THE Kiwi “Voice” bureaucracy, otherwise known as “co-governance” operatives, are on a vandalistic rampage against “colonial vegetation” ie the century-old oak, pine and other European tree species that partially cover old volcanic cones across the city of Auckland.
Strangely enough, the indigenous wildlife doesn’t mind perching or nesting in exotic tree species but they don’t get a say in this and, ironically, have lost swathes of their habitat as the rabid neo-Marxists attack the imperialist trees that invaded the pristine landscape a century or so ago.
In Auckland a “co-governance” body called Tupuna Maunga Authority (TMA) is now in charge of these little mountains. They are made up of six tribal (iwi) representatives and six representing “the other people of Auckland”, as they are officially referred to. The non-Maori representatives are people who are actually elected council representatives. The “iwi” are appointed by themselves because they are at least part indigenous, and this makes them special, apparently.
According to the TMA in a media statement replacing exotic trees with natives on an Auckland volcanic cone will restore and enhance its “wairua and mauri”, which for the uninitiated means “spiritual essence and life force”. According to this new indigenous regime, such concepts are only understood by and affect indigenous people – or at least the part of their genetic make-up that is not English, Irish, Scottish or otherwise.
Dominic Wilson, TMA’s head of co-governance, told media in 2021: “The mana whenua world view is that the maunga (mountains) are distinct from other parks and open spaces, in that they are wāhi tapu – sites of immense spiritual, ancestral, cultural, customary, and historical significance to mana whenua.”
This is the standard indigenist spiel whether North American Indian, Australian Aborigine or New Zealand Maori or anywhere else facing this same UNDRIP political operation.
This “indigenous” (in reality Marxist-globalist) takeover of geographical features in New Zealand and Australia has been targeting so-called “sacred mountains” for some time now, starting with Ayres Rock/Uluru and now affecting other locations across the country including rocky climbing peaks in Western Victoria, Mt Warning in NSW and now the Glasshouse Mountains in Queensland.
But as suggested by Reality Check Radio host Paul Brennan, there’s something symbolic about chopping down non-native trees. Brennan is right, because destruction of colonialist history is part of the Marxist program. The Black Lives Matter and Antifa rioters who went on a rampage across the US and UK in the summer of 2020 made a point of attacking and toppling statues of historic figures in public parks.
Auckland’s volcanic cones were handed over to Maori trusts under the so-called Treaty of Waitangi settlements and are now managed under the co-governance system, which is little more than “indigenised” corporate control, in this case with the City of Auckland municipality. And of course the weak-kneed council bureaucrats go along with the UN-endorsed, politically correct program.
Auckland woman Averil Norman told Brennan the “iwi” plans to return the cones to a “pre-European state” involved the removal of 2200 mature trees, many more than 100 years old. In December 2019 she and her husband took the TMA and council to court and lost a judicial review. Then in March 2022 they won on appeal to stop the tree removals.
But this month the tree removals started again on Mt Richmond, Otahuhu. The TMA simply ignored the court ruling because it claimed it obtained a resource consent (permit) from the city in September 2021 to remove 300 exotic trees for “health and safety reasons”.
The TMA had already removed a grove of 100 olive trees at the same location, where native owls roosted. Mrs Norman said other exotic trees that had been removed were a nesting area for herons. The TMR has a budget of $28 million a year or $40,000 a week per mountain for maintenance – provided by Auckland ratepayers.
When TMA got resource consent in September 2021, residents of Otahuhu had the opportunity to object, but had no funds to fight the inevitable legal battles so they had to let it go.
Indeed Ed.
In Europe during the Ice Age, most trees were pines. Pine needles are basically curled up leaves that evolved as such, due to the cold at the edge of the glaciers where they originated. As the glaciers retreated, the pines followed, and slowly colonised the newly exposed European landmass.
As animals and people simultaneously migrated north and colonised these new northern lands, the latter brought their temperate seeds with them, and planted them accordingly. Most ‘indigenous’ northern European plants were actually imported from 10,000 B.C. onwards. Prior to this, there was only two mile deep ice caps.
I doubt if these Kiwis will be as quick to cut their vineyards?
Thank you Dr for those additional enlightening comments in regard to the vegetation of England. It just goes to underline the absurdity of the Kiwi anti-tree campaign.
