Bob Edlin: Yes, the Dunedin City Council CEO has the power of censorship, but questions remain around talk of a Treaty Partnership

Recent happenings in Dunedin illustrate the extent to which “the Treaty partnership” has become a facile concoction of local and central government and is applied to justify whatever politicians or administrators want to justify when dealing with Maori rights and privileges.

In this case it has been applied to justify censorship and to inhibit an elected community representative’s attempt to foster discussion of the proposition that when te reo is spoken at public gatherings, a translation should be provided to enable the great majority of the country’s population who don’t speak that language to comprehend what was said.

NZCPR Weekly: Race-Based Democracy Opposed

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This week we look into the misrepresentations being used to drive a campaign to remove direct democracy petition rights from local government electoral law, our NZCPR Guest Commentator Michael Coote exposes the underlying agenda of Local Government New Zealand, and our poll asks whether you believe direct democracy petition rights in the Local Electoral Act should be retained.

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