Te Whakaputanga

Hot on the heels of the payment of millions of dollars to a Saudi Arabian 'businessman' (extortionist more like it) John Key has just spent twenty six million dollars - of taxpayers money - trying to pretend New Zealand only has one flag. 

The 1835 flag - the tohu of our whakaputanga (the sign or emblem of Maori sovereignty) - has never been decommissioned.

Time we started honouring our first flag - Hone Heke chopped down the flagpole at Waitangi because the English refused to fly our flag on the very pole that Hone Heke had gifted them with the intention that BOTH flags should fly from it, and ever since the government has ignored and eroded the mana of Te Kara, the colours, the flag chosen by the United Tribes of Aotearoa in 1835 and recognised by the world.  Our flag was replaced by stealth and bullying.