Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jun 25, 2024 5:08:58 GMT 12
WAITANGI TRIBUNAL: RECORD NUMBER OF URGENT CLAIMS
Since the beginning of the year, the tribunal has heard urgent claims on topics as different as the disestablishment of the Māori Health Authority, the repeal of section 7AA of the Oranga Tamariki Act and Māori Ward referendums. What ties them together is that each issue relates to policies laid out in the new Government’s coalition agreements.
The tribunal put it this way in their urgent report on Māori Wards and Constituencies: “We wish to make the general point that a consistent theme runs through this and other recent urgent applications to the tribunal: ‘An assumption on the part of the Government that the coalition agreements that led to its formation override or take precedence over the Crown’s obligations under the Treaty of Waitangi’.”
As seen throughout the year at places like the Hui ā Motu at Turangawaewae and at subsequent hui, when there is a concern that by and for Māori policies are being eroded away, Māori people will fight it through whatever means available. So even though the findings of the Waitangi Tribunal are only recommendations, it is a powerful body to give Māori concerns a voice.....
www.teaonews.co.nz/2024/06/24/waitangi-tribunal-record-number-of-urgent-claims/
Since the beginning of the year, the tribunal has heard urgent claims on topics as different as the disestablishment of the Māori Health Authority, the repeal of section 7AA of the Oranga Tamariki Act and Māori Ward referendums. What ties them together is that each issue relates to policies laid out in the new Government’s coalition agreements.
The tribunal put it this way in their urgent report on Māori Wards and Constituencies: “We wish to make the general point that a consistent theme runs through this and other recent urgent applications to the tribunal: ‘An assumption on the part of the Government that the coalition agreements that led to its formation override or take precedence over the Crown’s obligations under the Treaty of Waitangi’.”
As seen throughout the year at places like the Hui ā Motu at Turangawaewae and at subsequent hui, when there is a concern that by and for Māori policies are being eroded away, Māori people will fight it through whatever means available. So even though the findings of the Waitangi Tribunal are only recommendations, it is a powerful body to give Māori concerns a voice.....
www.teaonews.co.nz/2024/06/24/waitangi-tribunal-record-number-of-urgent-claims/