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The Queen at Waitangi in 1990, where she first conceded the Treaty had been "imperfectly honoured". (Image: Getty)
Pattrick Smellie
A day to rememberWith the death of Queen Elizabeth II, many Māori of a certain age were recalling her historic visit to the Waitangi Treaty grounds at Paihia in 1990.That was the time that a Māori woman protesting threw a T-shirt at the Queen.The footage shows our late monarch looking a bit nonplussed, but she held her nerve and went on to make a speech famous for being the first concession by the head of state that the Treaty of Waitangi had been “imperfectly honoured”.That was a watershed moment in the relationship between Mā...

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