It was a quiet Waitangi Day this year, compared to the last few. Opposition leader John Key continued his successful programme of getting about the place being likable. Fearless Leader Auntie Helen steered clear without earning the nation’s ridicule, presumable because we all remember the nasty reception she’s had in the past.
No-one climbed any trees or threw any mud or anything. How restrained.
There was, of course, this:
For the furriners, that’s National’s Prime Ministerial hopeful John Key on the right, and he’s greeting his alleged would-be assassin Tame Iti, on the left. That terror raids story just gets stranger and stranger as the months go on.