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Cancel Waitangi and go elsewhere

by Whaleoil on February 5, 2010

The media are being asked to cough up cash to cover Waitangi Day commemorations on the Lower Te Tii marae.

A Ngapuhi elder is asking reporters and cameramen to hand over hundreds of dollars to cover the celebrations.

Prime Minister John Key has been welcomed onto the marae by local iwi Ngapuhi, but news outlets are being told to stay away unless they put forward a $500 service fee.

TV1, TV3 have been asked for $500 while Maori TV has been asked for $1000, Newstalk ZB reported.

FRO, easy fixed, go elsewhere and hold commemorations if these grasping highwaymen continue to extort. It is our national day and frankly these few aren’t doing anything to help national cohesion despite the advances in recent years.

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  • Rob

    I concur lets put waitangi and the treaty in it's proper place, history, and move forward as one Nation one People. We can start by changing the name to New Zealand Day and move the celebration to somewhere relevant to all New Zealanders. let the celebrations begin. In the interests of fairness we should set aside an area for protesters, somewhere insignificant say waitangi, and leave them to it.

  • Hagues

    Totally agree, give them the cold shoulder, take away the attention they would have got.

  • alex Masterley

    Every year we have bollocks of this sort.
    Time to pull the plug, I say.
    Lets do what our neighbours do and have a damn good party rather than a wingefest.

  • cupidstunt

    I have to say…they don't do themselves or their causes any favours by appearing as money grabbers. Do they need the money that badly? What is their thinking behind this?

    It really is ill conceived ideas like this that set back maori/pakeha relations by years!

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  • http://intensedebate.com/people/AuntieDrea AuntieDrea

    Hmmmm a taste of things to come for non maori New Zealanders, should Maori ever be given rights to the foreshore and seabeds, i think!!!

  • John Q Public

    Why did Maori TV have to pay more?

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/billhicks billhicks

    I hope what ever stupid media who payed this koha/bribe to get into this disgrace have received a receipt so inland revenue can tax this stench smelling maori shit…………..

    • michael

      and your shit don't stink billyboy?a person who steals the identity of the dead stinks of fraud, a deceitful faker.

  • Garfield Herrington

    It seems very reasonable to charge the broadcast media to attend. It is a similar situation to charging for the rights to broadcast sports events.