The conservative coalition government of New Zealand came to office promising to wind back an enormous, government-run system of ‘Woke’ that had infested every aspect of society. From dangerous bilingual road signs to race-based water policy to a war on farm animals. The whole lot was put under review.
New Zealand First, a coalition partner, posted during their 2023 campaign: ‘Behind closed doors, a small unelected cabal of opinionated virtue signallers want to integrate gender content into the curriculum. They have no authority to be doing this. They never asked you. This election is about stopping them.’
These were not empty election promises.
Consider them ‘stopped’.
Leader of New Zealand First, Winston Peters, said on X this morning:
‘We are winning the war on Woke.
‘The Woke Relationship and Sexuality Guidelines have been removed from the school curriculum and have been replaced with a curriculum that actually educates, not indoctrinates.
‘There is more to come very soon on New Zealand winning the War on Woke. Watch this space.’
David Seymour of the ACT Party, who is the Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand, released the following statement on X:
No longer will history classes indoctrinate young people for political purposes.
Today the government unveiled a new curriculum that restores balance. It celebrates the positives in our history while inviting critical thinking. It teaches that we’re all descended from people who crossed oceans – whether in wakas, steamships, or Airbuses – to build a better life together at the bottom of the world.
The previous ‘Aotearoa Histories’ curriculum, introduced under Labour, drove a simplistic victims-and-villains narrative. Its so-called ‘big idea’ that ‘Māori history is the foundational and continuous history of Aotearoa New Zealand’ excluded most New Zealanders from the story.
The second ‘big idea’ that ‘Colonisation and settlement have been central to Aotearoa New Zealand’s histories for the past 200 years’ set New Zealand up as a nation of victims and villains. The third idea, that ‘The course of Aotearoa New Zealand’s histories has been shaped by the use of power’ only reinforced that idea.
I’m proud to say these dismal, divisive and overly political ‘big ideas’ are all gone.
The new history curriculum also teaches young Kiwis to look outward. Instead of gorging on a restricted diet of local history, students will now also learn about Ancient Egypt, Rome, Greece, through to the Victorian Age.
ACT has delivered a step away from politicised education, and a step toward a shared sense of citizenship based on common history, equal rights, and mutual respect.
A message of unrelenting unity and truth.
Theirs is a policy that gives children a wider, and more intellectually healthy vision of the human story instead of one confined to the Petri dish which festers racial hatred in young minds.
Naturally, because this new curriculum is good for society, the Left despise it.
They are claiming that de-Woking the education system amounts to white washing. In other words, if you attempt to remove the divisive lies and socialist propaganda which has corrupted the truth of history, you are accused of racism. Either that, or the so-called ‘educators’ start swearing and threatening people.
Their behaviour is reminiscent of Democrat America where their teachers demand tolerance and diversity, then dress up as a slain Charlie Kirk for the ridiculous No Kings protest.
There are toddler-level tantrums taking place as racist, sexist, and anti-reality ideology is purged from New Zealand.
It is an exorcism.
And all good horror fans know what happens just before the guy clutching the Holy Water succeeds.
New Zealand is healing, the next generation is being saved, but the screaming of half-wit academics and low-grade intellectuals will continue until the process is complete and they have to go back to teaching … truth.
Activism is easy. You can make up any ‘facts’ you want and teach it as Gospel. Reality is hard. It involves research, accuracy, and truth. You get participation awards for activism, and a cold hard F if you try to grift your way through history.
It is not clear when New Zealanders lost patience with identity politics, although it was probably somewhere around the time racist water policies were invented.
While the Woke have a meltdown and raise the sea-levels with their tears, Prime Minister Christoper Luxon has been in Korea attending APEC.
At the end of October, he promised New Zealanders that he would not introduce ‘a capital gains tax that whacks savers, investors, and businesses’ because it ‘puts a handbrake on our economic recovery’.
Finally, a leader who understands that taxing productivity kills productivity. Can someone forward the message to Jim Chalmers? He’s got the wrong end of the stick.
‘National will keep building new infrastructure, removing red tape, getting the books in order, and delivering new trade deals so our exporters can sell to the world. That’s how we grow the economy – so we can lift wages, create jobs, and help Kiwi families get ahead.’
And then there’s this:
‘From early next year, you’ll be able to build a 70m² granny flat without resource or building consent. And from now, you can build a shed, garage, or sleepout closer to your property boundary without consent. National is making it easier and cheaper to build.’
See? Good policy isn’t hard.
