NOTE the new bird, a korimako/bellbird in the heading.
Michael Bassett
The NZ Herald and Northland Age had to withdraw an article written by ex LP MP Michael Bassett who thinks we are being Māori-fried. He wrote:
- The use of Aotearoa only recent, despite evidence it was used in the 1840s and before, and use of New Zealand is much more recent.
- He selects 1860 the Māori population of Auckland Tāmaki Makarau as only 800 and fails to mention why. mainly government's claim that Ngāti Whātua were in rebellion and they to the Waikato. The population in 1840 and 1880 was much higher.
- He wants schools to celebrate the “more developed culture” that Britain supposedly brought to the South Pacific, and fails to mention most fled from poverty and oppression..
