Post by Kiwi Frontline on Dec 10, 2020 12:05:01 GMT 12
Bob Edlin: AN APOLOGY FROM THE CROWN BUT NOT FROM THE MAORI PARTY
In a political week distinguished by Stuff’s apology to Maoridom, the Crown was in the business of apologising to Maori, too, while the Maori Party pressed for even more apologies.
One Maori party co-leader – in his maiden speech to Parliament – pledged to be an unapologetic Maori voice while the other railed against early New Zealand governments as “monsters, murderers and rapists” and projected herself as a survivor of a “holocaust”.
A “holocaust”?
That same powerful word was bandied by the party’s founder, Dame Tariana Turia, some 20 years ago. She later apologised for using it to describe the experience of Maori. ......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2020/12/bob-edlin-apology-from-crown-but-not.html
In a political week distinguished by Stuff’s apology to Maoridom, the Crown was in the business of apologising to Maori, too, while the Maori Party pressed for even more apologies.
One Maori party co-leader – in his maiden speech to Parliament – pledged to be an unapologetic Maori voice while the other railed against early New Zealand governments as “monsters, murderers and rapists” and projected herself as a survivor of a “holocaust”.
A “holocaust”?
That same powerful word was bandied by the party’s founder, Dame Tariana Turia, some 20 years ago. She later apologised for using it to describe the experience of Maori. ......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2020/12/bob-edlin-apology-from-crown-but-not.html