While we should celebrate the amazing win of shutting down the Treaty Principles Referendum, we would be fools if we didn’t appreciate the enormity of this Government’s anti-Māori and anti-Treaty Agenda.
It wasn’t just the deeply problematic Treaty Principles Referendum we needed to be concerned with, it’s a range of policies that could be equally devastating with a greater chance of passing.
- Treaty Clause Review – This is a review of every law that includes Treaty provision clauses with the intention of removing them!
- Limiting Waitangi Tribunal – This is an attempt to limit the Waitangi Tribunal to focus on past abuses of the Treaty so they can’t comment on ongoing breaches of the Treaty.
- Marine and Coastal Areas Act – Ministers Shane Jones and Paul Goldsmith are already on record assuring Industry that Māori customary fishing rights won’t impact their ability to make a profit.
This Government gained power by playing to Pakeha ignorance and using Māori as a political punching bag, the Treaty Principles Referendum was just the start of that process, and we can not allow that win to eclipse the fact this Government intends to keep eroding the Treaty at all costs.
Sounds like a good start!
So what have maori got that you cant have other than poverty which is a given for maori .
This is just another waste of money project that this CoC is implementing like its TPB failure will cost the taxpayer tens of millions to implement. Its policies is a reflection of “Project 2025” right-wing conservative policy that the Trump administration is enact with devastating results that already been felt especially among migrants, LGBTQ, Law, Public Health, Energy, Education, Immigration, Employment, Border Security, Military, Economy, etc…. This is not just an American agenda as many conservative right-wing govts across the globe are following this style of governance which should read alarm bells.
https://www.project2025.org/policy/
‘this Government intends to keep eroding the Treaty at all costs.’
A very good reason for ratifying the Treaty, formally making it law, and thus making it permanent( or as permanent as anything can be in this time of bizarre events).
This is something that has to be done.
Unfortunately while PM Luxon is in charger I do not think it will achieve anywhere near what was voted for in October 2023.
The Treaty Principles Bill going to referendum would have been a far better way of doing things.
F all people voted for a referendum so why the hell was one needed?
Nothing was “voted for in October 2023”, only mindlessly against.
The people have spoken more than 300,000 were against the TPB if you were wanting your say than the democratic process was available by submission and you could of held a march to parliament rivaling the hikoi march of more than 100,000+ last year
The treaty principal bill was but one bill. Does this mean we must have a referendum on every bill drawn? What differentiates this bill above all others?
Amazing how pakeha think that Maori are getting something that they are not .Any one I ask has failed to tell me what Maori are getting that other races are not getting .Then we had the lie that Maori were stealing the water when in fact it is pakeha aided by imigrants that are stealing the water .Watch the auckland watercare space which will then be followed by wellington both of which will be sold off within 10 years as they go bankrupt and cant fund the money they need to borrow .
So you want the rest of their land too .
They will sell it GW, $$$’s means more than mana!
The government should not have the right to alter New Zealands identity. The Treaty doesn’t provide any new knowledge it simply establishes our identity ie Maori is the indigenous culture of New Zealand and the treaty gives the crown the right to form a government. That’s it. The idea that somehow by deleting bits that pakeha don’t like will somehow cause the greatest economic boom since Muldoon is insane economics don’t work like that.
So true Sam
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