pn725. NZ and Pacific Islands snippets

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PĀKEHĀ  TOOK NZ BY FORCE, NOT BY TREATY. Chris Trotter on He Puapua but this extract tells all:

When Britain’s soldiers, having executed the “revolutionary seizure of power” demanded of them by the settler government, departed, did they leave behind them a more just, more honourable and more inclusive New Zealand? Or, did they bid farewell to a state which, having secured these islands by force of arms, would surrender them to nothing else?

See also today's list of He Puapua and race issues noted in NZ Politics Daily at the end of this posting. The prolific mentions will not go away.

SAMOA UNGOVERNED

The chief justice in Samoa has rejected an attempt to delay a challenge to the legality of a second election.

The Head of State last week called for a second election as a way to break a month-long deadlock between the caretaker Human Rights Protection Party government and the newcomer FAST party, that has prevented a new government being formed.

See also. "appointed by God."

WASTED SCHOOL LUNCHES. Amid calls for auditing government wage subidies, there's calls to also audit the free school lunches.  Click also.

GREEN RECOVERY PLAN UNHEEDED. https://www.newsroom.co.nz/climate-emergency/internal-plea-for-green-recovery-went-unheeded

TONGA. King questions parliament’s honesty and abilities, in frank speech from throne.

HM King Tupou VI chastised and challenged Parliament, directly questioning members’ honesty, mission and abilities to run the government, in a remarkably frank and hard-hitting speech from the throne, to open the Legislature's 2021-22 session this morning. 

FIJI. 

24-hour curfew in Suva and Nausori from 11pm Friday to 4am Tuesday

From Saturday 15th May, the curfew hours for the rest of Viti Levu will expand from 6pm until 4am every day

Update from Fiji. More cases.

SOLOMON ISLANDS still Covid free

COOK ISLANDS covid free but rise in dengue cases

ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK predicts modest growth  in Pacific economies

Race issues will not go away. The list from today's NZ Politics Daily.

Parliamentary debates on race
Jane Patterson (RNZ): Policies can be called racist but not MPs, Speaker rules
Tess McClure (The Guardian): Māori party co-leader ejected from parliament after performing haka in racism row
Richard Harman: Behind Parliament’s “racist” row (paywalled)
Meriana Johnsen (RNZ): Māori Party co-leader Rawiri Waititi ejected from Parliament
Anna Whyte (1News): Māori Party co-leader Rawiri Waititi performs haka in Parliament, ordered to leave
Zane Small (Newshub): Māori Party co-leader Rawiri Waititi booted from Parliament after protesting against 'racist’ views
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Parliament's day of protests: From moving hikoi calling for life-saving drugs to Māori Party decrying racism

He Puapua document and Māori self-determination
Audrey Young (Herald): Kelvin Davis gives the speech that Jacinda Ardern should have given (paywalled)
Audrey Young (Herald): Why the latest foreshore and seabed decision is important (paywalled)
Zane Small (Newshub): National leader Judith Collins not backing down from co-governance debate in face of Māori Party protests
Jane Kelsy (Herald): Cynics clutching at straw men over indigenous rights report (paywalled)
Meriana Johnsen (RNZ): Iwi to be consulted on proposed Department of Conservation policy changes
Terry Dunleavy (BFD): He Pua Pua? Or Should That Be “Hey! Poor Poor”?
Rodney Hide: Reserve Bank Theocracy