Well, your correspondent Te Ururoa Flavell after attending a Maori Party Policy wananga has joyously confirmed the rangatahi eloquence in explaining the progress in moving forward as a dual nation represented in the Maori and National Party coalition (your newspaper 29.7.11) as the path planned for NZ. It is now out in the open.
In the last few years and especially with FS&SB legislations, caring NZers have been accused of racism for arguing against Maori claims for titled ownership and ancestral right to own and control.
It has always been the argument of we so-called racists that that we are one people as Dame Whena Cooper has said (he iwi ko tahi tatau) and it has always been argued in support of this that the Crown should not be divested of ownership in perpetuity for all people. It has never been an anti-Maori issue.
We have all arrived in NZ from other countries since 1300.
We have all used and cared about nature's resources rising from the land. We are all people of the land who care deeply about all its resources and work together to preserve and protect those resources. We thought we had all considered all NZers to be one nation.
But now it seems the agenda has always been separate nations.
Again, dual nationality implies separate ownership, education, health, welfare legislation and funding. It has proven to require separate well paid advisory Boards as amplified in the Auckland City Council where over $1million is to paid as a consulting fee.
Is this a precedent for other seats of power? Is the democratic vote for the right to serve a thing of the past? What would the future hold under dual nationality? Over $100 million of Treaty claims haven't served to improve the lot of many Maoris. How can dual nationality make it better?

R.E. Stephens, Mt Maunganui.