Christopher Luxon: Waitangi speech (2024)

Thank you Ngā Puhi, Te Tai Tokerau iwi and the Waitangi National Trust for once again hosting these ceremonies commemorating the signing of Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

Waitangi Day is an opportunity to pause and reflect on the foundations of our nation – our history – and to look forward. So, thank you for prompting us in this forum to answer two questions: 1) Where do we want to be as a nation by 2040? And 2) What do we need to focus on in the next three years to get there? Both are good and timely questions.

Now, no journey begins fresh out of nowhere.

Point of Order: Buzz from the Beehive - 5/2/24

Luxon calls for a constructive debate of differences – but his Waitangi audience had jeered his coalition colleagues

Two Māori ministers announced plans to visit Tonga, Cook Islands and Samoa this week, two non-Māori ministers announced scholarships to six university students, and the PM delivered a speech at Waitangi where hostility to his government’s Treaty policies was mounting.