Race based politics

It is a testament to Don Brash that Helen Clark now says she will set a deadline for lodging historical Treaty claims. Pity she is creating new contemporary claims even faster than historical ones are being settled.

In what I think is a salutory lesson about the limitations of dividing NZers up into Maori and non-Maori camps, it is reported today that the man in charge of determining who is a Ngai Tahu Maori is in fact 100% non Maori himself.