Post by Kiwi Frontline on Mar 22, 2024 7:33:35 GMT 12
Paul Paynter: THE TE TIRITI O WAITANGI JOURNEY
And so it is with any discussion about the Treaty of Waitangi. Seymour has the cojones and Luxon doesn’t. One of the best parts of MMP is it brings us fringe parties with fringe ideas and the courage to air them.
Seymour is right to try to engage the public on the Treaty.
In my lifetime the application of the treaty has changed radically. Putting aside the merits of these changes, it’s worth considering how this has happened. The evolution of the Treaty has been influenced largely by successive governments, the Waitangi Tribunal, government departments, academics, iwi, the media.
Some fine people reside in all these groups, but also a swathe of numpties. Notable amongst these are academics in the social sciences who dream up baffling PhD topics or postgraduate work. A lesser offender is the Waitangi Tribunal, which started out sounding a bit like an apparatus of the state. It was subsequently given a Māori majority and had become the mouthpiece for a more progressive kaupapa.
The approach to date has been for the groups above to tell us what it means rather than to take us on the journey.
The Te Tiriti o Waitangi was an exceptionally noble endeavour. The Crown may have subsequently failed to live up to their obligations, but they started well.....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2024/03/paul-paynter-te-tiriti-o-waitangi.html
And so it is with any discussion about the Treaty of Waitangi. Seymour has the cojones and Luxon doesn’t. One of the best parts of MMP is it brings us fringe parties with fringe ideas and the courage to air them.
Seymour is right to try to engage the public on the Treaty.
In my lifetime the application of the treaty has changed radically. Putting aside the merits of these changes, it’s worth considering how this has happened. The evolution of the Treaty has been influenced largely by successive governments, the Waitangi Tribunal, government departments, academics, iwi, the media.
Some fine people reside in all these groups, but also a swathe of numpties. Notable amongst these are academics in the social sciences who dream up baffling PhD topics or postgraduate work. A lesser offender is the Waitangi Tribunal, which started out sounding a bit like an apparatus of the state. It was subsequently given a Māori majority and had become the mouthpiece for a more progressive kaupapa.
The approach to date has been for the groups above to tell us what it means rather than to take us on the journey.
The Te Tiriti o Waitangi was an exceptionally noble endeavour. The Crown may have subsequently failed to live up to their obligations, but they started well.....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2024/03/paul-paynter-te-tiriti-o-waitangi.html