Treaty Principals Bill

[Lilith7]

How exactly did Labour 'rewrite the treaty?'

Im going round in circles, Jeffery Palmer added the principals in 1989, look it up. Thats all Act want to do is to remove them because they were never there to begin with.

Well to be fair the Treaty has been redefined by politicians , beauracrats and Iwi many times over the last 170plus years.

Damn right it has!

https://teara.govt.nz/en/principles-of-t...ngi/page-5

"In 1989 the fourth Labour government became the first New Zealand government to set out principles to guide its actions on matters relating to the treaty.

These principles were:

• The government has the right to govern and make laws.
  
• Iwi have the right to organise as iwi, and, under the law, to control their resources as their own.
  
• All New Zealanders are equal before the law.
  

Both the government and iwi are obliged to accord each other reasonable cooperation on major issues of common concern.
[*]The government is responsible for providing effective processes for the resolution of grievances in the expectation that reconciliation can occur.
No later government had defined any new treaty principles, although some (like the National government in 1991) have reflected on the 1989 principles.


In 2006 the New Zealand First party introduced the Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Deletion Bill. The bill sought ‘to correct an anomaly that has harmed race relations in New Zealand since 1986 when the vague term “the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi” was included in legislation.’ This bill was defeated and references to treaty principles remain in New Zealand law. The Waitangi Tribunal and the courts continue to define the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi.

On the other hand, some people believe that the idea of treaty principles does not go far enough and is an obstacle to Māori exercising tino rangatiratanga in a meaningful way."