Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jul 5, 2021 3:04:21 GMT 12
ACT CALLS FOR PARLIAMENT TO DISCARD 'REDUNDANT AND IMPRACTICAL' DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
ACT leader David Seymour says "Helen Clark got it right" by not signing up to the UN Declaration of Indigenous Peoples in 2007, and is now calling for all parties in Parliament to renounce the declaration.
New Zealand was one of only four countries that did not join the declaration when it was established in 2007, though National later signed up in 2010.
But Seymour says Parliament never voted for New Zealand to join the declaration in the first place and it happened "without full democratic consent".
"John Key got it wrong when his government signed the declaration," Seymour said on Sunday.
"He may have thought it was just symbolism, but it is now creating great division with the He Puapua report demanding it transforms New Zealand's constitutional arrangements with 'declaration compliance' by 2040."....
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ACT leader David Seymour says "Helen Clark got it right" by not signing up to the UN Declaration of Indigenous Peoples in 2007, and is now calling for all parties in Parliament to renounce the declaration.
New Zealand was one of only four countries that did not join the declaration when it was established in 2007, though National later signed up in 2010.
But Seymour says Parliament never voted for New Zealand to join the declaration in the first place and it happened "without full democratic consent".
"John Key got it wrong when his government signed the declaration," Seymour said on Sunday.
"He may have thought it was just symbolism, but it is now creating great division with the He Puapua report demanding it transforms New Zealand's constitutional arrangements with 'declaration compliance' by 2040."....
www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/07/act-calls-for-parliament-to-discard-redundant-and-impractical-declaration-on-the-rights-of-indigenous-peoples.html