Ani O'Brien: New Zealand is being pulled in two different directions

Yesterday, the Waitangi Tribunal’s Strategic Direction Review Group quietly posted their report on the Waitangi Tribunal website.1 The group had been tasked with completing “a thorough assessment of how the Waitangi Tribunal was implementing its strategic goals” in accordance with the Strategic Direction 2014-2025 (amended in 2020).

This was the document that, now famously, precipitated the swift resignation from the Waitangi Tribunal of former Labour Minister and Act Party Leader Richard Prebble.