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Scott Hamilton RTM

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3 years

The anti-vax heckler at Ardern's press conference was Shane Chafin, who according to his own testimony was visited by police in the aftermath of the Christchurch terror attacks because of concerns he shared the terrorist's ideology. How did Chafin get so close to the PM?

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NZ Loyal supporter Ken Duncan has announced that he is preparing an affidavit that will show the party was robbed of votes due to software used by voting machines. He's not deterred by the fact NZ doesn't use voting machines.

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Could schadenfreude over Liz Gunn and Brian Tamaki discovering they are not in fact at all popular be the moment that heals a divided nation?

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1/15 Jill Bender teaches history at the Uni of North Carolina. She's dived into NZ archives, & returned with a story about alliances between Maori & Irish anti-imperialists in the 19th C Waikato & King Country. Bender has also found an old, long-forgotten, potent name: Piniana.

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1/7 I've noticed a lot of Pakeha on twitter saying, with the best intentions, that they are here in Aotearoa because of the Treaty of Waitangi. I understand what they are trying to say, but I'm pretty sure that, like me, they're here because the Treaty was broken.

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1/6 Here are hundreds of protesters preventing 30 players from expressing themselves at Rugby Park in 1981. Hundreds of thousands of rugby fans are also having their right to watch sport trampled on. It's important to resist the hard right's attempted redefinition of protests.

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6/6 When we put together Burr's racist politics, the racial explanation he gave on the night of the amputation, & the gratuitous nature of the amputation, then it's hard not think our courts have just endorsed a hate crime, rather than a legitimate act of self-defence.

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1/18 Richard Dawkins & his allies have been attacking the idea that Polynesians gained scientific knowledge during their thousands of years exploring the Pacific & settling lands like Aotearoa. Dawkins et al regard such an idea as a 21st C, 'woke' phenomenon. They're badly wrong

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4 years

Marx died in 1883. When Engels ventured into his departed friend’s study, he was bemused by the mess, & by the fact that the papers & books piled there had little to do with Europe & capitalism. One of the volumes Marx had been reading was Grey’s account of Maori mythology.

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1 In his new column my friend Chris Trotter argues NZ was never a white supremacist society, like South Africa or America. I think Chris' case rests on a false dichotomy & on a denial of the historical record. I want to argue against him & post a few old documents. (thread)

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Journalists should stop using the term "White Supremacist" unless they are referring to the specific race-driven ideology which animated the "Jim Crow" South and Apartheid-era South Africa.

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1/7 The debate about the meaning of the Treaty shouldn't be settled by partisan politics or polls. It should be settled by historical evidence. Here are 5 reasons why I believe David Seymour's wrong when he claims the Maori who signed the Treaty 1840 gave away all sovereignty.

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4 months

A few folks have been complaining about the Waitangi powhiri. Apparently the symbolic aggression involved in powhiri is barbaric & quite unsuitable for public events. I notice, tho, that the critics of the powhiri are not bothered by today's 21 gun salute.

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10 months

In '94 Auckland got its first gay pride parade. One observer didn't have a good time. Afterwards, he complained about obscenity & immorality & started a letter writing campaign to try to prevent future gay pride events. You might recognise his name. It was Julian Batchelor

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1/6 Pio Pio's Bill Burr has become a hero for some conservatives since he & his son were acquitted for cutting off the finger of a home invader. But Burr is no ordinary Kiwi farmer. He's a right-wing political activist, & he justified the amputation with racial language.

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2 years

1/9 Everyone knows about Japan's war 'stragglers' - those soldiers who hid out for years or even decades on jungle islands in the Pacific, unwilling to believe that the war was lost. But after both World Wars, NZ had its own strange stragglers.

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1/2 Invercargill mayor Nobby Clark thinks English has been 'bastardised' by absorbing Maori words. Nobby doesn't seem to realise that English was bastardised a long, long time ago - it has taken words from 350 different tongues. This pie chart gives a sense of English's diversity

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"I don't believe that we should mix Te Reo and English together," - Invercargill Mayor Nobby Clark doubles-down on his anti-Māori opinions at the 'Stop Co-Governance' rally on Saturday night.

