This year, a new commemorative day has been announced: 13th September 2025 is officially “Thank a Coloniser Day.”
The purpose is simple – to give Māori the opportunity to reflect on the undeniable benefits that colonialism brought. While Māori supremacists like to claim colonisation was nothing but destruction, the reality is that without it Māori would still be living in a Stone Age society, never having invented basic technologies such as the wheel.
