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| Thread ID: 138876 | 2015-02-04 23:14:00 | Why does the media continue to report on the protesters at Waitangi? | Roscoe (6288) | PC World Chat |
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| 1393620 | 2015-02-05 08:46:00 | Anyone who has ever raised a child can tell you that it's no good throwing a tantrum unless there is an audience. +1 :) Ken |
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| 1393621 | 2015-02-05 21:42:00 | And the Government have added a sweetener in line with their policy of Racism/Separatism by shelling out $8.89m just for Maori Health and Scholarships. Non Maori need not apply. HERE (www.sunlive.co.nz) What a timely announcement. :DBe fair they need the funding, where I am I pay $50 to see doctor, few miles up road, maori country, you pay $17. If you go up to Northland you pay nowt.. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 1393622 | 2015-02-05 21:46:00 | Let’s celebrate our unity. :D HERE (www.nzherald.co.nz)I that isn't sickening I will eat my hat. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 1393623 | 2015-02-06 01:12:00 | The Protesters must have read the posts here and decided to stay away! | PPp (9511) | ||
| 1393624 | 2015-02-06 01:44:00 | NZs equivalent of ISIS. | prefect (6291) | ||
| 1393625 | 2015-02-06 05:57:00 | I hope you all had a nice Maori Bitching Day. We did and went shopping then a walk. Time to change the name to New Zealand day and celebrate it like they do in Ozz and the US on their major country days.. | paulw (1826) | ||
| 1393626 | 2015-02-06 08:51:00 | Why can't we all be sensible like Paul? | Cicero (40) | ||
| 1393627 | 2015-02-06 11:19:00 | I vaguely remember it being called New Zealand day sometime during the 70s. Just Wiki'd it, and it wasn't called that for long.... Muldoon didn't like it! New Zealand Day In 1971 the Labour shadow minister of Māori Affairs, Matiu Rata, introduced a private member's bill to make Waitangi Day a national holiday, to be called New Zealand Day. This was not passed into law. After the 1972 election of the third Labour government under Norman Kirk, it was announced that from 1974 Waitangi Day would be a national holiday known as New Zealand Day. The New Zealand Day Act 1973 was passed in 1973. For Norman Kirk, the change was simply an acceptance that New Zealand was ready to move towards a broader concept of nationhood. Diplomatic posts had for some years marked the day, and it seemed timely in view of the country's increasing role on the international stage that the national day be known as New Zealand Day. At the 1974 celebrations, the Flag of New Zealand was flown for the first time at the top of the flagstaff at Waitangi, rather than the Union Flag, and a replica of the flag of the United Tribes of New Zealand was also flown. The election of the third National government in 1975 led to the day being renamed Waitangi Day because the new Prime Minister, Robert Muldoon, did not like the name "New Zealand Day" and many Māori felt the new name debased the Treaty of Waitangi.[2] Another Waitangi Day Act was passed in 1976 to change the name of the day back to Waitangi Day. |
Renegade (16270) | ||
| 1393628 | 2015-02-06 18:23:00 | Thanx for the info. Guess no politician on any side has had the guts apart from Winnie maybe to change the name back to NZ Day.. | paulw (1826) | ||
| 1393629 | 2015-02-06 19:12:00 | There are no Full Blooded Maoris and the trouble makers probably aren’t even half-caste. That is the nonsense of the whole matter. Even the late Sir Peter Tapsell admitted years ago, to a question in Parliament, that the last known full blooded Maori died in the 1940’s. More interesting reading HERE (www.stuff.co.nz). So why the hell everything seems to revolve around Maori eludes me, given there aren’t any. As the article says “The Racial Purity Train left the Station 200 years ago”. |
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