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2 years

1/14 There's been a lot of discussion on social media about the new history curriculum for Aotearoa/NZ schools. If there's one thing that many commenters, liberal & conservative, agree on, it is that kids should be taught 'objective history'. But there's no such thing.

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1/2 Here's another 'segregated space' at Auckland Uni - the beautiful Maclaurin Chapel, which memorialises a former student who died fighting fascism in Spain. Only Christians tend to attend the chapel, but that doesn't mean non-Christian students are harmed by its existence.

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4 years

1/7 Sam Linden has a letter in the Dominion Post condemning the Maori Party's co-leader for claiming that Maori suffered a Holocaust at the hands of colonising Pakeha in the 19th century. Linden thinks that such language is insulting to Jewish victims of Hitler. I disagree.

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Scott Hamilton RTM

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2 years

1/2 There's been a furious response to the doco No Maori Allowed, with many conservative Pakeha insisting that stories of segregation in NZ are a 'woke' invention. Unfortunately for history-deniers, hundreds of stories of segregation are available in our old newspapers.

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1 year

1/3 After I posted about Kiribati last night, a fool tried to denigrate that country by calling it tiny. Kiribati is not only the largest nation in the world, it is larger than any empire that existed in the past. Its 33 motu are spread over 35 million square km of ocean.

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3 years

The best way to prevent Pakeha critics of Israel succumbing to anti-semitism is to remind them that they, too, are residents of a settler colony. The tragedy of Palestine, like the tragedy of Aotearoa, is part of the wider pattern of imperialism. These maps complement each other.

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Scott Hamilton RTM

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1/11 Some say Winston Peters can't be racist against non-whites because he is Maori. Ben Couch made the same argument in his defence in the 1970s & '80s. Couch's strange & sad life as an All Black & later a minister in Muldoon's government give us a clue to understanding Peters.

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1/7 Imagine that settler govts had not denied Maori the vote, that there had been no wars & confiscations, that Maori & Pakeha had come together in a hybrid culture. This might sound like a plot for an alt history novel, but in a remote part of NZ it was reality.

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Scott Hamilton RTM

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The Chinese Student Society is Auckland Uni's largest club. Like other clubs, it gets funding from the university & space - & it deserves both. We'll never hear Act criticising the CSS for 'segregationism.' The party's 'anti-racism' is, as ever, carefully aimed at Polynesians.

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11 months

Whilst thousands of Aucklanders sleep in garages or on couches or in shelters, an entire town is empty on the Rodney coast. We drove to Omaha beach today, thru lifeless streets of holiday McMansions. The homeless should march north, occupy Omaha, & take a holiday.

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Scott Hamilton RTM

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3 years

Owners of Puhoi's pub claim the outcry over their use of the word n****r is a product of 21st century cancel culture. But the word has long been used in NZ, & its use has long been opposed. In a Lyttleton restaurant in '28 a group of seamen found out how unpopular the word was.

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8 months

I've seen NZ leftists like Morgan Godfrey called terrorists & anti-semites for saying that Israeli policies are responsible for the tragedies in southern Israel & Gaza. But Haaretz, Israel's 3rd largest paper, is saying the same thing, as this quote from an editorial & tweet show

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Horrifyingly, but not surprisingly, Netanyahu has partners who prefer revenge to concern for captives. At a cabinet meeting, Smotrich said, “We have to be cruel now and not consider the captives overmuch.” This is unacceptable | Haaretz Editorial

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1/2 Winston Peters says spaces for Maori & Pasifika students at Auckland uni are reminiscent of the KKK. I think this photo of students at a capping parade is more reminiscent of the KKK. These spaces were set up as a response to the racism their users faced everyday in NZ.

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Scott Hamilton RTM

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1 year

I'd wager that more than a few of the redneck Pakeha cheering Richard Dawkins on twitter today were also cheering when Te Rehutai was racing for the America's Cup in 2021. That vaka was based directly on Polynesian craft, & thus benefitted from ancient Polynesian aquatic science.

