Anglo Saxon: Tax payer funded academic debunked on New Zealand's "illegal founding."

Anglo Saxon says Claire Charters is a radicalised academic with some outrageous claims and wild theories. Her salary comes out of our pockets.

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Geoff Parker: Alternative Facts And New Zealand's Selective History

There is something deeply ironic about accusations that the Coalition Government wants to teach New Zealand children “alternative facts” while some of those making the accusation present an extraordinarily selective version of our history.

The latest example in a letter to the Editor of the Waikato Times 22/8/26  is the claim that Māori had already established a sovereign nation before the Treaty of Waitangi and that British involvement simply destroyed an existing system of independent government.

The historical record is considerably more complicated.

Geoff Parker: He Whakaputanga / The 1835 Declaration of Independence.....

He Whakaputanga / The 1835 Declaration of Independence: A Brief, Fragile Experiment Now Politically Repurposed

In recent times, Māori-supremacy activists and sympathetic academics have attempted to revive the 1835 Declaration of Independence (He Whakaputanga) as a constitutional foundation for modern tribal authority in New Zealand. This campaign insists that the Declaration was “authorised” by Britain and remains legally relevant today. In reality, the Declaration was not authorised — but merely acknowledged or recognised — and even at the time carried no meaningful sovereign authority.

Bruce Moon: The dishonesty of Professor Margaret Mutu

There is abundant evidence1 that New Zealand had been visited and populated by non-Maori peoples before the Maori tribes arrived circa 1350, and by Europeans and others from the late eighteenth century onwards. The Maori exterminated pre-existing inhabitants2 and now lay claim to being ‘indigenous’. The advent of post-Maori arrivals by and large brought co-existence with extensive inter-breeding but not always in harmony.

None the less, brutal inter-tribal warfare, conquests and massacres continued, around one-third of the Maori population perishing in the so-called “Musket Wars” of 1807-37. The conflict arising from the arrival of Frenchman, Marion du Fresne in 1772 led to a morbid fear of “the tribe of Marion”. Chaotic selling of land in exchange for European consumer goods developed.