Mike Butler: A Giant Treaty Rort?

Does Treaty of Waitangi policy amount to a rort that has grown beyond the wildest dreams of those who set it up and is now too large and too deeply embedded for any government to dismantle?

That is the question that emerged from spending a couple of months updating the treaty settlement financial redress total at Treaty Transparency 1975-2026 HERE 

 
The word “rort” describes a scheme that takes unfair advantage of a public service, loophole, or resource.

David Farrar: ACT’s Waitangi Tribunal policy

ACT have released their policy on abolishing the Waitangi Tribunal once it has concluded the historical Treaty claims, and remove its jurisdiction. over contemporary issues.

Richard Prebble: Abolish the Tribunal, Preserve the Treaty

ACT will complete the historical Treaty claims filed before 1 September 2008, end the Waitangi Tribunal’s contemporary jurisdiction, and wind it up once its historical work is finished, announced ACT Leader David Seymour.

I was a member of the Lange Government that extended the Tribunal’s jurisdiction back to 1840. Despite the difficulties that decision created, on balance I think it was the right decision.

We should be proud that New Zealand was founded not by conquest, but by treaty.

Dr Michael Bassett: Why are the loud mouths frightened about the principles of the treaty?

It’s amazing to see the energy being invested in attacks on David Seymour and ACT over the proposed bill, that no one has yet seen, on the Principles of the Treaty. Four hundred religious leaders, Radio NZ, TV, the New Zealand Herald’s Julia Gabel, the newly unhinged Matthew Hooton, the Labour Party that should know better, the seriously weird Greens, and the unintelligible Maori Party are all piling on to Seymour with arguments that vary between the specious and the absurd. It’s for a reason.

Point of Order: Buzz from the Beehive - 8/4/24

There’s gold – or rather, energy without carbon – in that rock, but Jones reminds us of the Treaty and an ownership issue

Oh, dear. One News tells us an ownership spat is brewing between Māori and the Crown as New Zealand uses more renewable energy sources.

No, not water or the shoreline. Ownership of another resource has come into the reckoning.

Garrick Tremain: Leadership

 Here is Garrick Tremain's cartoon commentary on treaty claims! 

Garrick Tremain: Claims

Here is Garrick Tremain's latest cartoon commentary - from the Archives!

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