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1 year

1/5 As he wanders from town to town, spreading a fantastic version of NZ history & making apocalyptic predictions of the future, Julian Batchelor is recycling a myth about 19th C NZ that is shared by far too many sensible & educated NZers. This myth needs quashing.

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Scott Hamilton RTM

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4 years

1/3 Wayne Jones will change the name of the Bully Hayes Bar. He'll consult Akaroa over a new name. It takes courage to admit a mistake. All Pakeha, myself certainly included, are on a learning journey in this colonial country. I'll be keen to have a drink at the renamed pub.

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1/3 I've just read an article that quotes the Maori & English versions of the Treaty, says they mean different things, & claims Maori didn't cede sovereignty in 1840. The article was not published by Te Pati Maori or The Spinoff. It appeared in a pro-settler newspaper in 1843.

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Scott Hamilton RTM

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2 years

1/14 Michael King has been dead 18 years, but his name is all over twitter. The people deploying it would be alienated by his great biography of Princess Te Puea & his passionate exploration of Moriori history. They've seized on one of King's errors to bash Maori.

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2 years

1/5 National MP Harete Hipango has justified attending an anti-vax protest by saying her Whanganui River tupuna fought for freedom. But during the smallpox epidemic of 1913 Maori of the river gathered to receive a vaccine, not protest it.

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11 months

Not all deaths are equal in NZ. The 2 men shot dead in Auckland have been mourned by the media; their murderer has been excoriated. Yet an average of 2 construction workers die every month in NZ in workplace accidents, without attracting the attention of editors & newsreaders.

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Scott Hamilton RTM

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2 years

1/4 You may not recognise her face, but this person is your supreme leader. At least, she says she is. Kerre Reddy is a horse whisperer & anti-vaxxer from Eketahuna who calls herself the Chief Sheriff of NZ. She's one of the group of sheriffs who recently 'tried' the PM.

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1/7 Brian Tamaki's demanded a ban on gay people using the rainbow as a symbol. He says it should be reserved for Christians, because of its role in the story of Noah. But a carving in Te Awamutu museum reminds us of a rainbow god who was already old when the Bible reached NZ.

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1/6 Look at these four old codgers in a southern pub. They might be talking about the rugby or the racetrack. But they are demigods disguised as scruffy pensioners. Each one has recreated NZ in their art, turning what was dull & familiar into something rich & strange.

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Scott Hamilton RTM

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3 years

A friend's fed up with lockdown. He says he'll break the rules if it goes on. I tried a cricket analogy: when Mark Greatbach was facing the last few overs of the fifth day at Perth in '89, he didn't decide to have a slog. That'd mean throwing away 11 hours work. He kept blocking.

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1/2 Posie Parker probably needs a holiday. I hope she'll visit one of our tropical neighbours, where the Western notion of 2 genders is rejected & transgender people have ancient roles in society. It'd be hard to blame billionaires or Western decadence for fa'afine or leitis.

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Scott Hamilton RTM

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1/2 A Putin apologist told me Ukraine deserved invasion because it has a) biolabs & b) Nazis. I sent the chap these images. One shows some of our local Nazis; another shows our national biolab in Upper Hutt. If NZ gets invaded, you can blame me.

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A Winston devotee asked me if I wasn't afraid that Te Pati Maori would seize power & impose Nazism on NZ. I said I wasn't, because I was still too busy worrying about the Moscow & Cuban-armed Marxist Maori guerrillas Winston told us were coming back in 1985...

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1/7 National Party pollster David Farrar is trying to distance himself from John Ansell after Ansell's talk of a vaccine genocide & his death threat to a Labour MP. But Ansell's delusions were encouraged for years by Farrar & others on the mainstream right.

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1/5 @dpfdpf is asking for examples of cancel culture in NZ. Here are a couple. In 1907 the Seddon government cancelled Maori religion with the Tohunga Suppression Act. For 55 years it was illegal to attend a whare wananga or lead prayers to the old gods. Tohunga were jailed...

