Steven Gaskell: The Great Spiritual Rebrand - Now Featuring the Waitangi Treaty Clause

Get ready to light your sacred incense, because the art world has finally achieved peak cultural enlightenment. In a stunning theological breakthrough, the holy family has been officially naturalized. That’s right, the classic Nativity scene, that ancient Palestinian story, has been given a definitive Aotearoa makeover. A swaddled baby Jesus in the manger, a weary Joseph, a beatific Mary, and the three wise men have all been decisively recast as Maori. For the low, low price of $160, you can own this bold reimagining and prove your cosmopolitan sensibilities right in your own living room, because nothing says "quiet devotion" like a conversation-starting piece of theological revisionism.

Eliora: Believing One Race Is Superior to Another

Activism does not come from all Maori. New Zealanders all have Maori as friends and relatives, who are good, hardworking contributing people.

Why should a small percentage of the 16% of Maori in New Zealand tell us that they are taking over?

It makes no sense. But it’s happening.

Michael Bassett: Labour sows the wind, and reaps the whirlwind

Sowing the winds of racial tension in New Zealand began decades ago under careless governments. Now we are starting to reap the whirlwind. Maori aristocrats have built up such a sense of entitlement, with a cornucopia of fabrications and grievances, that they are starting to fall out over how rapidly they can clap on the pace of the gravy train. Meka Whaitiri’s desertion of the Labour Party is the latest sign that radicals are at sixes and sevens over pushing even harder for a Maori take-over of New Zealand.