6 weeks after New Zealanders voted to oust the remnants of the Ardern regime, National Party Leader and New Prime minister Christopher Luxon announced to the NZ public the results of the coalition agreement between the three parties (National, Act, NZ First) whom have formed a majority government. While most of New Zealand has been…
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There is now a new Government in New Zealand, and it looks set to reverse all the stuff I’ve been protesting about through the covid years . Below is an update from the VFF (Voices for Freedom) who stood up against the lockdowns, mandates, and all that other crazy stuff.
Our community has fought hard for our rights these past three years, and that unrelenting effort and carefully planned strategy was finally reflected in the detail of the coalition documents between National and New Zealand First and National and ACT. You can read both of the agreements here as well as the full list of cabinet positions.
VFF is making a huge difference and we couldn’t do it without your support!
Below is a list of our highlights worthy of giving yourself permission to celebrate – we sure are!
From the NZ First / National Coalition Agreement:
- Ensure a ‘National Interest Test’ is undertaken before New Zealand accepts any agreements from the UN and its agencies that limit national decision-making and reconfirm that New Zealand’s domestic law holds primacy over any international agreements.
- As part of the above, by December 1 2023, reserve against proposed amendments to WHO health regulations to allow the incoming Government to consider these against a “National Interest Test.”
- Refocus the curriculum on academic achievement and not ideology, including removing and replacing the gender, sexuality, and relationship-based education guidelines.
- End all Covid-19 vaccine mandates still in operation.
- Ensure, as a matter of urgency in establishment and completion, a full-scale, wide-ranging, independent inquiry conducted publicly with local and international experts into how the Covid pandemic was handled in New Zealand.
- Protect freedom of speech by ruling out the introduction of hate speech legislation and stopping the Law Commission’s work on hate speech legislation.
- Ensure all public service departments have their primary names in English, except those specifically related to Māori.
- Legislate to make English an official language of New Zealand.
- Ensure publicly funded sporting bodies support fair competition that is not compromised by rules relating to gender.
- Abolish the Māori Health Authority.
- Repeal the Therapeutic Products Act 2023.
- Commit that in the absence of a referendum, our Government will not change the official name of New Zealand.
- Cancel Auckland Light Rail and Let’s Get Wellington Moving and reduce cycleway expenditure.
- Investigate the strategic opportunities in New Zealand’s mineral resources.
- Ensure that climate change policies are aligned and do not undermine national energy security.
- The Coalition Government will work to improve outcomes for all New Zealanders, and will not advance policies that seek to ascribe different rights and responsibilities to New Zealanders on the basis of their race or ancestry.
- Stop all work on He Puapua.
- Confirm that the Coalition Government does not recognise the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) as having any binding legal effect on New Zealand.
Now, that is quite the lolly-shop list!
What’s Next for VFF in the political space?
Some might say that’s it; job done, put your feet up and relax…
But we know that is not the case.
Now that we have representatives in government who are clearly prepared to listen to our concerns, we need to do three things as a community:
We must continue supporting these representatives with quality information, research, and briefing documents.
We must continue showing up in numbers to pressure the coalition to ensure these promises reach fruition.
We must hold their feet to the fire.
The VFF and RCR team will continue to advocate on your behalf and provide public education on the issues you care about. Whether it be Covid-related topics, UN and other globalist organisations’ agendas, digital wallets and currencies, climate madness, the education curriculum, the creep of insidious gender ideology, local government matters, co-governance and more, we’ve got you covered!
Standing up for our freedoms is a team effort
Our endeavours will fall flat without your help.
We promise to keep on keeping on, but we need you to swing in behind us with your support.
It will help us immensely if you help us to help everyone when we put out a call to sign letters or petitions, use the templates provided to make easy submissions, share interviews, infographics, or memes, and attend critical hearings or meetings where possible.
We will continue to achieve great things when we work together in an organised fashion.
We look forward to bringing you more regular updates on relevant news and developments in NZ and abroad now that we have the election behind us.
For now, give a high-five to those who’ve been in the trenches with you these last few years and enjoy the rest of your weekend!
It finally feels like we are winning after all this time!
A post thats really only for political tragics, but interestingly Canada and Australia have the same problem.
TIME TO ADDRESS NZ’S SECRET, the 1986 COUP D’ETAT
By Ian Wishart
Former High Court judge Robert Fisher, now a KC (Kings Counsel), argues in the NZ Herald that New Zealand is already a republic in all but name, and that Parliament could lock it in with a couple of legislative tweaks.
However, despite making a prima facie good case for his argument, there’s a massive elephant in the room that Fisher doesn’t address – and possibly doesn’t even know about: the secret NZ constitutional coup of 1986.
It has given us an arguably illegal parliament for 36 years.
Let me explain:
Fisher KC makes the point:
“A republic has been defined as ‘a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch’. In New Zealand supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives.”The last sentence in Fisher’s argument is commonly accepted in the legal fraternity and judiciary, but few have actually ever tried to join the dots to see if it’s true.
