Public Address 20/04/04 - Impasse

Tuesday, 20 April 2004, 11:54 am
Column: HARD NEWS from Russell Brown

PUBLIC ADDRESS 20/04/04 - Impasse

Impasse | Apr 20, 2004 11:30
Russell Brown's Hard News

Should we just burn all our history books then? The new Treaty of Waitangi website, launched yesterday, is wordy, serious and determinedly equivocal. The political response to it was predictable and a bit embarrassing..
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