ClareBear 💚 May 15
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/595333/waitangi-tribunal-calls-for-immediate-halt-to-changes-to-education-legislation-affecting-treaty
"It is as bad as the Treaty Principles Bill in its attempt to erase the Crown's duty to comply with the agreement made between Māori and the Crown in 1840. It may even be worse, because the Treaty Principles Bill in theory was never going to be enacted. #nzpol #ToitūTeTiriti #WaitangiTribunal
Waitangi Tribunal calls for immediate halt to changes to education legislation affecting Treaty

It says the changes are as bad as the Treaty Principles Bill in its attempt to erase the Crown's duties.

RNZ
Matthew RimmerOct 20, 2025

New Book - 50 Years of The Waitangi Tribunal – Whakamana i Te Tiriti

Carwyn Jones, Maria Bargh

https://huia.co.nz/products/50-years-of-the-waitangi-tribunal

#NZpol #NZLaw #WaitangiTribunal #IndigenousIP #TPP #TPPA #health #wellbeing

In this collection, Jayden Houghton has a thoughtful chapter on Taonga and the WAI 262 decision; Tracey Whare explores the Waitangi Tribunal hearings on the Trans-Pacific Partnership; and Carwyn Jones and co consider public health, social policy, and well-being.

Matthew RimmerOct 14, 2025

Members celebrate 50 years of the Waitangi Tribunal

https://www.teaonews.co.nz/2025/10/12/former-waitangi-tribunal-chair-on-future-for-the-new-generation-to-make-their-own-decision/

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/575495/how-can-you-provide-a-place-for-both-peoples-waitangi-tribunal-celebrates-50-years

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/top/575461/members-celebrate-50-years-of-the-waitangi-tribunal #NZPol #NZLaw #treatyofwaitangi #WaitangiTribunal #IndigenousIP

Former Waitangi Tribunal chair on future: ‘For the new generation to make their own decision’

Perhaps no single person has had as much impact across the 50-year history of the Waitangi Tribunal as Sir Eddie Taihakurei Durie.

Te Ao Māori News
A-Dub 🥝Mar 4, 2025
good riddance, Dick. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/543785/waitangi-tribunal-member-richard-prebble-resigns #Aotearoa #WaitangiTribunal
Waitangi Tribunal member Richard Prebble resigns

The former ACT leader says the Tribunal is creating "endless numbers of grievances" and "I don't want to be part of it".

RNZ
Show threadStrypeyNov 29, 2024

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"The Tribunal found that Māori did not agree with the Crown’s decisions but were denied the right to self-determine what is best for them and hauora Māori. Instead, the Crown implemented its own agenda – one that was based on political ideology, rather than evidence, and one that fell well short of a Tiriti/Treaty consistent process.."

#WaitangiTribunal, 2024

https://www.waitangitribunal.govt.nz/en/news-2/all-articles/news/tribunal-releases-report-on-disestablishment-of-te-aka-whai-ora

Ye godesses, will no one rid us of these turbulent priests?

#TeTiritiOWaitangi

@norightturnnz

Tribunal releases report on disestablishment of Te Aka Whai Ora | Waitangi Tribunal

The Waitangi Tribunal report "Hautupua" addresses claims concerning the process that the Crown followed to disestablish Te Aka Whai Ora (the Māori Health Authority), as well as the impacts of that decision.

Waitangi Tribunal
MarsdenOct 25, 2024

"Prebble ... opposed even limited recognition of Māori rights through the ... Foreshore and Seabed Act. ... recognition of Māori interests in water through Three Waters. ... He has nothing positive to offer the Tribunal, and his appointment can only be seen as an attempt at sabotage ... And to add insult to injury, we'll be paying for him to undermine them from within."

- @norightturnnz

#NZPol #WaitangiTribunal #RichardPrebble #Racism

https://norightturn.blogspot.com/2024/10/more-sabotage.html

More Sabotage

The Waitangi Tribunal has been one of the most effective critics of the National government and its racist, anti-Māori agenda. So naturally,...

Iain MacLean (he/him)Oct 5, 2024

Some say the Treaty Principles Bill is rooted in ignorance, but Rupert O’Brien argues the Act Party is making a calculated move to remove a significant barrier to its privatisation and deregulation agenda.

Many political commentators think the Act Party doesn’t fully grasp the importance of the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi, or lacks understanding of their real purpose. But this belief gives far too little credit to the party’s forward planning. Act, and their benefactors, do understand Te Tiriti, they remember the effects that it has had in the past, and they know that it stands as a major obstacle in their goal of deregulation and promoting laissez-faire economics.


#TreatyOfWaitangi #Act #TreatyPrinciplesBill #WaitangiTribunal

The real reason behind Act’s push to redefine the Treaty principles

The real reason behind Act’s push to redefine the Treaty principles

It's a calculated move to remove a significant barrier to the party's privatisation and deregulation agenda.

The Spinoff
MarsdenApr 22, 2024

"Doogan, therefore, set the date for the summons as April 26 to allow time for the Crown to test these issues in the High Court (in a hearing scheduled to take place today) ... Far from being evidence of a tribunal running amok and overstepping its authority, these proceedings appear to be the very model of careful and reasonable decision-making, with due regard and deference to the constitutional relationships at play."

#NZPol #WaitangiTribunal

https://thespinoff.co.nz/atea/22-04-2024/why-the-waitangi-tribunal-has-summonsed-a-minister-and-why-the-crown-is-fighting-it

Why the Waitangi Tribunal has summonsed a minister – and why the Crown is fighting it

Crown lawyers will try to convince a judge today that Karen Chhour shouldn't have to answer the tribunal's questions.

The Spinoff
zl2todDec 9, 2023

"Landmark Waitangi Tribunal report recommends Govt return Ngāpuhi land

5 mins ago

Landmark #WaitangiTribunal report recommends Crown return land to #Ngāpuhi

The decades-long inquiry concluded that the Crown engaged in extensive #Treaty breaches against northern Māori as far back as 1840. (Source: 1News)

A landmark report by Waitangi Tribunal into extensive Treaty breaches against northern Māori has finally been presented to iwi in #northland
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#NZpol
https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/12/09/landmark-waitangi-tribunal-report-recommends-govt-return-ngapuhi-land/

Show threadtanyaDec 3, 2022

In #WaitangiTribunal inquiry into OT, the Crown acknowledgd some of the issues were a consequence of colonisation but went on to state those issues were now beyond the influence of OT. The left hand of the state admitted its misdeeds while the right hand claimed that nothing could be done...

Renaming depts, using our reo Māori... is not a challenge to Crown’s power. And if it’s not a challenge to Crown’s power then it’s highly likely to reinforce Crown control. There really is no middle ground"