There’s a term that crops up whenever Aotearoa New Zealand’s political debates turn to the Treaty of Waitangi and its contemporary relevance: “race relations”.
We’ve heard it most recently attached to media punditry and political commentary about the ACT Party’s contentious Treaty Principles Bill, in former prime minister John Key’s plea to “take the temperature down a wee bit” in that debate, and now during the gathering at Tūrangawaewae marae in Ngāruawāhia.
