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The Green Party today expressed its extreme disappointment at the Government’s negative response to the UN draft declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples, which was recently passed by a two thirds majority of member countries on the UN Human Rights Council.

“Indigenous peoples from around the world have been negotiating this document for over a decade, in a process that began in 1985. They have repeatedly made concessions to the views of states such as New Zealand, Australia, Canada and the United States, yet those governments have continued to push their own integrationist agenda,” Green Party Maori Affairs Spokesperson Metiria …

By SUE EDEN, 27 September 2006 - National leader Don Brash has been accused of using the same argument against Maori that was used in the United States in the 1700s when black people were denied civil rights.

Dr Brash said in the Herald on Sunday that there were “few, if any” full-blooded Maori left.

“There are clearly many New Zealanders who do see themselves as distinctly and distinctively Maori but it is also clear there are few, if any, fully Maori left here. There has been a lot of intermarriage and that has been welcome.”

Dr Brash had been asked to comment …