Good riddance

Winston Peters' Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Deletion Bill was voted down 63-51 last night. Good riddance. It was an appalling bill, which if enacted, would have effectively killed the Treaty by robbing it of any legal force. This would have allowed Maori to be sidelined, exactly as they were in the "golden age" of the 50's (and as they were in Marlborough, which is why we had the foreshore case). While Don and Winston's Dead White Males might want to turn back the clock on thirty years of Maori progress like that, I don't think the majority of New Zealanders do at all.