Those British who had just put an end to slavery laid down the foundations of New Zealand.
They would never have written, or agreed with, a Treaty that divided the country into two unequal races, having asserted the very opposite: that all New Zealanders were equal British subjects.
This was a precious legacy for the new nation, to be safeguarded and never taken for granted.
New Zealand has paid the price of ignorance and inactivity, allowing a determined minority to build a tribal, ‘indigenous’ and race-based division, which destroys the claim to equality and liberty of all others.