TREVOR MALLARD, SPEECH 2004 (excerpts) – How things have cha
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TREVOR MALLARD, SPEECH 2004 (excerpts) – How things have changed!
New Zealand also has to get its British imperial past behind it. Maori and Pakeha are both indigenous people to New Zealand now....
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First, despite the Treaty having no formal legal status, it has been accorded a kind of constitutional status because it gave legitimacy to the British Crown in New Zealand....
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There is a myth that the Treaty gave Maori extra rights over and above those of other New Zealanders.
Article III makes it clear that Maori were to have the same rights as other British subjects, the same rights as the settlers. Article III was an explicit equaliser and a promise that Maori were not to have race-based legislation passed against them.
Maori have no extra rights or privileges under the Treaty or in the policy of the New Zealand government....
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Full speech here > www.beehive.govt.nz/speech/we-are-all-new-zealanders-now
New Zealand also has to get its British imperial past behind it. Maori and Pakeha are both indigenous people to New Zealand now....
***************
First, despite the Treaty having no formal legal status, it has been accorded a kind of constitutional status because it gave legitimacy to the British Crown in New Zealand....
***************
There is a myth that the Treaty gave Maori extra rights over and above those of other New Zealanders.
Article III makes it clear that Maori were to have the same rights as other British subjects, the same rights as the settlers. Article III was an explicit equaliser and a promise that Maori were not to have race-based legislation passed against them.
Maori have no extra rights or privileges under the Treaty or in the policy of the New Zealand government....
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Full speech here > www.beehive.govt.nz/speech/we-are-all-new-zealanders-now