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Monday, November 3, 2025

Bob Edlin: High Court ruling in quarry case calls for consenting panels to apply “a Treaty lens”....


High Court ruling in quarry case calls for consenting panels to apply “a Treaty lens” and be careful to consider iwi CAARs

On the Breaking Views blog today, Steven Gaskell draws attention to the Waitangi Tribunal’s decision that the Government’s review of Treaty clauses in 23 laws is a breach of the Treaty itself.

According to Gaskell, the tribunal is saying nobody may tamper with “the sacred text” – or rather, “the sacred principles of a text that never actually mentioned any principles in the first place”.