20 Years On, the Don Brash Orewa Speech Is Still a Masterpiece

20 years on, the Don Brash Orewa speech is still a masterpiece.
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[@lydiascl]

20 years later we're still stuck in the same issues.. 🤔

[@ShirleyZhang-bt4dj]

Nothing has changed.In 100 years we will still be arguing.

[@Anonymous-c4p]

@@ShirleyZhang-bt4dj "I AM...changing" 💛

[@Keepitsimple183]

More like 200yrs later NZ has just become stale white is right BS

[@jamesbroughton7635]

Not from where I'm standing Champ 😂😂😂😂😂👍🏿👍🏿😊

[@brushandshovel6512]

Don Brash deserved so much more respect than he got. As an adult now i completely agree with what he is saying. He understood what many nzers didnt or couldn't articulate.

[@Matika_awatea]

You think so ?

[@jamesbroughton7635]

Yet he was booted as National and ACT leader 😂😂😂😂

[@realistically-r7g]

I wish they would sack the entire TVNZ Board .

[@roslynhita6149]

here here

[@bigthinker281]

There's no reason why the full speech can't be available on here since it can't be found anywhere else online...

[@user-rf9ws7hp3e]

Wow ! Nothing has changed . One thing that can be said of labour, they are consistent.

[@realistically-r7g]

Twenty years later it’s worse .😢

[@jamesbroughton7635]

2 terms of National since 2005 and it's worse? 😂😂😂😂😂

[@firequeen7872]

Please post the whole speech in it’s entirety. Thank you 🙏

[@ianfisher6561]

What a shame that this man didn't get to become the Prime Minister.

[@robertwilliams9694]

What happened to rest of Dr Brash’s speech???

[@russellhope1866]

The man was a genius and a visionary, pity Luxon has a sack but no balls in it. As I’ve reiterated in other comments the ToW is outdated but should used as a document to help forge a new New Zealand constitution encompassing ALL New Zealanders with unity, freedom and equality.

[@aaronlikescoffee]

I remember being 13 during the 05 election and being told how evil this guy was. Was the first time in my life I watched election coverage. I remember when they thought a plane had been hijacked or something like that on the night as well. I was so glad he lost. Little did I know that as an adult, I'd look back at the 05 election as that crossroads in our nation's history where if we had taken the other road, we might have had a better future. New Zealanders living in an alternate universe where Brash won are surely having a better time of things than we are. Ahhh, retrospect...

[@morgan_kemp]

That's the problem with just listening to others warped opinions on the speech without listening to it yourself. I too, like you, was told this speech was racist. It's anything but. Pity Don never got to be PM and stop this madness

[@bigthinker281]

This is a really important speech for Nzers to hear... It can't be found anywhere else online... It would be great if the full speech was posted online rather than just 15 minutes of it...

[@honahwikeepa2115]

"The Treaty of Waitangi was forged in a time when categories mattered, we don't live in that world anymore." David Lange 1980. Catch up koro media. Modernity died last century in 1973 when the UK told us that we were on our own now.

[@CoolCoyote]

'choice' indeed. thomas Sowell agrees with it and the 'welfare state' does nothing for anyone really. maori grievance industry so true, sad its got way worse now. maoris are the horrible separatists

[@ianandrews6890]

"Owera" is misspelt at 1:57

[@christopherclayton8577]

In 2002, Bill English delivered a lecture at the NZ Centre for Public Law. The title of the lecture was "The Treaty of Waitangi and New Zealand Citizenship" It places the Treaty in its 1840 context of international law. Hobson and the British faced a basic choice - to mimic treaties signed elsewhere in the world, or to adopt a different model. The overseas treaties (in North America for example) provide for indigenous tribes to be protected peoples. This is why Canadian tribes are these days represented as being "first nations". Plains Indians did not obtain a right to a passport until the 1920s (from memory). The ToW on the other hand specified that there was to be one status for all citizens of a new sovereign entity in the land. That is, Maori would have the same rights and responsibilities as other subjects of Britain - the lesser status of a protected people. Article One, therefore, enabled Article Three. And Article Two was meant to end the conquest of the rohe of smaller iwi by larger iwi with guns, There had to be some awareness at the time that it would take time to reach the final destination. Yet the the final destination (very imprecisely) charted.

[@spiritedcrone]

I thought it was great at the time - it remains so. And a tragedy that Don Brash has been treated so badly because he had the courage and intellect to speak in this way.

