Anzac Day, the Land Wars and the Kiwi identity
OPINION: I'm sympathetic to the call to commemorate the New Zealand wars of 1845 to 1872 as part of Anzac Day events. But it would be a mistake.
It is odd, really odd, that many New Zealanders are much more familiar with details of, say, the Dam Busters air raids, Dunkirk, or the Somme than of Orakau, Gate Pa, or Wairau.
It is that gap, that lack in our national memory, which seems to have driven a petition to commemorate the New Zealand
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