Related Content Alan Duff: Wake up and smell the coffee - life cannot be that bad Alan Duff: Maori must help Maori to fly high Alan Duff: Dare to imagine the endless possibilitiesIn 1823, Hongi Hika came down from the Far North and smashed my Te Arawa people, who had fled to Mokoia Island. This excuse-making is part of why we have Maori girl gangs and seemingly no Maori owners of superettes. If Africans are killing their own children, it has nothing to do with "cultural devastation" or colonisation. A Maori university lecturer recently excused our appalling rate of murdering children as a result of cultural devastation. Sounds like worse "cultural devastation" than being colonised.

Source: New Zealand Herald August 08, 2016 16:52 UTC