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[Elliot Ikilei @ElliotIkilei]

NEW ZEALAND FIRST AND EDUCATION
ECE, schools, curriculum, free speech & professional regulation

Judy Gill

6 July 2026 🇳🇿 NEW ZEALAND

People will decide how to vote on many issues. This post focuses solely on education — the New Zealand First candidates who have publicly engaged on early childhood education, schools, curriculum, free speech, and professional regulation.

For those concerned about education and considering NZ First, these are the people most likely to carry those concerns into Parliament.

Links to interviews, speeches & articles in the first comment.

MICHAEL LAWS — WAITAKI CANDIDATE
CRITICAL THEORY IN TE WHĀRIKI & ECE

Michael Laws has raised concerns about critical theory in Te Whāriki. In his interview with Judy Gill and with Professor Alex Gunn, he addressed Waiheke Kindergarten, ECE, Te Whāriki, and ideological content in early childhood.

KNOWLEDGE-RICH CURRICULUM

He has interviewed Professor Elizabeth Rata on curriculum, teaching standards, and ideology — advancing the case for knowledge-rich education over ideology displacing subject knowledge.

PROFESSIONAL BODIES, REGISTRATION & FREE SPEECH

Laws has covered the Teaching Council, Medical Council and Nursing Council — teacher standards, accountability, registration, free speech, and ideological expectations on professionals.

ELLIOT IKILEI — TAKANINI CANDIDATE
REMOVAL OF COMPULSORY TE TIRITI REQUIREMENTS

Through Hobson’s Pledge, Elliot Ikilei campaigned against the former section 127(2)(e) Education and Training Act duty requiring school boards to “give effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi.” This explicit duty was removed in the 2025 Amendment Act. He later discussed the change in interview.

SUPPORT FOR DEFINITIONS OF WOMAN AND MAN BILL

Elliot Ikilei supports NZ First’s Legislation (Definitions of Woman and Man) Amendment Bill. This is directly relevant to relationships & sexuality education, single-sex facilities, school sport, safeguarding, and language used in schools.

CASEY COSTELLO — NZ FIRST MP & PORT WAIKATO CANDIDATE
SCHOOLS, RSE & PARENTAL AUTHORITY

Casey Costello has taken a strong public position on gender ideology in schools, relationships and sexuality education (RSE), and parental rights. In “Puberty Blockers Banned For Children” she argued classrooms should focus on learning, not ideological indoctrination, with parents having proper say.

CURRICULUM PRIORITIES

She has criticised priority funding for compulsory Māori language in schools while core educational outcomes remain poor.

WINSTON PETERS — NZ FIRST LEADER
EDUCATION, NOT INDOCTRINATION

Winston Peters has repeatedly criticised ideological influence in schools. In his September 2025 “One Clarion Call” speech:

“We need education in our schools not indoctrination.” (referring to RSE).

FREE SPEECH & EDUCATION

In “By Their Deeds You Will Know Them,” he linked declining free speech to ideological control, arguing schools and universities must be places of open debate, not silencing.

TOP-CLASS EDUCATION

In “An Election Like No Other,” he called for a top-class education system and challenging ideological control.

NZ First acted on parent concerns about RSE (“Education Not Indoctrination”) and passed the English Language Bill’s first reading in 2026, affirming English as an official language.

NB - article has been condensed to fit within text parameters

[Ricky-🤔🇳🇿 🇦🇺 🇷🇺🕊️🇺🇸 @Toothless71]

Thank you @winstonpeters & the team @nzfirst for giving a little light to hope in this country that our member's of government are finally listening to us the public.

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@StopForumSpam @TheZeitgeistNZ Hipkins could silence all the mean bullies calling him retarded.

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@gaye_ess @jumbypassmore Digging his toes in and doubling down Kier Stalin style.
High Treason.

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@symes_lorraine Definitely, headed for Keir Stalin worse.
But Key was bad, he got a lot of false accolades for his economic recovery.
Basically ran an immigration ponzi scheme to prop up the economy while cutting all investment infrastructure.
Left his patsy English in charge to take the fall.

[Kiwi summers @kiwisummerlad]

Good read
John key was a POS.
I don’t think people realise what he really did to NZ.
Used mass immigration to prop up his pyramid scheme economy, cut funding to essential infrastructures, bled them dry, ruined education.
Then had audacity to basically give himself a knight hood.

[Holyhekatuiteka @2ETEKA]

Michael Laws today warned us that Luxon is going to follow in John Keys footsteps which will be a disaster. Laws calls key “very stupid” and a very “bad PM” who stuffed up race relations in NZ by acquiescing to the Māori Party and Signing us up to UNDRIP. Under Keys Govt they completely broke our education and Health systems and ran infrastructure into the ground.

Luxon has a deep reverence for Key, colleagues of his at AirNZ said Luxon’s deep admiration of Key bordered on an obsession. For example as soon as he found out Key had a house in Hawaii he promptly bought a holiday home near by.
On realising Key was golf buddies with Obama he flew Obama to NZ for dinner with him at great cost to AirNZ (and the tax payer).

