Bob Brockie MNZM is a New Zealand cartoonist, scientist, columnist and graphic artist. He was an editorial cartoonist for the National Business Review from 1975 to 2018, specialising in political satire.
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Bob Brockie MNZM is a New Zealand cartoonist, scientist, columnist and graphic artist. He was an editorial cartoonist for the National Business Review from 1975 to 2018, specialising in political satire.
Do you seriously want to bundle NZ into a group of name changers like Burma, Ceylon, Southern Rhodesia and a bunch of African tinpot failed states??????? Name change is the first step down the ladder to chaos. In Ceylon the long and bloody civil war started because that fool Bandaranaike insisted on putting the Sinhalese letter Sri on car number-plates in Tamil areas. We know that Jabcinda is going out of her way to foment trouble between part-maoris and non-maoris. Do not help her.
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I think I've figured out what the problem is. While trying to make sense of what the cartoonist meant by Te Kaha Manaia, I decided to look up Manaia;
manaia 3.(noun) lizard.
Push back has begun in earnest.
Taxpayer's union's 3 waters nationwide roadshow and several challenges in the high court.
It is happening because we are letting it happen, and secondly most maoris are not grave diggers, they are fully aware of what the outcome could be.
The cliché: ‘deafening silence’ is very much the situation where the Mahuta family and its nepotistic chicanery are concerned; that silence coming from mainstream media unable to break the chains of thraldom to Maori and silent in the face of a blatant power grab for fear of being called ‘racist’. This is the catchall, reflective response when any lack of semblance of democracy and fairness is questioned in this country; a New Zealand that is being pushed inexorably towards apartheid and positive discrimination, with their attendant lack of equality, fairness and morality. The media are afraid to admit it, preferring to apologise or publicise the illusory wonders of Maoridom, but when the values and virtues of colonisation are raised, silence…