Waitangi celebrations peaceful for a change - Video

Key is looking too see if his Mate Sharples is tied up at the top of the pole.And he goes on to say that it was a very peaceful weekend?With tens of thousands that attended,probably Key had 500 body guards,too look after the sweet young lad.

Glen in someway I was looking at the bright side and not the oppsite..We must come to term with the flag and let it fly of good hope and peace to the nations unless
you think otherwise is what the iwi's has been always wanted there own indepentent country to themselves an example of Great Britain devided Scotland, Wales,england and Ireland into separated countries..
What I can gathered is the Maori wanted there own indepentent country to themselves is the only way to break the spirits of the flag into Peace and Good Hope TO ALL NATIONS..
The flag was Tabu' until such time that will meet it's criteria's otherwise there is no Peace between the nations..

Jan, do you actually read the news and the majority of comments? The flag is doing the opposite, it's dividing the nation, not bringing it together.

I am sorry Glen' the flag is of good hope and to bring happiness and Peace to the mixed nation..
The flag has been granted it's goodlucky charm since Mr. Key's picture look up into the thin air..

Brick' as life without God was people to generation ago??That explained how satan's men still on earth gathering his army of terror's and all come down to Eve of Eden that ate a fobbiden apple given by the slinky snake..

Jan, you should listen to your elders. They don't like the flag, to them it means trouble and is precisely why it was not flown at Waitangi. The likes of Harawira is making a bad name for Maori and the elders know that all too well.

Hello Jan.
I understand more than most about the underlying symbolism that envelopes our lives as humans culture and society.
I’ve become an atheist to nationalism as an atheist is to the belief in spirituality.
In years to come I believe people will laugh at how people have ever based their identity and their cultural practices around the nation state as people today find it hard to believe that anyone could base their identity and beliefs around their religion.
Sure, burning a flag is insulting for some as spitting on the Cross is for others.
I am just adding a view which for many is probably beyond them, as was life without God was to people generations ago.

Mr. Key is looking at nothing but the thin air in his picture, the worldwide must probably think the same as me..
Totara's bad attidute towards the Maori flag should wash your mouth out with the plublic toilet's full of shit water..
Sorry Allien the Priminster has granted the Maori people loan for there houses and they have more right's on the matter and what was taken or stolen from Maori should give half of it back..Brick' the flags are worth more to the country then that cheap cloth you have on..
Anyway Key looks healthy in his picture..

3news is racist and doesn't post most comments but comments made by europeans. racist comments made by europeans or non maori.

Alien, there you go not knowing what you are on about.

The difference between the Welcome home loan system and the Kainga Whenua system is that the state is acting as guarantor.

The land also has to be Maori owned for someone to be eligible.

There is a couple of huge differences with the welcome home loan and the new Kainga Whenua.

Shall I explain the legal technicalities of Guarantor for you? there is a very big difference between the welcome home loan scheme and the new Maori scheme.

Someone with a Kainga Whenua can willingly stop paying, retain the land and the state will take away the home and the state is required to repay the loan.. whether that be via selling the house or by just using tax payer funds.

So tell me alien, what is the equivilent scheme for non Maori where there exists a Guarantor (via Housing NZ), it certainly isnt Welcome home loans (because if you default on that they take the land and the house).

Also I dont if Maori would ever give any other ethnic group permission to build on their ancestral land.

Would love to know what the equivilent scheme is so if I get sick of living in a house I can just stop payments and pitch a tent.