I LOVE this so much.

[paco@infosec.exchange]

@chris They channel something ancient and powerful and I feel rather milquetoast and small by comparison. Good on them. They are a credit to their ancestors.

[peterbrown@mastodon.scot]

@chris @b9AcE plenty of treaties were made and signed with the native tribes of North America but 95% of them there were subsequently broken by the Europeans as they moved further west.

[chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca]

@peterbrown @b9AcE that's correct, but NZ has the distinction of being the only place where what became the entire country, the Indigenous population signed a treaty en masse and as you said, held the British Crown to it.

[aka_quant_noir@hcommons.social]

@paco @chris

They are a credit to ALL ancestors. Ours too. We should never have allowed powerful and wealthy forces to corrupt us!

[intothewestaway@mastodonapp.uk]

@chris @b9AcE

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@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] The power of Maori influence for me is best exemplified by the singing of Pokarekare ana, a love song, after the acceptance of the amendments to the Marriage Act to provide for equal rights for everyone, 11 years ago. This is how government represents people. #loveislove https://youtu.be/q9pOJ8Bc_-g?si=fMdMz9DaJcF92EiT

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[blogdiva@mastodon.social]

they signed the treaties after the Maori shred them to pieces, that's why. their fierceness is recorded in oral histories of indigenous people in el Cono Sur, that's how far an why their fame traveled.

@chris @b9AcE

[zl2tod@mastodon.online]

@chris

Calling this mob a centre-right government does them a disservice.

They are a far-right government led by skinhead Christopher Luxon, and the most corrupt government I can remember in my reasonably long life.

This bill is an attempted coup. It is trying to invalidate New Zealand's most important constitutional instrument with a cynical bunch of specious lies.

The date of this bill's introduction was brought forward to conveniently coincide with Luxon's trip to APEC.

@b9AcE

[chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca]

@zl2tod @b9AcE thank you for that!

[caution@tech.lgbt]

@chris @b9AcE I don’t like to promote Substack, but there’s a NZ sports blogger who breaks this down as a play by play with perfect linkouts for context if needed. She does an incredible (and supportive ) job of making it understandable for thems with minimal awareness of the political and historical context.

https://open.substack.com/pub/alicesoapbox/p/play-by-play

[sleepy62@social.vivaldi.net]

@chris @b9AcE
Truly awesome! Love the stenographer int he middle trying to record whats happening

[chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca]

@Caution @b9AcE thank you!

[chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca]

@sleepy62 @b9AcE hahaha right? I would love to see Hansard!