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Showing posts with label Sovereignty. Show all posts
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Wednesday, 6 February 2019

Waitangi Day, the Treaty and its Articles

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A Colmer Brunton poll in Feb.2017 found 31% of Kiwis thought Government should not attend the Waitangi celebrations. I wonder it that's changed.
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It made headlines when Jacinda Ardern, among others, did not know the Articles of the Treaty of Waitangi, and the interviewer did not enlighten us. Indeed,  of the dozen or so articles published on Waitangi 2019 so far, not one has dealt with the Articles —or the history of the Treaty. Here's a brief summary: