We stand for the cultivation of a New Zealand National culture anchored in the traditions of Western civilisation; as a counter-blast to the Hollywood and Madison Avenue global consumer "culture" that spews forth from the USA.

DEFINING NEW ZEALAND CULTURE

The high point of a really New Zealand culture was reached during the 1930s and 1940s and the generation of Poets Rex Fairburn, R A K Mason, Dennis Glover et al. Since world war 11 and the rise of America, New Zealand’s culture has been stunted and is on a downhill slide.

Today New Zealanders are hard pressed to define a national culture.

The poet Fairburn is a defining figure for New Zealand culture. Fairburn was not only a leading poet and art critic, but also recognised the negative influences of the banking and economic systems over culture, society and politics. His epic poem DOMINION should itself be a defining point for New Zealand culture. In this he traces the dead hand of the banking system and the death of all that it touches.

Fairburn rejected global culture and promoted art emerging from the soil and place of one’s birth. Unlike many of today’s artists and poets he considered that the artist’s role is to express the nature of the community and nation from which he grew. He referred to the "falseness of abstract art".

As defenders of our Western cultural heritage, we see our struggle as not simply one of politics or economics but as one of freeing our culture from the greed of individuals and corporations.