Newshub reported, Ardern who, unlike Seymour and Brash, knows little, if anything about economics, “absolutely refutes claims that the Government’s billions of spending on Covid led to record inflation”. Not so.

On Election Night, 2020, Ardern promised, “We will be a party that governs for every New Zealander”. Instead, she has caved in to the bullying demands of her “Maori caucus” to pass large public resources to the tribal elite and grant more and more special, race-based rights to “part-Maoris”. This is not governing “for every New Zealander” but for the few with a bit of bullying power. Nor is her removal of ordinary freedoms and long held basic rights from those who choose not to have the Covid jab “governing for every New Zealander”.

At the same time she promised that her government would be “the most honest, most transparent government that New Zealand has ever had”. So why is she implementing the He
Puapua Report under the radar and having it discussed by her officials only on marae and not at this stage in public?

“This government will….strengthen transparency around official information”. In the words of senior journalist, Andrea Vance, “Since then the number of faceless communications specialists has skyrocketed. The Government’s iron grip on the control of information has tightened. And it is harder than ever to get information. In my twenty years as a journalist this Government is one of the most thin-skinned and secretive I have ever experienced. Many of my colleagues say the same…..
At every level the Government manipulates the flow of information.”

The Treaty of Waitangi was a “partnership between the Crown and Maori”. No, it wasn’t. It was a full cession of sovereignty by the chiefs (Article 1) in return for granting all the people of New Zealand full rights as British subjects (Article 3). When Ardern was asked by a journalist to state what the three short, simple articles of the Treaty said, she was unable to do so.

At the 2020 Election Ardern and her Labour Party promised that “Labour will ensure that the major decisions about local democracy involve full participation of the local population from the outset”. Shorty after being elected to government Ardern allowed her Minister of Local Government (some would say her puppet-master). Nanaia Mahuta, to remove the right of ratepayers to call for a poll of local people whenever a council should go down the road of apartheid by voting for one or more race-based “Maori wards” in a municipality.

“We are one”, screamed Ardern in the wake of the mosques massacre as she pranced around in front of the cameras wearing an Islamic veil, the centuries old symbol of the suppression of women in Islam.

She knew that this was a lie because, at the very time she was uttering it, her government was trying to promote a racist piece of legislation, the Canterbury Regional Council (Ngai Tahu) Representation Bill, to enable this small private tribe to have two permanent seats on the otherwise democratically elected Canterbury Regional Council.

To burnish the racist credentials of her government even further, Ardern’s Budget of May, 2019, handed over $593 million of taxpayers’ money to specific race-based programmes that support not the poor and needy but people purely on the basis of their race, including $42 million for “Maori” students in education, $27.4 million for students of Pacific Island blood and their families, $98 million for “Kaupapa Maori”, $11 million to boost the Pacific Business Trust, and $12 million for rheumatic fever programmes purely for Maori and Pacific Island children. What about other children?

To compound her racism, hypocrisy and deceit she said in Christchurch on 20th March, 2019, “Let New Zealand be a place where there is no tolerance of racism”. With her usual contempt for the intelligence of New Zealanders she was brazenly saying one thing and doing the exact opposite.

In 2021 she misled local councils by telling them that the Government’s proposed theft of council owned water assets in the form of “Three Waters” would be “voluntary” when the decision to make it compulsory had already been made, according to a document dated July, 2021. She compounded her dishonesty by then denying that she had misled the councils.

“I haven’t seen evidence of the kinds of issues [China’s interference in Australian politics] in Australia here in New Zealand” or that “foreign nations [read: China] had any undue influence in New Zealand”. Is she blind, crooked or stupid? What about all the six figure donations to the National Party by China Inc., the commercial arm of China’s dictatorship, ($180,000 from Oravida, $63,500 from China based Xiao Miao Fan, $150,000 from Gao Wei through his Alpha Group Holdings, $35,000 from Che Weixing (a.k.a. Christine Chee) and to Phil Goff’s first campaign for the Auckland mayoralty when the bulk of his funding ($416,115) came from China Inc, including $50,000 from Fu Wah International, the Peking based company building the $200 million Park Hyatt Hotel in Auckland which was about to seek building consents from Auckland Council for around $500 million of property development. These are evidence of China, New Zealand’s only potential enemy, interfering in our politics of which Ardern has seen nothing.

