Even if Maori were the first to arrive –despite much evidence to the contrary – Maori are not in any meaningful sense “indigenous”. The word “indigenous” means “native to an area, since time immemorial”, as the Australian Aborigines are indigenous to Australia. But of course, Maori themselves talk of arriving in New Zealand on canoes, with their spirits departing at death to their original home in Hawaiki.
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Check out the latest media stuff ups both locally and around the world.
Cross-dressing students go to bat for murderous serial rapist.
Young Israelis might be deserting Likud, but not for the left.
The Greens promise $3b more for health at each of four budgets, a surplus a year later and $26.6b more debt by 2030/31, paid for with nearly $29b in new taxes. The Taxpayers’ Union says 17 other promises, worth $176.4b, are missing from the plan.
Hipkins ruled Greens and Te Pāti Māori out of police and corrections over the Mob pad photos. His own Tāmaki Makaurau candidate quit after a Mob video. Then he called the reaction racist and left her name on the ballot.
