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Thursday, August 17, 2023

Peter Hemmingson: Waitangi Tribunal


Waitangi Tribunal Reports are widely believed to issue only after rigorous historical investigation of Treaty claims.

In other words, you can take them to the bank.

The Tribunal’s findings then reach the wider public via media reports, make their way onto Government websites, and percolate throughout our education system as authoritative, objective accounts of the events to which they refer.

What if Tribunal Reports were in fact one-eyed rewrites of New Zealand history and not worth the paper they are printed on?