Plans to gut the Office for Māori Crown Relations by 40% is an extraordinary move focused on one thing and one thing only, limiting independent Māori advice so this Government doesn’t have to hear it.
The proposal has been decried by the PSA Union and they point out that this will limit the very foresight that Te Arawhiti was supposed to have avoided. It was supposed to be a one stop shop set up to speed up Treaty settlements, but splitting functions between Te Puni Kōkiri and Te Arawhiti will actually undermine the whole reason Te Arawhiti was established.
Te Kaihautū Māori for Te Pūkenga Here Tikanga Mahi Public Service Association, Janice Panoho, said, “The government promised to listen to the evidence, but again it’s ignoring the advice of those working at the heart of Māori Crown relations.”
There’s a reason for that, this Government doesn’t want to be forced to heed that independent advice because they have very little intention of implementing any of it. We have already seen Ministers openly colluding with Seafood Industry Interests to limit customary Māori kaimoana rights in the new rejigged Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Act, so underfunding and cutting Te Arawhiti’s capacity to challenge poorly crafted Government policy is a political choice not a genuine necessity.
It’s just another example of this Government’s anti-Treaty, anti-Māori agenda to silence critical voices to implement donor wish lists.
We need more capacity at Te Arawhiti, not less.
You think its bad now .Wait till they get more emboldened now the filth is taking over the USA .Luxon already thinks he is Trump so the female and brown people need to be prepared for in coming fire .We wont deport imagrants though because unlike the USA we know we can exploit them to the max while making kiwis unemployed .
You have hit the nail on the head
Gordon – RIGHT ON POINT !!!!
The shit is about to hit the fan and we will get burnt.
” Gutting the Office for Māori Crown Relations just another attack on Māori. ”
Well yes but specifically with regard to the Treaty. Once the Treaty goes than all else is greed = chaos and genocide.
Once the moron class lets the Treaty slip through their dick strangling little pink fingers the Crown will soon follow once the idea of the Republic of Nu Zillind is hatched and on-sold then we’re all fucked.
The one thing that transcends feeble politiking is the fucking climate. Look…? We’re fucked. The climate is in its death throws which makes all and any politics look like an itch that just needed scratching.
Sleazemore and his dancing monkey troupe are very-very, slowly-slowly, catchy-catchy monkey-ing us.
If the little traitor can wrest the Treaty away from Maori then the Crown says fuck you then, you’re on your own it’ll be a neo-liberal fait accompli and then we’re all fucking done for.
40 % is not enough!