Post by Kiwi Frontline on Apr 24, 2022 5:17:31 GMT 12
Point of Order: TREATY SETTLEMENTS, ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AND THE INSIDIOUS MARCH FROM CO-MANAGEMENT TO CO-GOVERNANCE
We can’t be sure, here at Point of Order, about when “co-governance” was first introduced to this country’s political vocabulary. For some time before ministers were talking about co-governance, they had been talking about co-management.
There’s a difference. A big difference, when it comes to constitutional arrangements within public authorities.
According to one distinction we uncovered, “governance” is the strategic task of setting the organisation’s goals, direction, limitations and accountability frameworks. “Management” is the allocation of resources and overseeing the day-to-day operations of the organisation.
The first mention of co-governance we could find on the Beehive website – which records all ministerial statements and speeches and statements since 1993 – was made by John Luxton in May 1997. As Associate Minister of International Trade, addressing guests at a meat industry function, he talked about the meat industry’s movement into the next millennium.
He said the development of co-governance principles under CER were among the government priorities he mentioned.
Obviously that had nothing to do with the Treaty of Waitangi, although someone is bound to pop up and insist everything that happens in this country is Treaty-related.
The first mention of co-governance in the context of Crown-iwi relations was made by Christopher Finlayson, Minister of Treaty of Waitangi Settlements, in 2009, according to our search of the Beehive website. He also shifted the parameters of Treaty-related expectations......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2022/04/point-of-order-treaty-settlements.html
We can’t be sure, here at Point of Order, about when “co-governance” was first introduced to this country’s political vocabulary. For some time before ministers were talking about co-governance, they had been talking about co-management.
There’s a difference. A big difference, when it comes to constitutional arrangements within public authorities.
According to one distinction we uncovered, “governance” is the strategic task of setting the organisation’s goals, direction, limitations and accountability frameworks. “Management” is the allocation of resources and overseeing the day-to-day operations of the organisation.
The first mention of co-governance we could find on the Beehive website – which records all ministerial statements and speeches and statements since 1993 – was made by John Luxton in May 1997. As Associate Minister of International Trade, addressing guests at a meat industry function, he talked about the meat industry’s movement into the next millennium.
He said the development of co-governance principles under CER were among the government priorities he mentioned.
Obviously that had nothing to do with the Treaty of Waitangi, although someone is bound to pop up and insist everything that happens in this country is Treaty-related.
The first mention of co-governance in the context of Crown-iwi relations was made by Christopher Finlayson, Minister of Treaty of Waitangi Settlements, in 2009, according to our search of the Beehive website. He also shifted the parameters of Treaty-related expectations......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2022/04/point-of-order-treaty-settlements.html