A PAULING

Thinly veiled race lunacy lurks under the veneer of civility

Craig Pauling is the chair of the Canterbury Regional Council (“CRC”). I don’t find Pauling particularly appalling. Craig’s publicly civil - a civility born of his absolute belief in deep-seated dogmas. But Craig is also a lead actor in an appalling tragic farce…the racial renting asunder of the once proud, plucky, pretty unified nation of New Zealand.

Under Craig’s stewardship, the Canterbury Regional Council does not go by that name - being its only official (real) name. CRC calls itself Environment Canterbury, or ECan, or the Māori word “Waitaha”. (Reminder: it’s a deliberate, discombobulating device of Post-modernists that official names don’t matter and words don’t carry their ordinary meanings. You won’t find “New Zealand” on CRC’s website; it’s all either Aotearoa or Aotearoa New Zealand.)

The “Waitaha” CRC appellation is especially ridiculous and ironic because:

• Waitaha is the name of the original moa-hunting Māori population of the South Island, a population conquered or otherwise subdued by Ngāi Tahu when Ngāi Tahu arrived in the South Island from around Gisborne, about 300 years ago

• CRC (“Waitaha”) considers itself to be in a “partnership” with Ngāi Tahu – the very tribe that colonised and subjugated the Waitaha people.

Craig Pauling identifies not only as Ngāi Tahu but also as Ngāti Mutunga.

The Ngāti Mutunga tribe was driven from North Taranaki in the Māori inter-tribal Musket Wars. Gathering themselves in the Wellington region, Ngāti Mutunga teamed up with another tribe, Ngāti Tama, commandeered the ship Lord Rodney, and got themselves to the Chatham Islands in 1835. There they repaid the warm welcome given to them by the pacifist Moriori people by slaughtering most Moriori and enslaving the survivors. Many Moriori were masticated.

In the words of chief Te Rakatau Katihe, "We took possession ... in accordance with our custom, and we caught all the people. Not one escaped. Some ran away from us, these we killed; and others also we killed – but what of that? It was in accordance with our custom”.

Even though Moriori did not sign the Treaty of Waitangi, they rightly received a Treaty settlement from the New Zealand Government in 2020. The settlement included a Crown apology for not protecting Moriori from the Nasty Ngātis Mutunga and Tama, bolshie tribes that have adamantly refused to apologise to the remnant Moriori.

Ngāti Mutunga got a Taranaki Treaty settlement in 2005. But, not content with that, Ngāti Mutunga is now gunning for an additional Treaty settlement - a settlement for the Chatham Islands. Ngāti Mutunga is alleging that the Crown is not respecting Ngāti Mutunga’s “tino rangatiratanga” (chiefly dominion) over the Chathams. The only hold-up in Ngāti Mutunga’s attempted double dipping Chathams Treaty settlement are Moriori - entirely understandably - objecting to the Crown apologizing to Chathams Ngāti Mutunga and granting Ngāti Mutunga some dominion over the Chatham Islands. Any such apology and grant would of course richly reward Ngāti Mutunga for their slaughter and enslavement of Moriori.

On 5 June 2025, Moriori applied to the Court to stop the Crown acknowledging any Ngāti Mutunga dominion over the Chatham Islands. The Court’s decision is pending. Fingers crossed for the Moriori!

The Left’s wilful blindness to the internecine-Māori Musket Wars and the Chathams tribal genocide is all part of the Left’s orchestrated Aotearoa Amnesia.

Should we hold Craig Pauling responsible for Ngāti Mutunga’s past genocidal brutality, or that tribe’s preposterous audacity in trying to get the New Zealand Government to reward its dreadful misdeeds? Of course not. (Only white skinned people inherit the sins of the fathers.)

But can we justifiably hold Craig to account for his current Ngāi Tahu race hustling? Sure we can.

Craig took the CRC chair in 2024, but not by conquest. Craig was elected unopposed by his fellow CRC Councilors, after being nominated by fellow Councillors, Tutehounuku ‘Nuk’ Korako and Iaean Cranwell.

Neither Nuk nor Iaean was elected by Cantabrians to CRC. They race grifted their way onto the CRC, as unelected appointees of the Ngāi Tahu tribe. Nuk and Iaean enjoy the same ratepayer-funded pay as elected Councillors. They arrived at CRC under legislation passed by the ousted Labour Government - the Canterbury Regional Council (Ngāi Tahu Representation) Act 2022.

The antidemocratic CRC has dodged a general requirement applying to almost all other local government Councils. It’s a legislated requirement that, if a Council is to have unelected Māori Councillors in future, such unaccountable race-based Councillors must be approved by public referendum i.e. by a majority of voters in the upcoming local body elections.

The National Party/Act Coalition Agreement expressly commits the current Government to repealing the CRC Ngāi Tahu representation legislation. Local Government Minister Simeon Brown accordingly asked CRC to instigate a local bill to repeal that racist legislation, something that CRC has steadfastly refused to do.

Otago University law professor and self-proclaimed constitutional “expert” Professor Andrew Geddis has claimed that, under Parliament’s Rules, only CRC can repeal the CRC Ngāi Tahu Grift Act – a claim which is of course antidemocratic claptrap and just another Leftie attack on Parliamentary Sovereignty. (Andrew, you’ve conveniently ignored the words “A Government bill dealing with a matter of State policy can amend or repeal a local Act”, in Parliamentary Rule 34.6.4). The nonsensical notion that local government doesn’t have to bow to Parliament is a central pillar of AoteaWoketards’ concerted attack on New Zealand democracy.

Under Craig’s CRC chairmanship, CRC predictably submitted against David Seymour’s Treaty Principles Bill. And of course Craig supports Ngāi Tahu’s current claim to all South Island fresh water.

Craig co-authored a 2013 policy brief to Landcare Research titled "Using Mātauranga Māori to Inform Freshwater Management". That brief advocates for integrating Māori values and knowledge into freshwater policy and planning, Treaty-based fresh water frameworks, recognition of tāngata whenua values, shared decision-making and “partnership” and Maori Kaitiakitanga (guardianship) of water.

So Craig is exactly what – for all intents and purposes – he appears to be…a Māori activist and separatist and shill for Ngāi Tahu – the “tribe” that he was an employee of for six years. As CRC Chair, Craig Pauling is not just in the pocket of Ngāi Tahu, he IS Ngāi Tahu. (Craig claims to be a member of the Green Party, but that’s probably just to put us off the scent. He’s perfectly aligned with the Māori Party.)

CRC lubricants can be useful but can also corrode adhesive bonds. It’s the same with Canterbury’s CRC, whose divisive race-based zealotry will – if spraying around much more – further corrode the ties that bind New Zealanders together.