Why Settlements Must Come To An End From the Maori Party website:
“It is a known fact that Maori genetic makeup is stronger than others.” This piece of invented idiocy reflects how far up the mountain of arrogance the Maori Members of Parliament have been allowed to climb. Message to the Maori Party, The Labour Party, Maori Caucus, Maori Activists and those on the periphery ie the woke wet Labour Party. If you happen to read this article you will no doubt be upset by it. The writer comes from a colonial background and therefore has ancestors who have supposedly contributed to your past and present ills. That is now your problem, notIt is now their problem because of the way that they choose to view their life in New Zealand. If they choose to live in a time warp for whatever reason, then that is their decision. If they choose to live in a time warp for whatever reason, then that is their decision. In my view that perspective is detrimental. Whatever happened in the past (and nobody denies there were wrongdoings, particularly in regard to land confiscations), these wrongs have been adequately compensated. However, even these have been vastly exaggerated. Full and final payments were already completed in 1959. In 1926, a Royal Commission chaired by Sir William Sim (the Sim Commission) was appointed to consider whether confiscations under the New Zealand Settlement Act 1863 had been excessive. Reparations were made between 1926 and 1959. New Zealand's greatest Maori, Sir Apirana Ngata, said this when asked about land confiscations in our history: ™Some ha ve said that these confiscations were wrong and that they contravened the articles of the Treaty of Waitangi. The Government placed in the hands of the Queen of England, the sovereignty and the authority to make laws. Some sections of the Maori people violated that authority. War arose from this and blood was spilled. The law came into operation and land was taken in payment. It was their own chiefs who ceded that right to the Queen. The confiscations cannot therefore be objected to in the light of the Treaty∫ (Sir Apirana Ngata. The Treaty Of Waitangi. An Explanation. pp 15-16) Compensation must not become a gravy train for which there is no end. There needs to be a date whereby the process is concluded, once and for all. It is worth noting that both Ngai Tahu and Tainui have had significant top-ups to their original settlements. This is due to an arrangement whereby once total treaty settlement spending across the country passed $1 billion, the two iwi were entitled to payments proportional to other tribes' settlements. These top-ups are