NZ used to be a pretty idyllic place until the last 20 years or so. The Treaty of Waitangi was not the dividing force that it is today. 
When are we going to come into the present and live in equality together and stop referencing a document that was never meant to last forever? NZ became a British colony under Queen Victoria, and the Maori chiefs of the day wanted that. They wanted protection from other colonising nations, they wanted the constant warring with other tribes to stop. They wanted the British to take control and bring law and order. There definitely were abuses in the early days but for the most part the things that the Treaty set out to achieve were achieved. It served its purpose. It no longer applies. References to it must be taken out of NZ law or we cannot go forward in peace. 
There should be no more Waitangi Tribunal, no more Maori seats in parliament, no more Treaty "prinicples", no more privileges in law for one race. Those cunning grifters who are making a joke of our parliament have to be shut down for good. 
The Treaty is not our US Declaration of Independence, it's not our Brtish Magna Carta. It was a pragmatic agreement made in the early days of a new colony. It's 2025. Let's move on.
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