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WAITANGI TRIBUNAL RELEASES SCATHING REPORT ON TREATY PRINCIPLES BILL
David Seymour’s Treaty Principles Bill is unfair, discriminatory and needs to be abandoned, a scathing Waitangi Tribunal report has found.
The Waitangi Tribunal described the bill “as a solution to a problem that does not exist”.
“Despite the constitutional significance of defining the Treaty principles in legislation and the importance of this to Māori, the Crown agreed to pursue the policy without any engagement or discussion with Māori.
“Māori did not want this policy and in fact many have been strongly opposed to it from the beginning.”....
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/unfair-discriminatory-waitangi-tribunal-released-scathing-report-on-treaty-principles-bill/J5J62VLZUFFXHC4N3ZB6R7CDOQ/
DAVID SEYMOUR WELCOMES CRITICAL WAITANGI TRIBUNAL REPORT
ACT leader David Seymour - the architect of the government's proposed Treaty Principles Bill - has welcomed a Waitangi Tribunal report, despite it recommending the idea be abandoned.
Waitangi Tribunal chair Caren Fox said the bill and a proposed review of Treaty clauses - put forward by New Zealand First - were part of a pattern of the Crown using Parliament's policy process against Māori.
However, Seymour saw the report as a contribution to the national conversation he had long been calling for.
"We need a national conversation about our founding document. Are there two classes of New Zealanders in partnership, each with different rights? Or are we a modern democracy where all citizens have equal rights?"
Seymour said he looked forward to having that discussion over the next several months....
www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/525346/david-seymour-welcomes-critical-waitangi-tribunal-report
TREATY PRINCIPLES UNDER SURFACE IN BANK VIEW
A Māori economist believes Reserve Bank governor Adrian Orr – who is of Cook Island Māori descent – is doing his best to honour the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
He says Mr Orr, who has Cook Islands Maori whakapapa, thinks Treaty principles are important.
“I think he’s trying to find ways for the Reserve Bank to live up to its tiriti obligations more. But, if we didn’t have Adrian – let’s face it, with the current government we’ve got, it can be easy to see even the small amount of progress we’ve made in having Maori input into things like the cash rate, the budget-setting, disappear,” Professor Roskruge says.....
waateanews.com/2024/08/16/treaty-principles-under-surface-in-bank-view/
David Seymour’s Treaty Principles Bill is unfair, discriminatory and needs to be abandoned, a scathing Waitangi Tribunal report has found.
The Waitangi Tribunal described the bill “as a solution to a problem that does not exist”.
“Despite the constitutional significance of defining the Treaty principles in legislation and the importance of this to Māori, the Crown agreed to pursue the policy without any engagement or discussion with Māori.
“Māori did not want this policy and in fact many have been strongly opposed to it from the beginning.”....
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/unfair-discriminatory-waitangi-tribunal-released-scathing-report-on-treaty-principles-bill/J5J62VLZUFFXHC4N3ZB6R7CDOQ/
DAVID SEYMOUR WELCOMES CRITICAL WAITANGI TRIBUNAL REPORT
ACT leader David Seymour - the architect of the government's proposed Treaty Principles Bill - has welcomed a Waitangi Tribunal report, despite it recommending the idea be abandoned.
Waitangi Tribunal chair Caren Fox said the bill and a proposed review of Treaty clauses - put forward by New Zealand First - were part of a pattern of the Crown using Parliament's policy process against Māori.
However, Seymour saw the report as a contribution to the national conversation he had long been calling for.
"We need a national conversation about our founding document. Are there two classes of New Zealanders in partnership, each with different rights? Or are we a modern democracy where all citizens have equal rights?"
Seymour said he looked forward to having that discussion over the next several months....
www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/525346/david-seymour-welcomes-critical-waitangi-tribunal-report
TREATY PRINCIPLES UNDER SURFACE IN BANK VIEW
A Māori economist believes Reserve Bank governor Adrian Orr – who is of Cook Island Māori descent – is doing his best to honour the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
He says Mr Orr, who has Cook Islands Maori whakapapa, thinks Treaty principles are important.
“I think he’s trying to find ways for the Reserve Bank to live up to its tiriti obligations more. But, if we didn’t have Adrian – let’s face it, with the current government we’ve got, it can be easy to see even the small amount of progress we’ve made in having Maori input into things like the cash rate, the budget-setting, disappear,” Professor Roskruge says.....
waateanews.com/2024/08/16/treaty-principles-under-surface-in-bank-view/