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Am speaking tonight and want to highlight the culture war around cancel culture. To save me looking up all the worst examples, can people share them here? Stuff like Faulty Towers being banned, JK Rowling books being literally burned etc

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1/7 Auckland Transport paid for an article in the NZ Herald about the history of Meola Road, which has just been reconstructed. But AT's piece doesn't mention that the road runs over land where war & ethnic cleansing were rehearsed in the 1860s.

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1/9 Taitusi Taufa is one of the scholars keeping Richard Dawkins up at night. In work for his PhD from Victoria University, Taufa used both traditional Polynesian & European science traditions. Taufa discovered unique & possibly medically useful molecules in Tongan sea sponges.

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1/8 A psychologist would have fun trying to understand what drives David Farrar to churn out blog posts about subjects he knows nothing about. I remember how he morphed into a literary critic during a controversy involving Eleanor Catton. Now he's an expert on Tonga.

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1/4 Convicted neo-Nazi terrorist & Brenton Tarrant supporter Phil Arps says he's joining the protest outside parliament, so he can lend his hand as a 'ZOG removal specialist'. Arps' language might seem bizarre, but it opens a window on many protesters' anti-semitic ideology.

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1/7 Apirana Ngata is the Maori authority that conservative Pakeha like to cite when they talk about the Treaty. Ngata several times wrote that the Treaty dissolved Maori sovereignty. But his career was a losing battle against the Maori majority that disagreed with him.

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1/18 There's been a lot of public discussion about the Treaty of Waitangi lately, but when I look at statements about the Treaty by conservative Pakeha I'm struck by an absence. The most popular traditional conservative argument against Maori sovereignty has almost disappeared.

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1/11 The Act Party has called for the repeal of parts of the Human Rights Act, which bans discrimination on racial grounds in NZ. Like its allies in the US - the senator Rand Paul, for example - Act argues that market forces can act as a safeguard against racist businesses.

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1/6 Julian Batchelor claims iwi who had lands seized by the state during the NZ Wars were justly punished for rebelling against the colonial government. But Batchelor, like all apologists for the confiscations, can't explain why pro-Crown iwi had their land confiscated.

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Scott Hamilton RTM

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In 2014 a band released a song about killing John Key & raping his kids. No one suggested that Key meet the band & hear their grievances. Yet today journos like Hosking & Edwards urge Ardern to 'dialogue' with people who wave signs calling for her death. It's a surreal attitude.

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1/32 Brenton Tarrant's murder of Christchurch Muslims is infamous, but the massacre at Surafend is little-known. 103 years ago today, Anzacs killed between 40 and 120 Muslims in that Palestinian village.

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1/9 This property was the stronghold of two Pakeha capitalists. One thrived in the 19th C, the other in the 21st. Both saw the property as the model for a new & sinister society. Both hoarded art here. Both uprooted communities of less fortunate NZers. & both suffered vengeance.

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6/6 Those who protested against anti-trans, anti-Muslim, & anti-abortion rhetoric today felt the morality of their cause & the effects of their protest were more important than one person's freedom to speak in Albert Park. They made the same calculation as the protesters in '81.

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Scott Hamilton RTM

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How can Act criticise NZ education, when we've produced so many new experts so quickly? Social media shows hundreds of newly minted climatologists & epidemiologists, as well as new historians discovering a secret Treaty & pre-Maori civilisations. A few are Act candidates...

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1/2 Savage Clubs were one of the strangest expressions of NZ European culture. This is Reg Seamark, 'rangatira' of the New Plymouth Savage Club. Clubs met in halls filled with faux-Maori carvings, called their visits to each other 'raids', & elected 'rangatira' & 'chief savages'

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I talked to a friend who monitors conspiracy theories today, & she told me that anti-vaxxers are morphing into Putinists. Many were once Q Anoners. What is constant, thru all these changes, is the fear of, or perhaps the desire for, some cataclysmic, world-altering event.

