Post by Kiwi Frontline on Feb 1, 2024 6:52:56 GMT 12
Mike Butler: TREATY PRINCIPLES AND THREATS.
Those who have done well out of the invention of treaty principles “will object to their removal” and “use the loud voices and threatening tactics”, Auckland University Professor of Education Elizabeth Rata wrote last October.
So true. Once the ACT Party’s proposed Treaty Principles Bill became a reality, as soon as the government changed, those loud complaints rang out…..
….A vote is important in a democracy because majority support provides a mandate for policies that affect everyone.
Voters have been deliberately kept out of the loop on treaty policy with politicians and judges making questionable decisions behind closed doors.
Coalition partners National and New Zealand First have only agreed to support it through the first reading to select committee to which submissions from the public may be sent.
Rata is one of the few New Zealand scholars who is clear that there are actually two treaties of Waitangi – the 1840 “Articles” treaty and the 1986 “Principles” treaty.
“Astonishingly the parliamentary representatives who inserted the word ‘principles’ did not know what they meant. To include a word estranged from its meaning into legislation is an egregious political failure,” she wrote.
"The consequence of Parliament’s failure is a racially divided country and a group asserting co-governance rights," Rata wrote.
Such is the failure Seymour appears to be trying to fix.
The main criticism that he faces, that is that he is trying to “rewrite the treaty”, is straight disinformation, because the treaty has already been re-written, in 1986, quietly, without voter involvement.
Seymour has simply put the treaty issue up for debate, THIS TIME BY EVERYONE…...
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2024/01/mike-butler-treaty-principles-and.html
Those who have done well out of the invention of treaty principles “will object to their removal” and “use the loud voices and threatening tactics”, Auckland University Professor of Education Elizabeth Rata wrote last October.
So true. Once the ACT Party’s proposed Treaty Principles Bill became a reality, as soon as the government changed, those loud complaints rang out…..
….A vote is important in a democracy because majority support provides a mandate for policies that affect everyone.
Voters have been deliberately kept out of the loop on treaty policy with politicians and judges making questionable decisions behind closed doors.
Coalition partners National and New Zealand First have only agreed to support it through the first reading to select committee to which submissions from the public may be sent.
Rata is one of the few New Zealand scholars who is clear that there are actually two treaties of Waitangi – the 1840 “Articles” treaty and the 1986 “Principles” treaty.
“Astonishingly the parliamentary representatives who inserted the word ‘principles’ did not know what they meant. To include a word estranged from its meaning into legislation is an egregious political failure,” she wrote.
"The consequence of Parliament’s failure is a racially divided country and a group asserting co-governance rights," Rata wrote.
Such is the failure Seymour appears to be trying to fix.
The main criticism that he faces, that is that he is trying to “rewrite the treaty”, is straight disinformation, because the treaty has already been re-written, in 1986, quietly, without voter involvement.
Seymour has simply put the treaty issue up for debate, THIS TIME BY EVERYONE…...
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2024/01/mike-butler-treaty-principles-and.html