[@huatahisnowden7271]

The minority is the majority

[@kiakaha6854]

so over the treaty bullshit, alot of other maori couldnt care less too, the fact that majority of maori live in australia clearly shows this - they are there for standard of living, which is what is really important

[@delinquentinparadise]

It was TVNZ that made a fool of Mr Brash by filming his awkwardness in getting into and out of a small racing machine. And I’m sure that had Mr Brash known how foolishly ungainly he would look getting into and out of that vehicle he would never agreed to be filmed doing so. It’s more than time that the Public had a say in both TVNZ’s content and lack of neutrality via a Board of Outside Directors, ( With Teeth, and made up of non media people ) to ensure both neutrality in political matters and quality of content.

[@mellow5606]

The Hollow Men documentary and book painted an interesting look at these times. Nothing has changed except information available to everyone to decide what they want to believe. The embers are growing on both sides.

[@granthardy5844]

❤

[@jeffmcintyre2091]

Didnt you say you were going to play the whole speech sean

[@JohanThiart]

He did. We cheapskates get what we “pay” for.

[@Anonymous-c4p]

@@JohanThiart nothing 😁

[@Anonymous-c4p]

20yrs and what's changed? 🤷‍♂️

[@ShirleyZhang-bt4dj]

Nothing

[@arohanui922]

Some Maori are very wealthy now

[@johnburnett3942]

Great speech, hope luxson was listening. I'm sure that the two duputy priminsters were.

[@StGammon77]

The Pakeha Party is rising, we built infrastructure quickly and we will preserve OUR CULTURE by rejecting Maori racism, Maori theft and Maori sovereignty!!

[@lander783]

This isnt maori vs pakeha its maori vs the Gov your another one that thinks its white vs black give it up already 🤦🤦

[@Matika_awatea]

Ofcourse this is at orewa rotary club 😂

[@andrewc3362]

OREWA - fix the spelling mistake please

[@danielboon1028]

20yrs later an still nothing

[@kathylittle8]

spelt Orewa wrong

[@realistically-r7g]

Thanks to labour greens,😢

[@toddnile]

Spelling????

[@user-uq1rl6zs2b]

Trump

[@217bells]

Make New Zealand great again.

[@user-uq1rl6zs2b]

@@217bells 👍🙂

[@ShirleyZhang-bt4dj]

Go Trump

[@user-uq1rl6zs2b]

@@ShirleyZhang-bt4dj my friend

[@tommcg7564]

It’s old because he was wrong

[@huatahisnowden7271]

Another David Seymour. You tell me does Maori settlors have tangata tiriti in Britain because pakeha seem to think they have tangata tiriti rights here in Maoris country

[@StGammon77]

You didn't know what the wheel was lol

[@huatahisnowden7271]

Ooh yes i did more racism from that don brash speaks of david is his fan club and didnt know Maori want settlor rights in Britain like how the crown got pakeha here in Maoris country now how is that fair

[@Matika_awatea]

Birth right and upper hand haha please 😂 what about the 140 years odd of pushing Māori to be second class citizens bullshit

[@StGammon77]

You are

[@Matika_awatea]

@@StGammon77 you are

[@adamcaccioppoli3878]

Sean - 3 points - 1- stop virtue signalling this simplistic one rule for everyone and equality that has never existed in NZ. NZ is currently ruled by an elite 20% who have the most wealth. If they get sick - they pay money and go to a private hospital. If they want smaller class sizes they pay money to send their kids to a private school. Meanwhile a 5 year old living on the other side of town gets sick and has to wait on the public wait list - some wait too long and die because they don’t have enough money for the private hospital which has pretty much no wait lists. Another 5 year old wants to go to the same school as his friend on his rugby team but can’t because his family doesn’t have enough money. 2 - stop trying to make Maori assimilate to live like pakeha. That is what one rule for all means - basically one size (the pakeha way) fits all. The last 100 years pretty clearly shows the system does not fit with Maori and Maori culture. 3 - I think 80% of kiwis would agree the treaty’s meaning is ambiguous which leaves 3 options - 1 - do what the crown wants (hasn’t worked), 2 - do it the Maori way(never been tried) or 3 - work together in partnership. It’s funny but what do we always tell our children in this situation- “work it out together and compromise so everyone is included”. Why can’t we as a country do what we teach our tamariki/children? Thanks

[@StGammon77]

It's too fkn late to work with Maori. Look at them what a farcical racist crooked lot they are now the Chiefs would be livid!