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Showing posts with label Treaty principles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Treaty principles. Show all posts
Friday, May 22, 2026

David Farrar: Winding back Treaty references

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Paul Goldsmith announced : The Government has agreed to amend 19 pieces of legislation to ensure references to the principles of the Treaty ...
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Wednesday, February 4, 2026

Roger Partridge: Climate Clinic Aotearoa v Minister of Energy and Resources.....

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The anatomy of usurpation: Climate Clinic Aotearoa v Minister of Energy and Resources Imagine Parliament passes a Schools Act “to promote th...
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Tuesday, January 13, 2026

Peter Bassett: Effecting Treaty principles into immigration: When Footnotes Decide the Verdict

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Modern activist legal writing has a sound of its own: the rustle of footnotes doing work they were never meant to do. Elizabeth Rabiyan’s es...
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Sunday, December 21, 2025

Geoff Parker: Wai 1040 Isn’t History - It’s Politics Backdated

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The Waitangi Tribunal’s Wai 1040 inquiry is presented as a long-overdue correction to New Zealand’s constitutional history. Its central cla...
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Friday, December 19, 2025

Bob Edlin: Treaty principles, unelected Māori with voting rights and a letter of resignation....

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Treaty principles, unelected Māori with voting rights and a letter of resignation – what would Mandela make of this? PoO was somewhat bemus...
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Saturday, November 29, 2025

Jenny Ruth: Open letter to Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith

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Minister of Justice P.Goldsmith@ministers.govt.nz OPEN LETTER Dear Mr Goldsmith I’m writing to complain about my treatment, and the treatmen...
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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”....

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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 V...
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Sunday, October 5, 2025

Judy Gill: Teaching Children to Think — or Teaching Them What to Think?

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New Zealand: Indoctrination in the Classroom From early childhood onwards, New Zealand children are not being taught to question. They are b...
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Saturday, September 27, 2025

Centrist: Draft code tells councils to share power with iwi

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“Open to working with mana whenua partners in the design and delivery of their work programmes.” A new draft Code of Conduct would require ...
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Sunday, September 21, 2025

John McLean: Aoteainertia

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New Zealand is not in the swim. It’s swimmy, barely able to tread water. The Second Law of Thermodynamics has cuckooed the once-plucky and p...
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Wednesday, July 2, 2025

JC: Where Are the Principles in the Treaty?

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It’s a good question because the answer is, as Winston Peters says, there aren’t any. There are only articles. Three of them. Principles hav...
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Monday, June 9, 2025

Insights From Social Media

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Brian Kennedy writes > WHY a karakia to open a new highway ? WHY Stone Age Maori myth, beliefs, customs and voodoo witchcraft ? WHY not...
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Thursday, May 29, 2025

Dr Michael Bassett: Te Partly Maori vs Commensense

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These days, when reading statements from Te Partly Maori it’s often hard to trust one’s eyesight. A few days ago, Hana-Rawhiti Maipi Clarke ...
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Friday, December 20, 2024

Natasha Hamilton-Hart: Design principles for constitutional hijack......

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Design principles for constitutional hijack – or how we got those Treaty principles in the first place The ‘principles of the Treaty of Wait...
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Sunday, November 24, 2024

Professor Robert MacCulloch: Mr Prime Minister: Lead, Goddammit.....

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Mr Prime Minister: Lead, Goddammit. Address the Nation in this time of Crisis. Tell us: Are there Treaty Principles? If so, are they part of...
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Thursday, November 21, 2024

Professor Robert MacCulloch: Dame Whina Cooper's hīkoi was for change.....

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Dame Whina Cooper's hīkoi was for change. This week's hīkoi was for keeping the status quo, the opposite of what the NZ Herald claim...
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Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Dr Michael John Schmidt: Māori privilege and media paradox.

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It’s ironic that TV1, RNZ, and similar media outlets so strongly support the current hīkoi process opposing David Seymour’s call for a discu...
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Thursday, September 5, 2024

Aaron Spencer: The problem with Principles

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“All this turmoil, because of a single word?” This may be the bemused reaction of some future scholar engaged in reviewing the course of New...
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Saturday, August 24, 2024

Gary Judd KC: Treaty is a bald agreement, anchored in its time and place

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What [democratic government] cannot do is acknowledge the existence of a separate sovereignty. As soon as it does that, it isn’t a democracy...
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Thursday, August 22, 2024

Gary Judd: Where Are the Treaty Principles Written Down?

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Gary Judd KC clarifies the situation around the ‘treaty principles’ to Sean Plunket on The Platform - a must listen video Click to view vid...
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