I have, and it isn’t.Aotearoa New Zealand began its constitutional journey in the 1800s as a colony of Great Britain. The colonial parliament in Wellington was the branch of a constitutional oak tree with its trunk and roots in London.
Other branches off that same tree trunk were the colonial parliaments of Australia, Canada and various smaller territories around the world.
All of them, without exception, drew their authority to govern locally in Wellington, Canberra or Ottawa from laws drafted and enacted by the UK Parliament at Westminster, delegating local governance to the colonial parliaments.
Over the past 180 years, New Zealand’s parliament (and Australia’s and Canada’s) have been granted increasingly wider powers by London.
By the time the League of Nations was formed after WW1, NZ was acting as a sovereign state in its own right, but the trunk was still attached to the London tree: our parliament was still drawing its constitutional authority to govern NZ from the English crown and UK Acts of Parliament. By law, New Zealanders were “subjects”, not “citizens”.
The politicians in Wellington may have been “elected” by the NZ people, but they were elected only as “representatives” to a system set up by London and accountable directly to the Crown, not the people. Voters could change the faces, but they couldn’t change the system itself.
Fast-forward to one night in 1986.
The radically reformative Labour Government of Lange, Palmer, Moore and Douglas (I was Mike Moore’s press secretary at the time) hatched a plan so cunning you could, in the words of Edmund Blackadder, stick a tail on it and call it a weasel.The plan was simple: declare legal independence from Great Britain, and turn the New Zealand parliament into the Crown itself by seizing all the power and authority from Westminster and enthroning a “Queen of New Zealand”.
They did this through the Constitution Act of 1986 and the Imperial Laws Application Act of 1988.
(Edit: actually probably the English Laws Act 1858 , not the Imperial Laws Application Act 1988)
There was only one problem with this cunning plan: it was, and remains to this day, technically illegal and unconstitutional.
Here’s why:
When countries declare independence, there must be an absolute break in the consitutional authority. New Zealand MPs on the day before the Constitution Act was passed were still a branch of the London tree.Yet the day after they declared independence and cut their branch loose from the UK trunk, the New Zealand Parliament branch was miraculously still suspended in mid-air – but on whose authority did those MPs now govern?
In Ireland in the 1930s, the Dail (parliament) declared independence from England, but it had to be ratified by a public vote. In this manner, the Irish parliament swiftly found fresh constitutional authority for its existence and powers – from the Irish people.It’s a legal process known as ‘autocthony’, which loosely translates to finding a new constitutional source of power once you unplug yourself from the original power source.
This never happened in New Zealand in 1986.The local NZ media did not understand the implications of the Constitution Act, and the Lange government never told them.
The public awoke the morning after, not realising New Zealand’s parliament had just seized absolute power and enthroned itself as “the Crown”. It never went to a public vote.
It was the ultimate smoky backroom deal, a quiet revolution. A very kiwi coup.
And ever since 1986, ruling politicians have done whatever they liked.Remember what Robert Fisher KC said? “In New Zealand supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives.”
No, supreme power is not held by the New Zealand people. We are still “subjects” – now of a parliamentary monarchy in Wellington rather than Charles III in London. That individual only remains the nominated face of the kingdom in Wellington at their invitation.
Had Fisher KC been talking of Ireland he would have been correct – sovereignty was accepted by the Irish people in a vote in 1937 and power then delegated to the Irish Dail.
But again, that never happened in NZ.
Our parliament has governed as supreme sovereign itself for 36 years and never sought ratification for that coup from the people.
Whatever path New Zealand chooses, whether a continuation of constitutional monarchy or republic, we have to legally clean up the aftermath of the 1986 Coup d’Etat.
The UK Government had no authority to actually transfer the Crown to the NZ Parliament, because at the midnight moment of passing the Crown to Wellington its power to do so (an act of colonialism) ceased to exist like Cinderella’s coach.Likewise, Lange (then Prime minister) and Palmer had no legal ability to accept the Crown in 1986 – they had to get ratification from the people first.
They never did so. Australia and Canada are in the same boat.
It’s time to face the elephant in the room, and merely changing a few words in legislation won’t cut it. We are not a republic in all but name, as Fisher asserts.Instead our plight is arguably more serious: we are an illegal, unconstitutional monarchy where Parliament in Wellington took supreme power for itself in 1986, and that power has intoxicated politicians ever since.
Former Appeal Court President Sir Robin Cooke once famously opined that if Wellington ordered the deaths of all blue-eyed babies the courts would have to uphold it and the military enforce it. The Emperor has no clothes.
Mandates anyone? That last two paragraphs beautifully illustrate, how and why NZ did the strictest lockdowns in the world, and literally shut the country down for a disease that only affects people with one foot in the grave.
They even locked down the largest city (Auckland) for a single of Delta.
Meanwhile….
Thats a question I keep asking myself, now that the covid hysteria’s finally gone (along with the loony Government that enabled it).
It seems the general public now consider the unvaccinated to be ‘dead’ to them. (to be just ignored).
That isn’t a totally bad thing, because it means they effectively have given up and leave them alone.
Uncoffined 
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