Waitangi Tribunal theme K - Māori Land Councils and Māori Land Boards [pdf, 3.4 MB]
...time, this historian suggests: the results would almost certainly have benefited everyone in that the cycle of dependency, into which Maori were forced slowly but relentlessly, could have been broken. Our national debt would also have been lower and environmental damage less considerable .... The author is careful to point out that this scenario is 'all speculative and counterfactual'. Some might consider the projected results of these speculations to be unduly optimistic. No...