Political reporter Joel Maxwell corresponds from the North for our national week, sharing thoughts, opinions and events in Letters from Waitangi. Dear friends, Sunrise today was as beautiful and profound as you might expect over the Waitangi grounds. Pink skies, hills across the harbour bathed in fog, hopeful faces turned towards morning light. READ MORE:Letters from Waitangi: Feeling and seeing the majesty of the backgroundHow about a mihimihi, introducing yourself, in te reo Māori?Letters from Waitangi: This was not the fraught, angry Waitangi of the telly RICKY WILSON/STUFF Jacinda Ardern answers reporters' questions after Waitangi dawn service. In other words it was about the same as usual as far as sunrises go in Aotearoa. There’s still enough of the old magic left, enough areas that weren’t stripped back into English-style farmland in the last two centuries, to remind us of the primordial world that sprang up on Gondwana’s runaway kid. It … [Read more...] about Letters from Waitangi: The dawn karakia, and more questions than answers