Left-wing blogger Martyn Bradbury, activist and artist Tame Iti, historian Anne Salmond and lawyers Stephen Franks, Andrew Geddes and Andrew Judd are among the chosen ones.
Along with some former members of Parliament (whose party links would have stood in their favour).
Outfits like the Professional Historians’ Association of New Zealand Aotearoa, the New Zealand History Teachers’ Association and the New Zealand Law Society Te Kahui Ture o Aotearoa are there too.
And the National Iwi Chairs Forum (imagine the fuss if they had not made the cut!).
Oh – and for some curious reason the list includes the Coalition for the Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Canada). Perhaps they might help explain the application of the word “indigenous” to people who got to New Zealand just a few hundred years or so before the Europeans (who are labelled “colonisers”).
They are on the list which RNZ has published in a report that says:
The Justice Committee has named 367 people to present oral submissions on the Treaty Principles Bill, with a further 112 spots reserved for randomly selected submitters.
In a statement on Friday, the committee said the list of names has been nominated by each political party, and it has sought to take a balanced approach.
The names include many iwi and hapū groupings, unions, lawyers, and a range of individuals including well known and lesser-known people.
Ex-politicians including former Prime Minister Dame Jenny Shipley and former Finance Minister Ruth Richardson are included.
More names will be selected to fill gaps if others cancelled their appearance, could not be contacted, or were unable to be scheduled due to limited availability.
A list of 479 people is on the large side, when you think about the workload for the committee which must listen to them.
But it’s a little list – minute, actually – when you consider the number of submissions totalled more than 300,000.
The committee says it has published the list to inform the public about its work, “and to give clarity to submitters who have contacted the committee asking if they will be invited to make an oral submission”.
It says:
We appreciate that some submitters will be disappointed not to have the opportunity to speak to the committee. The committee has sought to take a balanced approach to its hearings by allowing each political party to influence how the 80 hours of hearing time is used.
If you have not been selected to be invited, we thank you for your understanding and for taking the time to make a written submission.
The list of submitters for each hearing will be published on the Submitters List page on the Parliament website in the days leading up to hearings.
Live-streamed official coverage of the hearings will be available on the Parliament website here.
On-demand official coverage is made available within one to two days of the hearing and can be found on the committee’s Vimeo page here.
On Monday, 10 February, the committee intends to publish the submissions of those submitters who have been invited to make oral submissions.
The list is arranged in alphabetical order. The order that submitters will be scheduled and heard will depend on their availability and the practical arrangement of hearings.
The committee heard from some of the named submitters yesterday over more than four hours.
The next sitting is for two hours next Thursday 13 February.
Were you among the many who must have missed out?
And where can we find a list of discards, rejects and also-rans?
The full list of those who have been chosen to have their say is at the end of the RNZ report HERE.
Bob Edlin is a veteran journalist and editor for the Point of Order blog HERE. - where this article was sourced.
Outfits like the Professional Historians’ Association of New Zealand Aotearoa, the New Zealand History Teachers’ Association and the New Zealand Law Society Te Kahui Ture o Aotearoa are there too.
And the National Iwi Chairs Forum (imagine the fuss if they had not made the cut!).
Oh – and for some curious reason the list includes the Coalition for the Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Canada). Perhaps they might help explain the application of the word “indigenous” to people who got to New Zealand just a few hundred years or so before the Europeans (who are labelled “colonisers”).
They are on the list which RNZ has published in a report that says:
The Justice Committee has named 367 people to present oral submissions on the Treaty Principles Bill, with a further 112 spots reserved for randomly selected submitters.
In a statement on Friday, the committee said the list of names has been nominated by each political party, and it has sought to take a balanced approach.
The names include many iwi and hapū groupings, unions, lawyers, and a range of individuals including well known and lesser-known people.
Ex-politicians including former Prime Minister Dame Jenny Shipley and former Finance Minister Ruth Richardson are included.
More names will be selected to fill gaps if others cancelled their appearance, could not be contacted, or were unable to be scheduled due to limited availability.
A list of 479 people is on the large side, when you think about the workload for the committee which must listen to them.
But it’s a little list – minute, actually – when you consider the number of submissions totalled more than 300,000.
The committee says it has published the list to inform the public about its work, “and to give clarity to submitters who have contacted the committee asking if they will be invited to make an oral submission”.
It says:
We appreciate that some submitters will be disappointed not to have the opportunity to speak to the committee. The committee has sought to take a balanced approach to its hearings by allowing each political party to influence how the 80 hours of hearing time is used.
If you have not been selected to be invited, we thank you for your understanding and for taking the time to make a written submission.
The list of submitters for each hearing will be published on the Submitters List page on the Parliament website in the days leading up to hearings.
Live-streamed official coverage of the hearings will be available on the Parliament website here.
On-demand official coverage is made available within one to two days of the hearing and can be found on the committee’s Vimeo page here.
On Monday, 10 February, the committee intends to publish the submissions of those submitters who have been invited to make oral submissions.
The list is arranged in alphabetical order. The order that submitters will be scheduled and heard will depend on their availability and the practical arrangement of hearings.
The committee heard from some of the named submitters yesterday over more than four hours.
The next sitting is for two hours next Thursday 13 February.
Were you among the many who must have missed out?
And where can we find a list of discards, rejects and also-rans?
The full list of those who have been chosen to have their say is at the end of the RNZ report HERE.
Bob Edlin is a veteran journalist and editor for the Point of Order blog HERE. - where this article was sourced.
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