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1/2 For me the strangest part of NZ responses to the crisis in Gaza - public, media, & political responses - has been the lack of discussion of our army's presence on the Gazan border. We've been there for 41 years as part of the MFO, & yet our presence & role remains undiscussed

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1/3 I still see people arguing on twitter that it's no good learning te reo Maori, as the language is not understood outside NZ. They seem to think Maori is a linguistic isolate, a Pacific version of Basque. This is Kerry Howe's map of the Austronesian languages.

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3 years

The Traffic Light system's a blessing for Glen Eden Bookshop. The owners are outspokenly pro-vax; their shop windows reflect this. For weeks conspiracy theorists have been entering the shop without masks to harass them. Now the anti-vaxxers are on the outside, where they belong.

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An anti-trans meeting has been cancelled by Christchurch library; the Free Speech Union is upset. But last August FSU leader Elliot Ikilei promoted a petition to ban drag queens from reading to kids in Timaru library. Elliott isn't for free speech. He's for Christian bigotry.

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MEDIA RELEASE: Christchurch City Library ban of feminist group illegal -

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1/2 I went to Pakiri, where Maori landowners have placed a rahui on an eroding section of the beach. For years an Auckland company has been dredging nearby sandbanks & exporting the sand to Australia. The Environment Court is hearing arguments from the company & locals.

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1/2 I've just had my twitter account restored after being banned for 12 hours for posing a photo, one I copied and pasted from a 2018 NZ Herald news article, showing a sign outside William Burr's farm. I was initially told I could be banned for a week or even 'indefinitely'.

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4/4 For me, Reddy's occupation of Mt Lees, which seems to have petered out, symbolises the politics of the anti-vax & sovereign citizens' movements. She's desecrated a piece of our heritage in an attempt to satisfy some messianic & apocalyptic fantasy.

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If you're taking the kids to Coromandel in the school holidays, don't stay at Pauanui's Flame Lily B & B. The owners have ties to the Rhodesian museum in Mt Maunganui, & regularly host Rhodesian fascists. The Flame Lily was Rhodesia's national flower, a symbol of racial 'purity'.

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Imagine if Julian Batchelor said a Jewish elite, guided by Satanist ideology, was conspiring to destroy NZ. In 1977 Colin King-Ansell was convicted for saying those things in a leaflet. Batchelor has simply substituted Maori for Jews. Those who disrupt his meetings are justified.

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1/2 Simeon Brown's contrasting drunken Labourites with Nat MPs, who've always believed in 'personal responsibility'. Wasn't this bloke a Nat? He went on TV boozed & announced an election. Later that night his frightened aides had to let his tyes down to stop him driving.

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I'm very pro-vax, but I can appreciate why mistrust of the Ministry of Health might persist in some Maori communities. I wrote for The Spinoff about the epidemic of 1913, which saw the ministry imprison kainga & create Maori-only vaccine passports:

‘Let them starve’: The lockdown of 1913 and its lessons for today

History warns that we should be wary of the misuse of power in the name of public health.

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1 The cops who screamed past our place a couple of hours back are now guarding the local mosque. I'm happy about this, because I remember the Auckland aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. I was living in Sandringham at the time, & local mosques & halal butchers were vandalised.

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Kissinger is dead; his crimes are being recounted. One was the invasion of Cambodia. In '71-'72, as a favour to the US, NZ troops trained hundreds of Cambodian child soldiers at Dong Ba Thin camp in Vietnam. Journo David Barber took these photos & exposed the programme.

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1/2 Here is another sticker-poster being distributed before Anzac Day. When I wrote in 2021 about the RSA's white NZ policy & campaigns against 'Asiatics' I was called a traitor by Sean Plunket & others. But it was the RSA that betrayed its comrades.

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History is mercilessly ironic. In 1863 Otahuhu was the base for a white supremacist army that expelled Polynesians from Auckland & conquered the Waikato. Today I found the suburb over run by a red army of Tongan rugby fans.

