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Waitangi Day should be the start of our summer holiday

When should we celebrate our national day? Forget politics, and look to the weather.

Rob Hosking
Thu, 06 Feb 2014

OPINION

Not for the first time, I am forced to wonder whether we are doing this Waitangi Day thing wrongly.

I am not one to get all hand-wringey about this. I know some people point to Australia Day as a contrast but the Australians are not without difficulties on their national day – some of

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Rob Hosking
Thu, 06 Feb 2014
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