Introduced to parliament by a minor coalition party, the treaty principles bill seeks to abandon a set of principles that guide the relationship between Māori and ruling authorities
Māori people protest outside parliament against a proposed law that would redefine New Zealand’s founding agreement between Indigenous Māori and the British Crown, in Wellington in November 2024Māori people protest outside parliament against a proposed law that would redefine New Zealand’s founding agreement between Indigenous Māori and the British Crown, in Wellington in November 2024A marathon public hearing into a bill that seeks to radically reinterpret New Zealand’s founding treaty between...
He said if the bill were to be passed, “our government would be the laughing stock of the western world, who understand how responsible states today seek to manage relationships with their Indigenous people.”“It endeavours to raise a number of principles that simply do not reflect the relationship between the crown and tangata whenua ,” he said.
“Dividing people into racial groups is the definition of racism,” he said, adding it was putting New Zealand on the path towards totalitarianism.Seymour was followed by dozens of speakers, including a handful who supported the bill and an overwhelming majority whohighlighted its failings.“It is exploiting basic wedge-politics – it grows dissatisfaction and anger and that becomes incredibly hard to manage politically and extremely divisive for the country,” Hayward said.
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