This book dares to face the fundamentals and ask the tricky questions, to refuse to bow down to the imposed dogma and ideology. What is racism? Is this apartheid? Who really did break the Treaty? The answers are clear.

The grave situation can only be faced with an understanding of the full story of New Zealand’s unique history and the events that have brought this division, commencing in 1975 with the formation of the permanent Waitangi Tribunal, and becoming more extreme over the years since.

This is a must-read book, a suitable text to stimulate a much-needed community discussion.

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During its four hundred years of existence the Empire brought order and relief to many unenlightened societies by ridding them of superstition, tribal warfare, cannibalism, female infanticide, head-hunting, human sacrifice, piracy, personal insecurity and, in India, suttee and thuggee. Its greatest achievement was its abolition of the slave trade and of slavery within its territories from 1807 onwards. Britain led the world in the crusade – something that no other nation had the power or the will to do – thus redeeming the earlier mistake of being involved in the Atlantic slave trade.

In telling this fascinating story the author covers 101 colonies by looking at their condition before the British arrived, how they fared under British rule, and how they have conducted themselves since acquiring their independence. The book gives the modern reader an insight into what the Empire was really like for those who lived in it, fought in its wars and travelled around it in their various capacities.

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Its economic methods of domination are backed by its traditional bullying and intimidation, such as its rapid and unnecessary arms build-up, aggression against its neighbours in the South China Sea and its penetration into other oceans and continents in which it has no legitimate purpose or presence.

China chose New Zealand as the first Western country with which to have a Free Trade agreement, which is more about colonising and dominating New Zealand’s economy than about free trade. The same thing happened in Australia with its Free Trade agreement with China in 2016. The governments of both countries have bent over backwards to accommodate the interests of China Inc. – often at the expense of the prospects and interests of ordinary Australians and New Zealanders.

The donations to political parties by Chinese business interests, often acting on behalf of China’s government, and the post-retirement financial rewards by Chinese companies to politicians who oblige China during their term of office are corrupting our democracy and public life.

Unlike other foreign investors, the companies from mainland China have a strategic goal not of buying our produce on the open market but of owning the whole supply chain from farm gate Down Under to the supermarket shelf in China, cutting Australians and New Zealanders out of the benefits that accrue from adding value to a product.

This book should be read by every Australian and New Zealander since China’s activities affect the future prospects of our two countries in respect of economic welfare, sovereignty and even democracy itself. It is a case of getting a grip on the situation now or sleepwalking to a situation where we will finish up as lowly paid serfs in the lands that were built by the sweat and toil of the pioneers.”,

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