Just when taxpayers are nauseated by the more than $1billion already given to unproven and behind doors Maori grievance claims, from across the Tasman comes a breath of fresh air showing greed is not endemic.

Australian of the Year - Adam Goodes - an Aboriginal AFL Australian footballer has stated he will do everything possible to improve the terrible conditions of Aboriginals, adding:
'It's not about wanting to get our land back, and its not about wanting compensation”. They just want to be treated with equality.

Maori were given equality with the British in 1840, with the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi.

Not partnership as some claim - but as Hobson said: 'One people with equal rights under British laws”. The latest obscene claim is from Ngapuhi, who fantasise they are owed $600 million.

What for exactly? When settlers arrived in the North the land was barren - tribes had been chased down to the Waikato.

Maori had no idea land had any monetary worth.

If Ngapuhi insist on having their land back, despite some being sold, then they need to compensate the Crown for all the roads, every building and facility that has been built on it since 1840.

They do not own any of these and the amount owing to the Crown would just about cancel out their claims. Finlayson please take note.

M Brooks, Tauranga City.