'The Treaty is a Fraud' badge

'The Treaty is a Fraud' was one of the resonant slogans of the Waitangi Action Committee, a collective of Māori activists founded in 1979.

In February 1981 the Waitangi Action Committee and Pākehā organisations disrupted celebrations of the Treaty of Waitangi at Waitangi. They protested that the Treaty was a fraud because governments had not addressed historic breaches of the Treaty.

In 1984 the Waitangi Action Committee, the New Zealand Māori Council, the Māori Women’s Welfare League, Te Kotahitanga and Te Kīngitanga organised a peaceful hīkoi to Waitangi to stop the Waitangi Day celebrations. The hīkoi, like the 1975 Land March, raised public and political awareness of the need to honour the Treaty of Waitangi.

The government subsequently amended the Treaty of Waitangi Act 1975 so that the Waitangi Tribunal could investigate historic grievances back to 1840 (when the Treaty had first been signed).

References: https://teara.govt.nz/en/nga-ropu-maori-organisations/page-3