WAATEA NEWS COLUMN – Elite Class behind Treaty amputation in legislation
The Treaty rewrite agenda is too sweeping, too coordinated and too well-funded to simply be dismissed as populist politics.
Te Tiriti o Waitangi
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Labour Pledges to Restore Te Tiriti in Schools
Labour says Te Tiriti belongs in classrooms and is pledging to reverse what it calls the Government’s attacks on Māori education.
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Economy is melting down and all Government has is anti-Trans, anti-Māori, anti-migrants and anti-public service toxic culture war garbage – at some stage you must get angry
As the economy weakens and public sector cuts deepen, critics say the Government is fuelling culture wars instead of confronting inequality and corporate power.
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Stanford’s Magic Trick: Treaty of Waitangi in Education, gone
The argument was that Treaty obligations would move to the Crown. Critics say the latest education reforms prove they were simply removed.
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Erica Stanford’s Education Power Grab Explained
What children learn, how teachers are judged and who controls the profession could soon sit directly under ministerial authority.
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Greens Attack Rushed Disability Support Changes
Disabled communities say they were shut out again as the Government rushed through sweeping disability support law changes.
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Treaty Principles Referendum by stealth
The Government is accused of quietly stripping Treaty protections from legislation after New Zealanders overwhelmingly rejected the Treaty Principles Bill.
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Greens Warn Treaty Principles Bill Is Back
The Government may have lost the public fight over the Treaty Principles Bill, but critics say it’s now dismantling te Tiriti protections quietly through changes buried across legislation.
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Greens Demand Luxon Halt Education Reforms
The Waitangi Tribunal has delivered a brutal warning over the Government’s education reforms, and the Greens say Luxon can no longer hide the ideological agenda underneath them.
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Labour Warns Māori-Crown Relations Are Collapsing
Labour says the Coalition Government’s approach to te Tiriti and education reform is driving Māori-Crown relations into dangerous territory. With tamariki Māori paying the price.
