Graeme Spencer: The South Canterbury Museum promotes matariki as a special day.

 Special day - what a joke - it wasn't, still isn't, it was relatively unknown until comrade Jacinda promoted it in an effort to bestow Maori wonderfulness on an unsuspecting public. It didn't bother her that it costs NZ businesses around $450 million per year.

Matariki was never a maori "thing". The so called maori new year is just a woke cultural appropriation of something that never was. Do people not wonder why it's never been celebrated before and all of a sudden it appears on the scene and nobody questions it?

So what are we celebrating here ?

- the theft of our water

- the theft of our marine and coastal areas

- the waste of money spent on bi-lingual road signs at the expense of the quality of the roads

- is it the continuing rollout of the racist He Puapua document that aims to establish Maori sovereignty by 2040?. It is a document of segregation, not of unity and spells the end of democracy as we know/knew it.

- the ruination of our Countries name

- the perverting of our democracy and legal system with tribal customs based on tikanga

- the teaching of one the world's most useless language to our children

- the intrusion of Maori into Councils by ethnicity avoiding democratic elections

Not much worth celebrating in my opinion.

Enjoy the day off but be aware it comes at a cost, it is all part of an agenda, taking people's minds off the other events that are destroying our country. It is a contrived, cultural farce.

Graeme Spencer is a staunch New Zealander who believes in racial equality and one law for all.