Dear Editor Part-Maori Rawiri Waititi has dredged up the hoary tale of how the tribes ‘lost’ all but 4% of the land they once owned. Anybody less ignorant of our history than he appears to be knows that most of the 96% was sold eagerly by the tribal chiefs
Chongyi Feng University of Technology Sydney Dr Feng Chongyi is Associate Professor in China Studies, University of Technology, Sydney and adjunct Professor of History, Nankai University, Tianjin. He is China’s first holder of PhD in contemporary Chinese history and served as head of China Studies at UTS for 11
Kai Tangata A war party, a war party! Footsteps pound the sacred warpath Many heads are sought Many slaves are sought This is the work of Tumatauenga.1 Behold The chisel of Mataora2 The strong back The base of the spine The buttock spirals The thigh The war belt The
He is not so mighty yet that he is above fear; nay, doubt ever gnaws him J R R Tolkien, “The Lord of the Rings” 100 years ago, the first step was taken on the road to tens of millions of deaths and decades of misery for nearly ¼ of humanity.
John Maunder sunlive.co.nz Some of the answers to the complexities of the climate system are given in my recently published book Fifteen shades of climate… the fall of the weather dice and the butterfly effect. The following are extracts are from pages 203- 207. When I was in
It was in the 1980s that the left-elite were shocked by revelations that George Orwell had maintained a list of suspected British Stalinists. That anyone who’d read Animal Farm could be shocked by Orwell’s antipathy to Stalinism is an object lesson in Doublethink. Because Orwell, while still
hobsonspledge.nz In a letter on Treaty Settlements Office Ministerial letterhead dated 9 September 2019, Treaty Negotiations Minister Andrew Little, in regards to a pamphlet arguing that everyone ought to be treated equally before the law, stated: “The pamphlet….. curiously ignores the fact that Maori were not treated equally before
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Is Charles Hamilton an oppressed, neglected cultural giant? After all, who reading this can name anything he wrote? His books are mostly long out of print and adaptations of his work forgotten. Yet Hamilton’s thousands of stories were once bestsellers, adapted for radio, television, comic books and stage plays.
Smoked Paprika the Next Big Thing Paprika as we all know is made from ground up dried peppers. Peppers come in all shapes, names, colours, sizes, sweetness and levels of heat. Peppers as everyone should know are indigenous to South America and were introduced to Europe and then filtered on
The great Richard Feynman warned that “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool”. The problem, though, is that some people want to be fooled so very, very badly. So they’ll happily believe the most obvious nonsense, if it’
Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com Don Brash was Reserve Bank Governor from 1988 to 2002, and National Party Leader from 2003 to 2006 Prime Minister, again and again, you and your Ministers refer to the “partnership” created by the Treaty of Waitangi. I wonder if you would be kind enough to
Michael Bassett bassettbrashandhide.com Political historian Michael Bassett CNZM is the author of 15 books, was a regular columnist for the Fairfax newspapers and a former Minister in the 1984-1990 governments Two bits of socio-economic news this last week collided. The first was that as many as 20%
Hobson’s Pledge Trust “Research” published by the New Zealand Royal Society that claimed Maori travelled to the Antarctic at least 1000 years before Europeans was ridiculed this week as unadulterated nonsense by straight-talking knight Sir Bob Jones. See Disgraceful NZ Royal Society The so-called “research” by a
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