#treaty of waitangi

[sapphia]

So for anyone who doesn’t keep up with nz politics, which i’m assuming is most of you, our new radical right government have decided one of their main aims of their term will be to re-interpret the Treaty of Waitangi.

The Treaty is an agreement between Maori and the Crown, now the NZ government. It is the founding document of new zealand and is recognised as a constitutional document today; it is the only treaty of its kind/time still honoured, and it is the steps we’ve taken through the Treaty to provide restitution and build an ongoing relationship with Maori and their iwi (tribes) that has allowed the relationship between Maori and the government to thrive where other indigenous groups have struggled to achieve recognition of their rights.

This is going to be entirely undone. Not only is this issue inflammatory and a threat to race relations in Aotearoa, leaked documents show the proposed “reinterpretation” wants to negate pretty much the entirety of the legal rights provided to Maori under the treaty. For example, the treaty article that guarantees land rights for Maori will be reinterpreted to guarantee land rights for “all New Zealanders”. Which means this article would be essentially meaningless for Maori.

By removing Maori from the context they are trying to put Maori on an “equal footing” with all New Zealanders; they are riding the idea that Maori have special rights and privileges above that of the average New Zealander. Obviously this is bullshit but it’s effective rhetoric and there’s a grain of truth to in that the extent of Maori rights hadn’t been clearly defined due to the ongoing nature of the process. So this has got a lot of people with a poor grasp of the issues very upset and baying for change.

There is a hui (meeting) being held today for all the iwi to begin discussions of how Maori will respond to this. New Zealand politics isn’t very interesting usually, but our progress on indigenous rights, until now, has been absolutely ahead of the field. If you care about indigenous rights globally, you should care about this, because in the same way Australia’s referendum loss has spurred on this action, the loss of rights here will spur other right wing governments to be similarly bold to their own indigenous groups.

Indigenous rights in New Zealand are under attack. They are meeting today to discuss it, and New Zealand will be listening, but I want the world to be listening. Because our government needs the shame of being called out by more than just the people who they’ve already decided don’t vote for them.

Maori have a long and proud history of fighting for their rights, and they’ll do it again here. And I’ll be on the pickets beside them, but there’ll be plenty of my own pickets to attend, because this government is radical in every sense of the word.

So please, even if you’re very far away, stand behind them in this. Keep your eyes on us. Amplify their voices. Don’t let the racism drown them out.

#New Zealand #nz #aotearoa #maori #nzpol #david seymour #racism #treaty of waitangi #indiginous

[tciddaemina]

Toitū Te Tiriti protest in Ōtepoti, Te Wai Pounamu today, on Waitangi Day the 6th February. The new coalition government is threatening to make major revisions to the interpretation of Te Tiriti o Waitangi (The Treaty of Waitangi, Aotearoa New Zealand's founding document) in order to erode the rights and protections promised to Māori during the accord that founded the nation. Unsurprisingly, its blowing up in David Seymour's slimy face, with Waitangi Day kicking off nationwide protests.

Honestly, ACT, NZ First, and National can all go get fucked. First they want to reverse the offshore oil drilling ban, then they want to neuter climate legislation and downgrade sex education in schools, and now they're coming after Te Tiriti as well. Lets see how well that goes for them.

#New Zealand #Aotearoa #politics #protest #Toitu te Tiriti #Treaty of Waitangi

[vox-anglosphere]

A Happy Waitangi Day to all our Kiwi friends in New Zealand!

#Waitangi Day #New Zealand #National Day #Southern Cross #Commonwealth #blue ensign #6 February 1840 #national flag #Kiwis #national holiday #Treaty of Waitangi #On this day #NZ

[paradigmquest]

So… I’m thinking we need to rewind to the latest election and vote again… this government is insane.

Turning against the indigenous people in this day and age? Seriously?

Deciding to turn away from the Maori version of the Treaty of Waitangi is CRAZY, and could literally get us removed from the UN (which is a ridiculous risk to take in the current global climate), AND could even technically get all non-Maori kicked out of NZ (seriously, look it up, it’s terrifying)

Dammit. I guess we have to hope that Australia’s offer to let us be part of them still stands. Probably a couple of centuries too late though.

#nzpol #nz #nz politics #revote #vote again #nz vote #Maori #treaty of waitangi #CAN WE PLEASE GET SOME SANITY HERE

[indizombie]

Thirty-three per cent of Māori are disabled but by the time they reach the age of 40, 69 per cent of Māori have a disability. Most of that comes from poverty, living low-wage jobs where the labouring work wears your body out earlier … that's 69 per cent higher than any other demographic in the country. The Treaty of Waitangi actually gives me my rights as a Māori woman to be able to exercise and live in my cultural world as much as being a part of Aotearoa in a larger sense. I should be an equal citizen in this country and that's what that's supposed to guarantee.

Dr Huhana Hickey, lawyer, on how the health system has failed Māori people living with a disability

#Huhana Hickey #New Zealand #Māoris #disability #Treaty of Waitangi #Aotearoa

[gwydionmisha]

#Maori #New Zealand #Aotearoa #Treaty of Waitangi #Indigenous Rights #News

[sojourneronearth]

After the Tiriti training I've had more appreciation to the hurts&wrongs that need to be restored&reconciled. Many lives were taken, many many injustices conducted, many trusts betrayed.

Maori language is really quite precious. It nearly became extinct..

