Post by Kiwi Frontline on Sept 11, 2023 5:23:29 GMT 12
Barrie Davis: MARANGA MAI AND THE DOCTRINE OF DECEIT
In 2010 a National government, prompted by the Maori Party, signed up to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. In 2019 the Labour government, then in coalition with NZ First, commissioned the He Puapua report to obtain opinions on how to meet the UNDRIP. The subsequent report proposes separate Maori authority across multiple layers of government, including a Maori Parliament or separate Upper House. The He Puapua report was withheld from the public until after the 2020 election when it was made public in 2021. NZ First leader, Winston Peters, claimed he did not know of the report and that he didn't agree to it being commissioned. National Party leader, Judith Collins, claimed that the Labour Government was secretly planning to hand power to the Maoris. In December 2022, the Labour government decided to put development of policy to implement UNDRIP on hold until 2024, after the October 2023 election.
Something similar to the He Puapua scandal is happening again now, except that this time they are doing it openly. The Human Rights Commission (HRC) published the Maranga Mai report in February 2023 which says, “The principal recommendation of Maranga Mai! tasks the government with committing to constitutional transformation and establishing co-governance … Central to this reform would be the government condemning and rejecting the constitutional application of the Doctrine of Discovery to Aotearoa…” The then Race Relations Commissioner, Meng Foon, reportedly said the most important step now was turning these plans into actions......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/09/barrie-davis-maranga-mai-and-doctrine.html
In 2010 a National government, prompted by the Maori Party, signed up to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. In 2019 the Labour government, then in coalition with NZ First, commissioned the He Puapua report to obtain opinions on how to meet the UNDRIP. The subsequent report proposes separate Maori authority across multiple layers of government, including a Maori Parliament or separate Upper House. The He Puapua report was withheld from the public until after the 2020 election when it was made public in 2021. NZ First leader, Winston Peters, claimed he did not know of the report and that he didn't agree to it being commissioned. National Party leader, Judith Collins, claimed that the Labour Government was secretly planning to hand power to the Maoris. In December 2022, the Labour government decided to put development of policy to implement UNDRIP on hold until 2024, after the October 2023 election.
Something similar to the He Puapua scandal is happening again now, except that this time they are doing it openly. The Human Rights Commission (HRC) published the Maranga Mai report in February 2023 which says, “The principal recommendation of Maranga Mai! tasks the government with committing to constitutional transformation and establishing co-governance … Central to this reform would be the government condemning and rejecting the constitutional application of the Doctrine of Discovery to Aotearoa…” The then Race Relations Commissioner, Meng Foon, reportedly said the most important step now was turning these plans into actions......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/09/barrie-davis-maranga-mai-and-doctrine.html