The decision by Treaty Negotiations Minister Paul Goldsmith to refuse signing the East Coast iwi Te Whānau-ā-Apanu settlement because of an agree to disagree clause on ceding sovereignty is petty politics by the Government.
So afraid of the anti-Treaty and anti-Māori rhetoric that National, ACT and NZF have used to inflame their reactionary voting base, the Government fear agreeing to the clause will open them to criticism from the very voters they have rarked up.
Andrew Little, the Minister who inserted the clause when he was negotiating the settlement points out that removing the clause wasn’t actually required, “It’s disappointing because it is unnecessary. The Treaty settlement process is about getting the relationships back on foot and no one loses anything by including the agree-to-disagree clause the minister wants to remove.
Exactly.
No one is arguing that the Crown isn’t sovereign, (which is Minister Goldsmith’s justification for not signing), what the settlement is saying is that Ngāpuhi didn’t cede sovereignty.
Including the clause to agree to disagree recognises this difference without having to define it.
The settlement could be signed, but the Government fears acknowledging this will generate a backlash amongst the most reactionary voter their rhetoric has generated.
Once again, Māori have to wait for a settlement from the Crown that is acceptable to the worst prejudices of those who have benefited from colonialism and breaching the Treaty.
Such political games are beneath the mana of those who have sought redress.
The bottom line is the racist coalition does not want to give them a cent .End of story .
The bottom line is the “racist” crown has been making repeated “full and final” settlements with iwi for 40-odd years.
There is no intention of reaching a full and final settlement by the Maori negotiators, it’s a too lucrative business to do so.
Making shit up again PP2! Each Iwi is independent of one another there is no repeated Full & final settlement that the honky version repeated incessantly by bigots such as yourself
Ngi Tahu are doing very well out of their settlement and every so often they try for a top up even though it was supposed to be a full and final figure each time but good luck to them if they succeed.
More incoherent nonsense from the “Toitu Te Tiriti” brigade. Iwi negotiate treaty settlements with the Crown. And who wears the crown? The sovereign.
Are you talking about the 50 thousand people that marched on parliament pompous pope not exactly a brigade
100,000 Covid Pa get the numbers rights there’s always an unconscious bias to marginalize Maori issue even Maori do it
Time to deport Goldsmith.
Shouldn’t you be calling for his beheading?
Nice, Ada
go and play with some depleted uranium shells in a children’s playground
They (respect claimants) should just tell them to stick their settlement up their asshole full stop. And who are these settlements really benefitting??? Not the poor Maori struggling to put a roof over their head! The Westminster system already provides a lot of poor Maori with accommodation and food it’s called the Correction Department. Maori are beggars in their own country and seem to be going nowhere with this Westminster system from both political parties and a white dominated society and its going to get worse before its going anywhere near to getting better
Free Aotearoa
It is about time some people excepted that pakeha are here and are not going away so instead of fighting for a past that was not that great for some eg the slaves and the eaten ones use your skills to progress in the here and now.
you need to study up a bit bro .As we see right here and now the moves to squash Maori continue .Hell we are even trying to prevent them from enrolling to vote because they might not vote for the COC .
They are using their skills .The biggest part of growth in the NZ is the Maori economy which is now 25% of GDP hence why your masters are doing their best to rub them out .Pakeha know that Maori will never let the big corporates take any thing they own so ACT have been funded to undermine anything Maori in government .But they will overcome and continue to march foward .
You know full well Tipene that it’s the maori elite who gain, who line there own nest, the grass roots maori never see much (if any) of the settlement money.
Also….would you prefer to go back to tribalism, the bigger tribes wiping out/assimilate/eat the smaller tribes?
I would be for that too to be honest, but I think the UN and Human Rights brigades would have some big objections…you know, the same objections the saviours had when they arrived and put a stop to the savage stone age inhabitants.
Maori have never had it so good.
Say a pakepakeha that doesn’t recognize his own white privileges even if it kicked him in the ball sacs. Remember pakeha loved human flesh they were consuming it before Maori were even a distinguish people.
Is that you david stop hiding behind a false name you weak racist prick
was it the romans, the danes, the angles, the saxons or the normans? – jeez – the khans nearly got to go through your lot as well.
im right is that all you have the same old dribble of divide and conquer and who is benefitting mostly from the current COC policies mostly the white elite and foreigners.
Are you talking about the 50 thousand people that marched on parliament pompous pope not exactly a brigade
The so called bigger tribe ,PAKEHA is continuing the tribalisim by continuing to kick and eat everything Maori .NZ has not improved over the last 200 years has it .
From the Stone Age and cannibalism to a civilised society a quantum leap I would say.
If the crown isn’t sovereign they have no right to agree to settlements
But if Maori are sovereign then they the crown still have no right to settle
Logic doesn’t seem to be the strong point of the iwi negotiators
Maori are the beneficiaries of colonisation.