We need to dump the Waitangi Treaty (updated with Treaty translations)
As it was never fit for purpose anyway
Sorry for the hit and run posts at the moment, I should be writing more on these topics but there’s a lot going on around me at the moment and it’s a little difficult to concentrate.
This is from Daily Southern Cross (an Auckland paper) on the 26 August 1843 just after the Wairoa “incident” (referred to as a massacre here) and 3 years and a bit after the Waitangi Treaty was supposedly signed. I say supposedly because this article is rather scathing of that process. It is worth reading in full if you have a horse in this race (linked in picture and caption).
There has been much debate over the last few decades about what Kawanatanga means. Now we know that it’s not a Maori word and that it means nothing (allegedly it is Hobson’s invention for “Governorship”).
It’s really time to have a country wide debate about where we want to go in the future because the so called ‘left wingers’ are actually ahead of us in t…
