Bruce Moon: “The whole truth and nothing but the truth” would be nice for a change would it not?

A heading in “The Post” for 15 December 2023 proclaims “The promise we should be keeping around the Treaty”.

It is followed by a picture of the recently defaced document in Te Papa being studied by two police officers and the caption “Protest group Te Waka Hourua deface a Te Papa exhibit displaying the English text of the Treaty of Waitangi.”

Peter Williams: Te Papa protest illogical

And where was security?

Here’s the first thing that came to mind after the news that protestors had been abseiling inside Te Papa and defaced the Treaty of Waitangi exhibit.

How the hell can you walk into a place like Te Papa, home to millions of dollars of valuable exhibits, with abseiling equipment and start climbing down a wall?