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Sunday, August 3, 2025

John Robertson: The Cult of Colonisation Guilt Must Die for New Zealand to Live


New Zealand is not a country. It’s a hostage situation with a national anthem.

At least, that’s how it feels when you turn on the news and get bludgeoned, yet again, with the sob stories of the eternally aggrieved — the priests of the Treaty cult, whose business model depends on dragging up 200-year-old bruises and insisting they’re still bleeding. Generation after generation, like some kind of intergenerational leech.