JC: Waitangi Day – A Day of Pride

Waitangi Day will never bring unity. New Zealand Day just might.

In keeping with good left-wing journalistic practices, I have purposely given you a misleading headline. Well, at least partly misleading, because when I was growing up (I’m about to enter my eighth decade) it was a day of pride. New Zealand in the 1950s, soon after the end of WWII, was pretty settled, with people living in peaceful communities and one could say, to all intents and purposes, unified. I remember when two races came together on the day at Waitangi in the cause of a celebration. Can the same be said today? No. Why?

NZCPR Weekly: New Zealand Day

Dear NZCPR Reader,   

This week we review the history of Waitangi Day and outline the danger to society posed by cultural fundamentalists, our NZCPR Guest Commentator Anthony Willy looks back at the founding of New Zealand and calls for an end to separatism, and our poll asks whether you would support a return to New Zealand Day on February 6th to celebrate Prime Minister Norman Kirk’s vision of ‘one nation, many people, equal rights’.

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