Aussiemal: In total agreement! In fact, I do know a couple indigenous who have spent their ENTIRE grown up lives on a disability pension – having never worked even one single day in their life. And, I’m far from against aboriginals – a brother spent 25 odd years with an aboriginal woman until his death at age 54. And a sisters daughter just gave the family a grand nephew, now 15 months old.
That makes me sad. When you destroy what is good in the world, what you are left with is second rate. Seems like so much in the world today is bent on destruction.
Seeing that certain individuals with indigenous parentage or are part indigenous, are not happy to live as a Westerner, what if they were now deprived of the Western way of life and had their social benefits withdrawn? Who of them would willfully return to the bush to eke out life hunting to eat and no clothing for warmth. You can’t have your cake and eat it too. (An old English saying.)
Madness of the YES vote
I like Sharon’s response. Can they manage without all these nasty colonial benefits.
This all sounds like reverse-engineering, – Marxist social reverse-engineering of course.
But how far back will they take it?
It is now known that the Amazon rain forest is not entirely natural, but instead, insurmountable evidence reveals that the Amazon is basically an extremely large garden of cultivated flora that was planted there by an ancient culture using a phenomenal creation called ‘terra preta.’
Didn’t David Bellamy fight to protect the last remains of ‘original’ prehistoric Australasian flora that only survives in Tasmania?
Whenever people migrate, they take their useful seeds with them, this is how plants have always ‘colonised’ new territories. At the moment I’m picking off hooked seeds from my socks, and throwing them on the ground far away from where they hooked onto me: plants use animals this way. [Velcro was stolen from this principle!].
Most of England’s common trees and plants were introduced by the waves of invaders, such as Wolfsbane, which the Scythians brought as a military weapon, shall we return these to the Caucasus? or the Roman Oaks?, the apple and pear orchards, the numerous fruits, etc?
The original trees were large ferns, but nature decided to evolve and move on, – I suppose these imbeciles imagine nature got it all wrong?
That already started before the plandemic, with the ring barking of the 400 year old Separation Tree in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne in 2010. Gardens staff tried to save the tree by ‘bridge grafting’ redgum sapling bark across the damaged area. But the vandals returned 3 years later to finish the job. That time the tree didn’t survive.
That already started in Melbourne before the plandemic with the ‘ring-barking’ of the 400 year old Separation Tree in the Royal Botanical Gardens, Melbourne in 2010. Gardens staff attempted to save the tree by bridge-grafted redgum sapling bark over the 1 meter area, but the vandals came back 3 years later to finish the job. That time the tree died.
So destroy thousands of old growth trees that could have mitigated the devastating mudslides around Auckland’s volcanic cones during the recent geo-engineered record breaking floods. Hmm..
So I guess this minority band of government paid stooges being used to divide and conquer will be giving up colonial clothes, colonial cars, colonial mobile phones, colonial food, colonial houses, colonial money and benefits, colonial modcons such as washing machines, microwaves, televisions, stereos, fresh colonial water out of a tap, the list could really go on. How about if they don’t like NZ as it is then perhaps they need to jump in the waka and head back to Hawaii, mind you the canoe will have to be carved out by the ancient Hawaiian method after all one could not use colonial tools. The same stop over of Rorotonga as was part of the journey prior to their colonisation of NZ could still be utilised. Fibreglass for the craft would be out of the question, it’s a colonial invention. Ships and planes are out of the question too, again colonial modes of transport. There is one stipulation prior to their departure. They will have to replenish the Moa that they ate to extiction for the descendants of the Moriori and the Waitaha peoples who were already residing in NZ when they arrived, either that or pay them reparation for the loss of their food supply, land and their freedoms.
Editor, cairnsnews – “When TMA got resource consent in September 2021, residents of Otahuhu had the opportunity to object, but had no funds to fight the inevitable legal battles so they had to let it go”
I suggest that the same will apply for the Voice in Australia.
Reading the 26 page ULURU STATEMENT FROM THE HEART, which the PM assures us will be applied in full.
It appears that there are to be plenty of lawyers and “experts” permanently on hand to discourage (sorry, I mean assist) with any challenges to whatever the First Nation dictates, mandates, and enforces (their new laws) onto us the Second Nation or whatever they will call us.
Even better the expensive challenges will be dealt with in the present shonky corporation courts, and / or they will end up being heard / prosecuted in their very own (new) tribal / traditional courts.
Should be interesting, most certainly will not be boring.
It would be interesting to look into the diet of the indigenous people and see how much colonial species that diet includes -seeing as how they hunted so many indigenous species to extinction.