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1/10 I've been arguing on twitter for the lavish public funding of art, & yesterday I was reminded of a superb subgenre of public art. I wish that I hadn't gotten the reminder, though. It came after my father was admitted to Middlemore hospital's intensive care unit.

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In the mid-1860s, NZ newspapers had 2 great hate figures: Maori King Tawhiao & US president Lincoln. Almost all papers supported the Confederates. Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation dismayed them. The Wellington Independent warned of a 'massacre' of whites by newly freed blacks.

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1/8 In NZ Maori vaccination rates are notoriously low. By contrast the Cooks has the world's highest vaccination rate, with 96% of its population double dosed. The Cooks have succeeded where NZ has failed because the country embraces rather than rejects indigenous governance.

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3/6 Nelson Mandela talked of the profound effect of the Rugby Park protest on the anti-apartheid movement in general. 'We felt like the sun had come out' he said, remembering when he got news of the cancellation of the game at Rugby Park.

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2/2 A friend monitoring the William Burr controversy - I won't name him in case he gets suspended by twitter - has found that many pro-Barr accounts have been set up very recently. Someone appears to be trying to manipulate twitter to prevent info about Burr's racism emerging.

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1/2 The increasingly hysterical Free Speech Union has announced that free speech is under greater threat in NZ that at any time since WW2. WW2 ended in 1945, but 6 years later Sid Holland's National govt suspended democracy in NZ, banning all dissent by trade unionists.

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6 years

In the Herald this morning Mike Hosking asks what NZ has ever gotten from its PI neighbours. Here's a shot of Nauru, one of several islands that were mined into moonscapes to provide phosphate fertiliser for NZ farms

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Scott Hamilton RTM

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1 year

18/18 The tributes to Maori scientific knowledge by great NZ scientists of the 20th C make a mockery of Dawkins' claims that recognition of Polynesian science is a 21st C phenomenon. It is a pity that Dawkins lacks the humility & curiosity of scientists like Sir Ernest Marsden.

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Scott Hamilton RTM

@SikotiHamiltonR

2 months

1/3 Last night at a kava circle I talked to a young man who'd finished a stint picking fruit in Opotiki. I asked him if he'd rather live in NZ or Tonga. 'In NZ time is money' he said. 'You have to work just to stay in your house. You wake up in the morning & have no choice...

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Scott Hamilton RTM

@SikotiHamiltonR

6 months

I've had some abusive messages since I published this piece in Spinoff about the war crimes of Anzacs in WW1 Palestine. One chap threatened to e mail my employer about the article. He didn't realise he was already e mailing my employer.

New Zealand’s shameful role in the 1917 destruction of Gaza

Anzac troops helped set in motion the cycle of violence that continues today in Palestine and Israel.

thespinoff.co.nz

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Scott Hamilton RTM

@SikotiHamiltonR

6 months

If you heard Winston Peters' interview today & are terrified that te reo Maori signs & a bribed media are going to destroy NZ, be grateful that we haven't yet been invaded by an army of Cuban-trained Maori guerrillas. That was the future Peters predicted in this 1985 speech.

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Scott Hamilton RTM

@SikotiHamiltonR

2 years

Maui's Boulder hints at the devastation tsunamis can bring to the flat motu of Tongatapu. The boulder was ripped from a reef & thrown inland 10 thousand years ago, by a wave that inundated the entire island. The boulder was used as a lookout during Tongatapu's civil wars.

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Scott Hamilton RTM

@SikotiHamiltonR

3 years

1/10 First there was Jordan Williams, who wanted to take arts grants from Eleanor Catton after she criticised John Key. Then there Elliot Ikilei, who campaigned against drag queens reading in libraries. Now the Free Speech Union has found another representative opposed to freedom

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Scott Hamilton RTM

@SikotiHamiltonR

5 months

1/10 As Tom notes, Chris Trotter's long-running mental collapse is now complete. Trotter wants PM Luxon to call an emergency meeting & start planning for a race war with the Kingitanga, whom he likens to the Nazi army in 1938. What on earth has brought Trotter to such mad ideas?

