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Unwritten rules: why claims of a missing ‘fourth article’ of the Treaty don’t stack up

Some say an oral promise of religious protection read out at Waitangi in 1840 amounts to a fourth article of the Treaty. But the historical evidence...

04.02.2025 8

The Conversation

Paul Moon

Blowing the dust off NZ’s ‘founding documents’ reveals the hold they still have on today’s Treaty debate

There is power in paper. Anyone who denies the potency of history’s dusty documents needs only look at the current incendiary debates over proposed...

12.09.2024 5

The Conversation

Paul Moon