Friend, I want to see a reset of the Waitangi Tribunal as
much as you do.
The time has come for the Waitangi
Tribunal to take a statutory haircut. No more straying off script nor
pursuing ideological fancies such as parallel sovereignty. Our
position has always been to push for full and final Treaty Settlements
and that's what the Tribunal needs to focus on.
The review
will require input from stakeholders beyond iwi litigators and Crown
Law. An Independent Technical Advisory Group (ITAG) will lead the
process. They have a tough job ahead of them and we wish the ITAG the
best as they undertake this critical piece of work.
The Treaty of Waitangi is being wielded as a weapon in
debates well beyond its purpose.
Too many meddlers are using the Tribunal as a forum to
challenge the supremacy
of parliament and the right of
Governments to govern. The
Waitangi
Tribunal has waded into
government policy such as the amendments to Oranga Tamariki and the
Fast-Track consent process, just to name a couple. We
know Kiwis do not want our founding document turned into play dough
by Treaty litigators.
New Zealand First will bring the Tribunal back to its original
intent. This is one of our practical commitments that will reverse the
erosion of the principle of equal citizenship. This has been a
substantial focus of ours, as evidenced by how we:
-
Removed co-governance from the delivery of public
services
- Directed that the provision of public services is
prioritised on the basis of need, not race
- Confirmed that UNDRIP has no binding legal effect
on New Zealand
-
Restored local referendum on the establishment or
ongoing use of Maori wards
- Stopped all work He Pua Pua - Labour's plan for co-governance
- Abolished the Maori Health Authority
- Started work to amend section 58 of the Marine and Coastal Area
Act to recognise all New Zealanders have an interest in our
coastal waters.
- Committed to conducting a comprehensive review of all
legislation that includes 'The Principles of the Treaty of
Waitangi'.
We have been flat out for eighteen months delivering on our
promises to you and we will have our foot down on the accelerator for
the next eighteen months too. Our party will not let up for one second
on defending equal rights.
We don't do what is easiest,
we put forward pragmatic solutions in order to reverse the erosion of
the principle of equal citizenship.
Before you know it, the election year will be upon us and we will
be asking you and other New Zealanders to support our practical
responses to the ethnic warping of our democracy. Only New Zealand
First has been standing boldly against separatist ideology of the
Maori Party. Only New Zealand First provides policies and ideas that
actually work.
We need to build numbers to achieve that mandate
now. If we can increase the number of our MPs in Parliament,
New Zealand First will have more influence in Cabinet to push back on
woke nonsense. To achieve this we need to do a couple of crucial
things:
1. Grow our supporter base of
commonsense Kiwis who are fed up with being burdened by wokery and
ideological claptrap.
2. Fill the New Zealand First
war chest so we can hit the next election like a tonne of
bricks.
I'd like to ask you to join
us in making the most out of this term of government while preparing
to be fighting fit in 2026.
If you want to throw your support behind our anti-woke cut-the-crap
plans for this term and next, you can chip
in to our Commonsense Fund. We rely mostly on small
dollar donations and we will need every dollar we can get to prepare
for 2026.
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The war on woke won't be easy, but we're going to fight it!
Shane Jones
New Zealand First
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