Treaty settlements require better publicity

Posted on 22-07-2012 17:19 | By PLONKER

the scam is easily spotted from this, it is bad and getting worse, so end reult while a few get face on the pigs back the many pay and pay, that can not last and will have consequences sooner or later I am sure.

Posted on 21-07-2012 17:32 | By YOGI

When your fore-fathers signed the treaty with the Queen of England all Maori agreed to be "one people" so that means we are all "New Zealanders" and that is all we need to know.

Posted on 21-07-2012 16:52 | By PLONKER

If you are proud then great, good for you, but don’t impose your dreams, desire or otherwise on me, chose and support your own whims!

Posted on 20-07-2012 21:08 | By RORTSCAM

Well Hoha according to you some ’maori’ don’t really regard themselves foremost as being NZers and that is fine by many of us.Just provide your details and we can look at cancelling your NZ passports and relocating you back to Hawariki or Taiwan or wherever.Incidentally what precisely were the so called wrongs committed against the maori people particularly as they were not one people but a disparate group of tribes."Cleaning up the mess" --I think not that will be left to the current generation of NZers after the jackals have had their fill from the trough.Incidentally what is the % of your maori ethnicity and what is the rest of your ethnicity. It may be it is your forefathers that we need to look to for the cleansing costs.

Posted on 20-07-2012 15:58 | By Hoha

Rorts - your unfounded comment can only be answered with I am Maori before I am NZer. I’m pretty sure every other culture would think the same. The Samoan people, Tongan, Chinese, Japanese, American who reside in NZ or where born here will say they are so before they say they are NZers. Do not assume being born in NZ means we are all NZers we have our own identities as a people of a culture which you seem to lack any sense of. The crown is rectifying the wrongs they committed against Maori people. “Cleaning up a mess” left by your forefathers. Great work Sunlive for bringing the lack of media attention to the forefront.

Posted on 20-07-2012 11:32 | By RORTSCAM

STOP the Rorts. ABOLISH biased Waitangi tribunal. TERMINATE treaty industry gravy train. ABOLISH race related parliamentary seats. NO special privileges for anyone. INCREASE educational attainment levels. CANCEL race based perks. Solution is not better publicity (spin)but to rid NZ of this insidious creeping cancer.WE should all be proud and happy just to be NZers if not butt out.

Posted on 19-07-2012 21:13 | By YOGI

Any would be better than the secret settlements that are happening now.

Posted on 19-07-2012 18:14 | By POCO O POCO

You can put a ring around that brainwave. Better publicized indeed -how about just some publicity about claims and not just when they are being given the coup de grace.A good start would be a brief summary of the claim and the alleged grievance the location of the recipients and how much is being paid .I think that could all be spelt out in 3oo or so words.We can all then draw our own conclusions.