So many talking heads would concentrate.

I do not know a single soul who gives support to a referendum on the Treaty of Waitangi even though it is well past its ‘use by date’ as a means of getting the often warring tribes, by then becoming much more lethal with Musketry to accept the rule of UK law as a protection and a device to get the Nation moving forward in concert.

It is the notion of never written down in any of the original records of 1840, “Principles of the “Treaty” a notion entirely the creation of university trained elites in their tiny minds using unelected judiciary to create an expectation amongst many Maori that will only end in division and dissent from disappointment, that many of the great unwashed want placed under a microscope of discussion, that has a widespread support.
The now emerging overt threats of civil disorder, from Maori leaders who have embraced the system to enrich themselves are nothing more than a Poker hand of a pair of twos in a big bluff and must be called out.

The Original Treaty whether in native language or the language of the colonial power was a very simple one page document, cripes it had to be, the natives did not have a written Language and the Native language being oral was quite diverse across the land.

I remain unaware of any “principles” existing in native language of 1840, or english for that matter either.