“I haven’t read the He Puapua Report”. Well, you wouldn’t see it if you instructed your officials not to show it to you. How can such an important document, the biggest proposed change to our constitutional arrangements since 1840 as it proposes the destruction of our unitary system of government and its replacement by a new, apartheid like structure in which the tribal elite will have the whip hand over all other New Zealanders, not be seen by the Prime Minister unless she instructed them not to show it to her?

“I’ve given you my word. You will not have a capital gains tax under a Labour led government that I lead,” she said during the party leaders’ debate before the 2020 Election” A few months later her government forced parliament into urgency to ram through a doubling of the “bright-line test”, doubling the length of time that investors have to hold a property in order to avoid paying tax on its capital gain when they sell. This was simply a capital gains tax by another name.

“My primary goal is to manage Covid with as few restrictions on our daily lives as possible…and to accelerate our economic recovery”. Her actions belie her words – as shown throughout the book. “All of us actually want to move on [and return to normal]; we’re putting ourselves in the best possible position to do that”. So, why continue the colour “red” on the traffic light system, why persist with mandates and vaccine passes when they are unnecessary since with Omicron the fully vaccinated
are just as likely to contract the virus as the unvaccinated – as the Government’s own figures show (See page 157).

Christopher Luxon: ” Ardern leads the most divisive government in recent times”.

Ardern: “I totally disagree with that“.

This is Appendix A of the book, “A Jab in the Dark; Covid Vaccines and the new Health Dictatorship”, by Ron Asher. Published by Tross Publishing and available for $35 (including postage within New Zealand).

“It’s time to boycott “Made in China’ Products”

July 28, 2024
, , , , China, Democracy

China, ruled by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) since 1949, is New Zealand’s only potential enemy. Its authoritarian leader, Xi Jinping, is not only threatening other Pacific nations such as Taiwan and the Philippines with war but is also at war by other means with all Western democracies, including New Zealand.

Shortly after he came to power in 2013 Xi (now Fuhrer for life) launched a war against what he called the West’s “Seven Deadly Sins” in Document No. 9. These “sins” are, in fact, the very foundations on which our democracy and freedoms rest and for which our servicemen gave their lives in two world wars. According to Xi these “Deadly Sins” include: constitutional democracy (including the rule of law), universal values (freedom, democracy, human rights, etc.), a civil society, neo liberal economics (free enterprise), a free media, and teaching any history that is outside the CCP’s narrative.

The Chinese embassy in Wellington – and its various agents – spy on both students from China at New Zealand universities as well as New Zealanders, e.g. businessmen doing business with China and indeed anyone who expresses any criticism of its brutal government. In 2021 state-sponsored Chinese hackers made a cyber attack on the New Zealand parliamentary network just as they had done to the Australian parliament in 2019. These are not the actions of a friendly country.

China is seeking economic dominance of New Zealand in order to prise us away from our traditional friends and allies (Australia, Britain, U.S.A., Canada), these being the only countries that could protect our sovereignty and our rights from an aggressive bully – be it the Japanese Empire in the 1940s or China in the 2020s.

To build up its power so that it can intimidate other (and smaller) Pacific nations China is engaged in a programme of great military expansion, spending more on weaponry than all the other Asian countries combined. Why?

It is able to finance this massive military expenditure by its growing economy which is largely funded by trade with other countries, including New Zealand which so foolishly put its head in the jaws of this dragon in 2008 by means of the notorious China-New Zealand Free Trade deal. Every time that you buy a China made shirt at the Warehouse or a China made electric heater at Briscoes you are contributing to the strengthening of the economy – and the military – of the only country that can arguably be classified as a potential enemy of New Zealand’s.

Furthermore, you are also contributing to one of the worst slave labour systems on the planet. An important reason for China’s economic success is that millions of its people in detention (prison and labour camps) are forced to work like slaves in factories producing consumer goods for the West.

