(19-11-2024, 12:17 PM)dken31 Wrote: Genuine question: If the Treaty is a "living document" and as relevant today as it was 180 years ago, and NZ is still today a partnership between Maori and non-Maori, what should the situation be in 500 years time (assuming of course, for the sake of discussion, that NZ is still a nation in 500 years time)?How about we just work on keeping things on an even keel for the meantime and ignore any "500 years time" whataboutism?
Even in 500 years, should NZ still be a partnership between Maori and non-Maori, where the two "sides" can be in some way distinguished? Because any truly rational and logical person can surely see that that is forever going to maintain and under-current of discontent.
Or, if in 500 years NZ citizens will by then all just be "NZrs" (albeit with many varied ancestries), at what point is that reached?
You only have to look across the Tasman to see how disfunctional multicultural relations could have been if not for a well thought out document that ensured our indigenous population a reasonable 'shake of the stick'. The Treaty has served NZ well for the last 180+ years so how about we give it another 100 or so years before we start putting a best before date on it?