How many times have you heard me ask the Prime Minister on a Monday, when is the Waitangi Tribunal decision being made? What is Potaka doing with this activist tribunal?
Well, on Friday we got the answer.
He is going to have a review.
I thought that's what he was already doing. That’s why I thought we had been waiting so long.
The impatience I was showing in asking the Prime Minister is not "when is he announcing a review"? It's, when is the Government snipping the wings of taxpayer-funded activists that have lived well past their use by date?
The tribunal was set up 50 years ago to settle historic grievances. To a large extent, they have done that.
The fact some remain outstanding is an indictment on the people who haven't settled and various Governments who have refused to put deadlines in place.
But the majority of the intent of the tribunal is over.
Having ticked that box, they saw a future in a lot more money and work offering increasingly radical views for anyone who was bored and angry and wanted to take a case, so they could get a judgement to beat the Government of the day over the head with.
This current Government, perceived by the aggrieved as a particularly nasty lot, have kept the tribunal flat out filing complaints and receiving damning reports. None of it means anything because the tribunal has no real legal standing.
None of this is complex. Yet Potaka has been sitting there doing Lord-knows-what, to finally muster up a press release on a Friday to tell us at long, long, long, last we'll get a couple of people to wander off for a few months and come back with an opinion the Government wants, so they can do what they should have done all along - call a halt to the circus.
Once again we remind you - no small amount of the support that got this Government to power was predicated on the idea that enough was enough on the Maori overreach front.
Delivery has been painfully slow.
Potaka has been dragging the chain.
Is it possible part of the reason this Government has failed to fire more, is simply because their talk was a lot more attractive than their action?
Mike Hosking is a New Zealand television and radio broadcaster. He currently hosts The Mike Hosking Breakfast show on NewstalkZB on weekday mornings - where this article was sourced.
I thought that's what he was already doing. That’s why I thought we had been waiting so long.
The impatience I was showing in asking the Prime Minister is not "when is he announcing a review"? It's, when is the Government snipping the wings of taxpayer-funded activists that have lived well past their use by date?
The tribunal was set up 50 years ago to settle historic grievances. To a large extent, they have done that.
The fact some remain outstanding is an indictment on the people who haven't settled and various Governments who have refused to put deadlines in place.
But the majority of the intent of the tribunal is over.
Having ticked that box, they saw a future in a lot more money and work offering increasingly radical views for anyone who was bored and angry and wanted to take a case, so they could get a judgement to beat the Government of the day over the head with.
This current Government, perceived by the aggrieved as a particularly nasty lot, have kept the tribunal flat out filing complaints and receiving damning reports. None of it means anything because the tribunal has no real legal standing.
None of this is complex. Yet Potaka has been sitting there doing Lord-knows-what, to finally muster up a press release on a Friday to tell us at long, long, long, last we'll get a couple of people to wander off for a few months and come back with an opinion the Government wants, so they can do what they should have done all along - call a halt to the circus.
Once again we remind you - no small amount of the support that got this Government to power was predicated on the idea that enough was enough on the Maori overreach front.
Delivery has been painfully slow.
Potaka has been dragging the chain.
Is it possible part of the reason this Government has failed to fire more, is simply because their talk was a lot more attractive than their action?
Mike Hosking is a New Zealand television and radio broadcaster. He currently hosts The Mike Hosking Breakfast show on NewstalkZB on weekday mornings - where this article was sourced.
8 comments:
I don't see much changing with the make up of the review committee.
Rosalie Ashby
Full agreement - New Zealand’s march to the tune of Co -Governance is not in all NewZealanders’ interests.
Nationals lack of focus on resolving any issues maori related is certainly a disgrace. The media will have an important job asking the hard questions as we approach the next election. I certainly feel very let down by National, they will not get my vote next time!!!
Oh Mike just relax, I can pretty much tell you that the $5mill of tax payers money enquiry, with 4 maori judges will turn up, exactly, ......nothing. The judges ( you gotta have maoris on it else it racist) will be granted more special powers, and in turn will give waitangi tribunal even greater powers.
One can only hope that something actually happens to these racists this time, else save the taxpayers money.
Why can't we actually have an independent committee ( ie no maoris, no far lefties) from overseas will no affiliated ties to nz so we actually get an honest report that has to be released to the public for all to see.
The left will block my suggestion at all costs, . I wonder why.
The timing is a ploy to get the Iwi/ Maori vote. Rather than curtaining the WT, there is concern this might open a new era - to propose more power and even veto over Parliament's legislation ? Would Potaka dare to do this?
Under any review commissioned by the Uniparty you can bet your bottom dollar that the recommendations will be for bigger, better and vastly more expensive continuing ‘reparations’. And guess who will have to pay for that.
No doubt the final review report has already been written recommending Waitangi Tribunal business as usual.
What misplaced trust and faith in this cabal of hopeless apologists for the once perfectly acceptable actions of my forebears.
Even if National was so inclined, it would be very difficult ,to find anyone, even a few independent long retired old men, to risk the cancellation and physical threat to serve on a panel and recommend wind down of WT activity. To serve at all is a very real risk for anyone unless blatantly pro maori. So I guess the hunt was a protracted one,; with the outcome entirely predictable.
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