Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jun 2, 2024 8:42:28 GMT 12
Piers Seed: THE TICKING TIME-BOMB UNDER THE WAITANGI TRIBUNAL.
In its reinvented guise taonga has been the great wrecking ball in the Tribunal’s arsenal. Without it the Tribunal would be next to powerless. It is a magic word, an abracadabra, the trump card, a “you shall not pass”. In essence, just say taonga and money and/or assets fall from the sky.
The burning question is – is it possible that for forty years the Tribunal has been allowed to strip New Zealand of any and every asset, and impose jaw-dropping obligations on the Crown, on the basis of a disputed word? That forty years of politicians – of all stripes – have just stood by and let this happen? Appallingly the answer is yes.
So what are the practical consequences of taonga’s reinvention? In the order of 70% of Waitangi Tribunal recommendations have been justified – in part or in whole – by a reinvented taonga. Let that sink in for a moment – seventy percent of Tribunal findings are based, to a greater or lesser extent, on a seriously flawed definition of a key word.....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2024/06/piers-seed-ticking-time-bomb-under.html
In its reinvented guise taonga has been the great wrecking ball in the Tribunal’s arsenal. Without it the Tribunal would be next to powerless. It is a magic word, an abracadabra, the trump card, a “you shall not pass”. In essence, just say taonga and money and/or assets fall from the sky.
The burning question is – is it possible that for forty years the Tribunal has been allowed to strip New Zealand of any and every asset, and impose jaw-dropping obligations on the Crown, on the basis of a disputed word? That forty years of politicians – of all stripes – have just stood by and let this happen? Appallingly the answer is yes.
So what are the practical consequences of taonga’s reinvention? In the order of 70% of Waitangi Tribunal recommendations have been justified – in part or in whole – by a reinvented taonga. Let that sink in for a moment – seventy percent of Tribunal findings are based, to a greater or lesser extent, on a seriously flawed definition of a key word.....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2024/06/piers-seed-ticking-time-bomb-under.html