Take Dongguan prison for example in the booming factory area of Guangdong province. The reason why this area contains so many prisons is its proximity to the great export hubs of Shenzen and Guangzhou on the lower reaches of the Pearl River delta, reputedly the world’s largest export manufacturing centre. All the prisoners are required to work like unpaid slaves all day in the factories in which, in many cases, the senior prison officers have a financial interest.

The 15 factories in which the 5,400 inmates of Dongguan prison are forced to work are built around the prison complex – so interwoven is the prison system with the manufacturing sector. It certainly beats having to pay wages which, of course, is why so many China made products are so cheap. The prisoners have to march to work each morning, kicking their legs high and singing “We are happy to go to work to-day” – a song that dates back to the Mao era and which countless millions of prisoners have been forced to chant over the years. “A missed step or a false note will see the guards bring out their tasers and pepper spray,” wrote Angus Grigg and Lisa Murray in the Australian Financial Review.

If one does not produce the required daily quota with one’s over-worked hands, ritual beatings, torture and solitary confinement are meted out by the sadistic guards. “The [prison] boss is not just the director of a prison but the manager of a business”, explained the former “justice” minister, Zhang Fusen. Both guards and managers have their salaries tied directly to the output of the prisoners, hence the brutality towards anyone who might not reach the daily quota. 

This prison system, with more than two million victims, is worse than slavery, and those politicians who promote trade with China and those businessmen who import all these things to New Zealand are contributing to one of the greatest crimes in history.

Westerners who buy Chinese goods are also collaborators in the crime of propping up the most murderous and oppressive regime on the planet. The bigwigs at Briscoes, the Warehouse, Walmart and other Chinese dependent retailers and importers would declare that their goods are not made by prison labour but, as the Sunday Star-Times reported on 30th June, 2013, “Such is the opacity and diversity of global supply chains to-day that establishing a clear link can be difficult”. Most of the companies importing Chinese goods don’t know where or how their products are made and they make no effort to find out for fear of learning the truth. So, those who buy Chinese made goods are not only aiding the rearmament of New Zealand’s only potential enemy but are also supporting a system of brutal slave labour.

Even when it is not prison labour the conditions of workers inside China’s factories are deplorable. In those factories that make iPads for Apple the workers toil for 15 hours a day, week in and week out, with no holidays apart from about five days over Chinese New Year. After each day’s long shift is completed they are taken to dormitories near their workplace to sleep. These dormitories, segregated for men and women, have no privacy. Children as young as twelve are employed on the work chains. The workers on the chain have to insert a particular electronic component, having only one to two seconds to do so. The repetitive nature of the work causes permanent injuries. Some have to use a dangerous chemical to clean the screen of each product. Wages are about $2 an hour, preventing them from affording accommodation outside the dormitories. 

In May, 2010, seven workers committed suicide and so they put “anti-suicide” netting around the dormitory windows. But Apple made a profit of US$6 billion in the first quarter of 2011 and that was all that mattered.

A further reason not to support China by buying its goods or services is the murderous and oppressive nature of its gangster regime. Since 1949 the CCP have murdered more people than any other regime in history. It suppresses all the basic freedoms that Westerners take for granted such as freedom of speech, of association and of religion. Christian bishops and ministers are imprisoned, churches demolished and Christmas and Easter worshippers beaten up. The regime, based on the power of the gun, uses torture as a routine part of police investigation and oversees a system of child labour and environmental destruction without precedent in history. 

It has brutally killed and suppressed the Tibetans and the Uighurs and is now threatening the peaceful democracy of Taiwan with invasion. One would have to be a morally debauched person even to contemplate buying anything that is made in that toxic country. Since no National or Labour government would ever have the courage, that patriotism or the human decency even to suggest that there is something wrong with making ourselves economically dependent on China it is up to each and every New Zealander – all five million of us – to do the deed ourselves by refusing to buy anything that is China made or has a China made component in it.

For further information on China’s increasing economic dominance of New Zealand, see In the Jaws of the Dragon: How China is Taking over New Zealand and Australia” by Ron Asher. Available from Tross Publishing.

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