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Submission on Treaty Principles Bill – January 2025
Below is the Laidlaw College submission on the Bill, prepared by myself, Bradford Haami and Roshan Allpress. (Can be downloaded below.)
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Commentary on Waitangi Tribunal urgent report on Treaty Principles Bill
I gave an interview on Newstalk ZB on Friday 16 August 2024 about the Waitangi Tribunal’s report, released at midday, on the proposed Coalition Govt’s Treaty Principles Bill. The report is around 200 pages, and it contains some great summaries of existing treaty principles frameworks and a fair, even-handed examination of the implications of such…
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Do we need the English text of the treaty too?
An imagined conversation: Yes, we need the English text, because the Māori text came from the English text… Hang on, the English text says Māori ceded sovereignty – but they didn’t! This confuses people visiting Te Papa museum. They didn’t cede their hapū rangatiratanga, yes, but they ceded to the Crown the kāwanantanga (government) of…
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Samuel D Carpenter 