Over the weekend at the Nat AGM, Key was the KEY speaker. He told the Nats to cool it on the “indigenous” issues and basically not to rock the boat. Sigh.

Laws says that Key ensured that the Nats relationship with Winston Peters was in such a state that it cost them the 2017 election, all because of Keys hatred for WP. Judith Collins writes in her memoir that Key told her he’s quitting politics because quote “I can’t deal with having to work with Peters”.

Keys hatred of WP is because WP is an economic and civil Nationalist, and a conservative . Key, like Luxon and Seymour are neoliberal Globalists who find NZFirst’s policies as anachronistic and as unfashionable as Winston’s pinstripes suits. All three fail to realise that principles like pinstripes never go out of fashion which is why next year will mark 50 years since WP started his Political career.

Key sold off state owned assets even AFTER a national referendum resulted in 90% OPPOSING it. Key used mass immigration as the perfect ponzy scheme for his ‘rockstar’ economy. It was all bullshit. He pandered up to the “indigenous” elite as a nod to the left to afford him to maintain his favourite place in Politics - standing for nothing apart from Political expediency.

It’s worth listening to Laws explain why Luxon is going to be yet another failed PM and why between National and Labour this country has been sold out and treated like garbage year after year.

At the conference Key smugly told the faithful “I didn’t think Winston Peters could work with David Seymour or Chris Luxon for that matter but it’s going great!” Why is it that we have to continue having ex politicians hanging around like a bad smell? I mean Helen Clark is literally the opposition leader at the moment and Ardern with all her millions in funding from leftist elite will continue to be the tumour that we can’t quite cut out.

John Key - the mentor no one needs, least of all one Christopher Luxon. The reason why National can’t break 40% is precisely because of Teflon John’s head in the sand guidance. This country needs leadership, pussyfooting will just delay the inevitable.

Why Luxon continues to seek guidance from useful idiots is a mystery, when he has all the decades of experience and wisdom of the best political operator sitting to his left right there in the house.

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@fhearghuis @aniobrien @Rockynz_1 He’s trying to cut back on his lying addiction.

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@PhiggyPhig @aniobrien Whose deaths were they responsible for.

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@frans_beever @aniobrien Like the cheap toilet paper they put in public toilets, one wipe won’t do.

[Kiwi summers @kiwisummerlad]

If you’re voting Labour, you’re voting for this evil arrogant liar.
Take a moment and read Ani’s write up.
It doesn’t hurry to be informed.

[Ani O'Brien @aniobrien]

READ: https://t.co/WNXmeMUJy7
"Instead of accepting responsibility, acknowledging uncertainty, and explaining the difficult trade offs ministers faced, Chris Hipkins has constructed an elaborate narrative in which responsibility always seems to belong to someone else. Officials failed him, the Ministry failed him, the Royal Commission misunderstood events, documents are remembered differently, and contexts have changed."

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@SonofOmahu @TrevorH53038397 @dbseymour Oh oh someone can’t handle a different point of view.😁

[Prof Marewa Glover @MarewaGlover]

There’s still time to protect New Zealand 🇳🇿 from the sad transformation happening in Europe. Please Party Vote NZ First @nzfirst — they’re the only party who understand the threat to our children, women and culture. NZ First is a party of New Zealanders who care deeply about saving NZ.

We visited Munich about 10yrs ago. I was shocked at how much it had changed, for the worse. Less than 50% of the Munich population were German. We couldn’t walk around without Middle-Eastern men openly ogling our daughter (aged about 11). It felt unsafe and dangerous. A culture that normalises men behaving like that is not compatible with our culture in NZ.

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@SonofOmahu @TrevorH53038397 @dbseymour No Luxon is a globalist shill, a traitor to our country.
But Seymour is also corrupted, this is just him playing damage control.
He supports the FTA that he allegedly didn’t read or know what it contained.
He’s full of it, a traitor as well, I don’t trust a word he says anymore.

[Ximene @dellavaris]

Brilliant NZ broadcast journalist - Dan Wootton - exposes Britain's moves to shadow-ban alternative news on Youtube and ban the use of VPNs.

There is no doubt that NZ's uniparty will adopt this draconian crack down on free speech if it gets the chance 😫

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@Kiwipally WFT where is the silver lining, this just seems to get worse by the day.

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@FullTwatforward @TheWarRoomNZ Most odd indeed, it is certainly a lot clearer.
I can only speculate that it paints to many words for the article.

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@actparty Does this mean you want to export immigrants?
That would be the same as ‘defending the values that separate free countries from controlled ones’

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@Infideliter2022 A vote not taken is a vote for the mental class.

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@8bitYoshi @RemigrationNZ 😂😂 no that would be terrible.

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@Infideliter2022 @MarkItOnce It’s more your influence.
Give it one last go, if NZFirst get the numbers we can be certain either way as to whether we really have any control.