Ian The Curious
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Ian The Curious
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Explorer on life’s highway, rural, maker, builder, gardener, architect. 🇳🇿

The India-NZ Free Trade Agreement "Onion" thought experiment Kiwi onion farmers produce 0.2% of total global production. Indian onion farmers produce 25%. How can Kiwi onion farmers compete, when free trade allows Indian farmers into NZ without tarrifs? Now apply that same logic to meat, fish, fruit, etc. What do you think might happen to NZ farmers?



Whether or not Europe stands with us, whether or not your journalists do their jobs, whether or not your politicians demonstrate the courage to act, I will fight for my people and my country.


Look at these fat, waddling pigs. Just look at them.

𝟏𝐬𝐭 𝐋𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭 % 𝐈𝐧𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐁𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭 𝐒𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐲 Ministry for Culture and Heritage. +31.64% Average. Sounds like a culture of high pay from your taxes!





Nah, I t’s a war dance from the Stone Age

Let’s be clear — the haka is not some political prop to be dismissed or targeted for cheap points. For generations, kapa haka has been a powerful expression of whakaaro, identity, and resistance. It speaks to kaupapa that impact Māori — our iwi, hapū and whānau. It existed long before today’s political narratives, and it will exist long after them too. So when ACT MP Parmjeet Parmar takes aim at haka and kaupapa Māori, it doesn’t come across as insight — it comes across as tone-deaf and dismissive of something deeply rooted in this country. At a time when te reo Māori initiatives are being questioned and Māori voices are increasingly challenged, this kind of rhetoric only fuels division. And let’s be honest about that — Māori didn’t create this divide. Māori didn’t open the door to attacking our culture, language, and identity. But we are expected to sit quietly while it happens. Calling out haka as “virtue signalling” completely misses the point. It’s not performance for approval — it’s expression, it’s history, it’s mana. If there’s frustration out there, it’s not coming from nowhere. It’s coming from seeing kaupapa Māori constantly undermined by those in positions of power. That’s not leadership. That’s disconnection. #KaupapaMāori #Haka #TeReoMāori #Aotearoa #NZPolitics #MāoriVoices #ManaMotuhake






