Post by Kiwi Frontline on Nov 18, 2023 5:05:19 GMT 12
Mike Butler: CO-GOVERNANCE, NOT THE TREATY.
Anthropologist Dame Anne Salmond persists in claiming that ACT’s David Seymour proposes rewriting the Treaty of Waitangi from scratch while the ACT Party website actually says the referendum is on co-governance.
Dame Anne dashed off yet another column that was published by NewsHub yesterday asserting that Seymour was being “disrespectful”, “arrogant”, and “presumptuous” in the extreme.
Its ironic that Dame Anne appeared to disrespect Seymour in her characterisation of him while asking for respectful debate on the issue. She did not do what she wants others to do.
Had Dame Anne clicked on the ACT Party website policy pages, she would have seen that what is proposed is a Treaty Principles Act that would say:
1. All citizens of New Zealand have the same political rights and duties.
2. All political authority comes from the people by democratic means including universal suffrage, regular and free elections with a secret ballot.
3. New Zealand is a multi-ethnic liberal democracy where discrimination based on ethnicity is illegal
The public would vote for or against the act becoming law, like the End-of-Life Choice Act referendum in 2020.
To be clear. Those three points are NOT the treaty.
They are the three clauses of a proposed Treaty Principles Act which describes our country as a multi-ethnic (since the goldrush) liberal democracy (universal suffrage conferred in 1893) in which rights are based on citizenship, not ethnicity.
That is how a mandate for a policy is arrived at in a democratic country. Controversial policies should not be sneaked through while hoping that nobody notices.
Now this is what the treaty says:....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/11/mike-butler-co-governance-not-treaty.html
Anthropologist Dame Anne Salmond persists in claiming that ACT’s David Seymour proposes rewriting the Treaty of Waitangi from scratch while the ACT Party website actually says the referendum is on co-governance.
Dame Anne dashed off yet another column that was published by NewsHub yesterday asserting that Seymour was being “disrespectful”, “arrogant”, and “presumptuous” in the extreme.
Its ironic that Dame Anne appeared to disrespect Seymour in her characterisation of him while asking for respectful debate on the issue. She did not do what she wants others to do.
Had Dame Anne clicked on the ACT Party website policy pages, she would have seen that what is proposed is a Treaty Principles Act that would say:
1. All citizens of New Zealand have the same political rights and duties.
2. All political authority comes from the people by democratic means including universal suffrage, regular and free elections with a secret ballot.
3. New Zealand is a multi-ethnic liberal democracy where discrimination based on ethnicity is illegal
The public would vote for or against the act becoming law, like the End-of-Life Choice Act referendum in 2020.
To be clear. Those three points are NOT the treaty.
They are the three clauses of a proposed Treaty Principles Act which describes our country as a multi-ethnic (since the goldrush) liberal democracy (universal suffrage conferred in 1893) in which rights are based on citizenship, not ethnicity.
That is how a mandate for a policy is arrived at in a democratic country. Controversial policies should not be sneaked through while hoping that nobody notices.
Now this is what the treaty says:....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/11/mike-butler-co-governance-not-treaty.html