Tasha Tukaokao is correct in labelling anti-Maori claims as slander. Here are some of the false claims from last week.
(1) The mixed blood descendants of Maori Chiefs have twisted the intent of the Treaty to make false claims. (2) Maori have submitted false and fraudulent testimony to the Waitangi Tribunal. (3) Maori are manipulating the Government and people of New Zealand in order to gain control of this land. (4) Maori are continually making false claims on New Zealand's resources such as Fisheries, Forestry, Foreshore, and Seabed. (5) Government Ministers are surrendering our beaches so they can be handed to iwi in secret. (6) Maori are in grievance mode. (7) Maori are demanding race based privileges. (8) Many Maori claims are now up to their fourth ‘full and final' settlement.
Writing that Maori are making false claims and Ministers are making secret decisions does not make sense when settlement decisions are debated and passed openly in Parliament.
The Treaty gave Maori ownership of their possessions (taonga) for as long as they wished. Maori are not in grievance mode. Treaty claims are dignified submissions, not demands, for legal compensation for possessions wrongly taken. It is not a privilege to seek fair compensation..
The Waitangi Tribunal accepts only one claim on any issue. The Government requires settlements to be properly managed.
The only people who seem to be in grievance mode at the moment are people writing anti-Maori letters to this paper. They should produce some evidence.

Peter Dey, Welcome Bay.