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#Russia and #Iran have signed a ‘comprehensive partnership agreement’ valid for 20 years.

Unlike a similar #treaty with N. Korea, it states that if one party is attacked, the other is not obliged to provide defense, but they won't arm the attacker.

amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/01/16/eur

CNN · Russia’s growing ties with Iran have shaped the war in Ukraine. A new treaty raises the stakes for Trump’s administrationBy Clare Sebastian

Tens of thousands to converge on NZ parliament as march to protest controversial Māori rights bill reaches capital

Up to 50,000 expected to take part in the last stage of the nine-day protest which began last week in opposition to the Treaty of Waitangi bill

theguardian.com/world/2024/nov

#News #Aotearoa #newzealand #Treaty #Waitangi #Maori

The Guardian · Tens of thousands march on NZ parliament in protest against Māori treaty billBy Eva Corlett

Australians, esp journalists, politicians and commentators maintaining their focus on Lydia Thorpe's swearing-in 'validity' and her right to be in the Senate are willfully missing point.

When they focus on her behaviour and manners at APH rather than what she was communicating, they are willfully missing the point.

Those who opine she disagreed with the Voice and so now its all her fault the referendum did not get up must also pretend there was not an LNP fronted, billionaire funded campaign against the Voice, and are willfully missing the point.

The point is that over two centuries of colonialism, dispossession and injustice have profound, ongoing consequences, and these need to be acknowledged. And owned.

And this ownership has an unbroken chain of custody dating back to 1788. So the choice to retain that family as our Head of State means non-FN folk must accept the bad with the anodyne kitch 'good', and own this too.

Why are we so willfully blind to this? Why is this so difficult to understand and communicate?

Hikoi returning from Waitangi, praying on the bridge, 1984
A group of Maori halted before batton carrying police. In the centre of the frame a Maori man in a cloak holds a flag with Maori patterning. In the rear, to his right, another Maori man has on a sweatshirt with the words, 'The Treaty is a Fraud'. Many in the group have their heads bowed. The woman on the right is wearing a long dress with an embroidered star above each breast.

#Hikoi #Waitangi #Maori #Treaty #Fraud #NewZealands #moe_tahurangi #Matapihi #Kōtuia #Demonstrations #Ethnicgroups #Activists #Flags #Māori #photographicgelatin #photographicpaper #silver #selenium #gelatinsilverprints #worksofart #metallictoning #Contemporary

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