Tom Semmens

@Sanctuarynz

5 months

@SikotiHamiltonR @emergentkiwi There is probably a need to start thinking about what a democratic AoNZ might look like in the future. But demanding the PM call an emergency meeting of the state security apparatus to begin planning for a new war? WTF?

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Scott Hamilton RTM

@SikotiHamiltonR

6 months

1/17 Brian Tamaki has led haka in support of Israel. 6 of the 14 nations that backed Israel in a UN vote were in the Pacific Islands. What is the reason for the significant, tho not overwhelming, support for Israel from indigenous Pacific peoples? The answer lies in the 19th C.

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Scott Hamilton RTM

@SikotiHamiltonR

1 year

2/6 Groups like the Free Speech Union & Act are attempting to redefine any disruptive protest as an attack on free speech. What's missing from their calculus is any sense of the relative importance of rights.

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Scott Hamilton RTM

@SikotiHamiltonR

2 years

1/10 Every Anzac Day Hamiltonians gather at the city's Memorial Park. But their gathering is an exercise in forgetfulness, as much as remembrance. Because the now-embarrassing early history of the Anzacs has been repressed, Memorial Park's intended function & meaning are lost.

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Scott Hamilton RTM

@SikotiHamiltonR

8 months

1/4 Paranoiacs can't cooperate, which is why there are 10 'freedom' parties standing on the same conspiracy theory-based programme at this year's election. Yesterday Alan Simmons, husband of Freedoms NZ co-leader Sue Grey, accused Liz Gunn of sinister links to Freemasonry.

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Scott Hamilton RTM

@SikotiHamiltonR

1 year

1/3 Some historically innocent right-wingers are on twitter branding Ardern as the worst PM in NZ history. For the record, here is our worst PM (tho in his day they were called Premiers not PMs). His name was Alfred Domett.

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Scott Hamilton RTM

@SikotiHamiltonR

10 months

I'm watching The Day After Tomorrow with the kids. As I explain that scenes showing North American cities being evacuated are unrealistic, my wife nudges me with her cellphone, which shows the city of Yellowknife's inhabitants fleeing en masse from climate change-induced fires.

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Scott Hamilton RTM

@SikotiHamiltonR

1 year

1/7 In his recent anti-Maori polemic Richard Dawkins managed to mention the extinction of the moa. For him, the disappearance of the bird seems to symbolise Maori barbarism. But did Maori think of the fate of the moa with pride or regret? A story from Rodney gives us a clue.

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Scott Hamilton RTM

@SikotiHamiltonR

9 months

1/9 'Don't listen to Julian Batchelor, he's not an expert. Don't listen to me, I'm not an expert. Go to the experts.' These rare & precious words were spoken by Pere Huriwai-Seger, at the last meeting of the Kaipara District Council. The meeting was a shambles.

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Scott Hamilton RTM

@SikotiHamiltonR

2 years

1/10 I'm concerned that a new epidemic is stalking NZ. Unlike covid, this disease attacks only a select group of the population - ageing men with reputations as left-wing politicos. & it affects the brain, not the respiratory system. Matt McCarten seems to be the latest victim.

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Scott Hamilton RTM

@SikotiHamiltonR

4 months

12/12 Act makes the absurd claim that the Treaty was between Maori & all the migrants who'd eventually live here. The liberal myth of the Treaty effectively says the same thing, even if it interprets the Treaty differently. Both are radically ahistorical.

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Scott Hamilton RTM

@SikotiHamiltonR

4 years

I commented earlier on Rutger Bregman's article about castaways on the Tongan island of 'Ata. I accused Bregman of not mentioning the slave raid on the island & some other details, but I'd only read the short version of his piece; he deals with these in his long read. Apologies!

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Scott Hamilton RTM

@SikotiHamiltonR

8 months

1/2 Mike Harnett is Act's candidate for Palmerston North. He used to run the Rehab Physio Centre in the city. Harnett seems to have had a habit of calculating the genetic heritage of his colleagues at the centre. In 2013 he posted to facebook about one of them.

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