The spirituality of the Maori can be respected, but to enforce the same on others to embrace. It is a different matter

The legal personhood of Whanganui river..in 2017. Te Urewera park in 2014. Mt Taranaki in 2018. Essentially it's still another human speaking entity behind the rivers..It is odd. How do they know what the river/thing wants?

#2022 #treaty of waitangi #maori #history

[fuchsiaswingsong]

#Moana Jackson #Treaty of Waitangi #treaty principles bill

[gretavdr]

Off to the Bay of Islands

Off to the Bay of Islands

We left Auckland on Sunday morning, heading north to the Bay of Islands. We drove through rolling green hills which had been cleared of the native vegetation years ago. It must have been a huge job. Just how huge was on display at our first stop, the Parry Kauri museum at Warkworth, dedicated to the kauri, an enormous, magnificent NZ tree. It’s the second largest species in the world after the…

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#kauri tree #NZ 2022 #parry kauri museum #treaty of waitangi

[cathnews]

Te Whāriki – an idea for Church reform in Aotearoa

Te Whāriki – an idea for Church reform in Aotearoa

Te Whāriki is a contemporary response to the need to reform the institutional Church in Aotearoa. “It is an urgent task,” the founding group says. “Although Pope Francis’ 2023 synod holds some hope for nurturing a church that is responsive to the needs of all, we don’t feel confident that the people can get the quality of inclusion and participation within a hierarchical power structure such as…

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#Catholic Church in New Zealand #Te Whāriki #Treaty of Waitangi

[airyairyaucontraire]

This is just shameful. I’m glad that at least the MoJ is providing advice that this is a terrible, horrible, racist, destructive idea.

#Aotearoa #new zealand #te tiriti o waitangi #the treaty of waitangi #trying to legislate away our founding document as a nation #so they can pretend all that *history* is over and everyone’s equal now and Māori who aren’t rich and healthy need to stop complaining

[nando161mando]

Happy Waitangi Day to all the New Zealand folk.

I hope the current right wing NZ Government doesn't get a chance to water down the treaty like they are proposing.

#newzealand #treaty

#new zealand #treaty #nz politics #nzpol #nzgov #nz #aotearoa #waitangi day #class war #humanrights #human rights #antifa #antifaschistische aktion #antifascist #antinazi #antiauthoritarian #anti capitalism #anticapitalista #anti colonization #anti colonialism #anti imperialism #ausgov #politas #auspol #tasgov #taspol #australia #fuck neoliberals #neoliberal capitalism #anthony albanese

[pxrewhxi]

The Coalition Government will do more harm than good

The Coalition Government (National, ACT, and NZ First) is rallying for catastrophic legislative and social change in Aotearoa New Zealand. Here's two examples of how:

Lawmaking under urgency

Ever since their 2023 win, the Coalition Government have promised (and recently completed) an intense 100-day plan that focuses on objectives over a wide range of areas, including: education, health, employment, and justice. However, much of these legal changes were established under urgency.

Under urgency refers to an action wherein a Government is able to forego the usual lawmaking norms by either shortening the time for debate on legislation or skip over the submission of public views on proposed bills.

On 8 March, 2024, Marc Daalder (a senior political journalist based in Wellington) reported that the Coalition Government have set a new record for "laws passed under urgency in first 100 days." Only days later, on 12 March, 2024, it was confirmed that the Coalition Government has passed a total of 14 bills in seven weeks under urgency. The average is 10 bills over an entire term.

Here is a list of some of the bills the Coalition Government have passed under urgency (as of December, 2023). Including the repeal of the Fair Pay Agreement—a bill that aimed to protect employees by ensuring that unions and workplace associations could fairly "negotiate terms and conditions for all covered employees in an industry or occupation."

Undeniably, the use of urgency this frequently is not normal.

Lawmaking in Aotearoa NZ is supposed to be a months-long process (sometimes even years) wherein bills are debated and challenged. While certainly not the most time-effective, our lawmaking norms ensure proposals have been considered from numerous perspectives. By eliminating this process, the Coalition Government has introduced a plethora of laws that lack the critical insight of our wider parliament—and have proven that their 100-day plan was completely unachievable within the boundaries of our usual democratic processes.

Te Tiriti o Waitangi

Under the Labour Government (and even, in part, the John Key National Government) race relations between Māori and Pākehā have improved considerably. The gradual integration of Te Reo Māori (the Māori language) and te Ao Māori (the Māori worldview) into education, healthcare, government departments, and public signage have broadened the scope of tolerance, understanding, and empathy between our two peoples. For the first time in centuries, many Māori (myself, included) felt as though we were seeing positive change across all areas of our livelihoods.

However, Coalition leaders David Seymour and Winston Peters have other ideas.

In November, 2023, RNZ reported that Te Tiriti o Waitangi/Treaty of Waitangi will come under review. In particular, how the Treaty's principles are interpreted and integrated into legislation. And despite its many flaws, Te Tiriti is one of the few constitutional documents in the world that promotes partnership and collaboration between an indigenous community and the descendants of European settlers—or as we know it: co-governance. However, this proposed review is looking to eliminate co-governance outright, and override the Treaty with a Treaty Principles Bill. Below are the new principles the Coalition Government (ACT, in particular) would introduce instead:

All citizens of New Zealand have the same political rights and duties

All political authority comes from the people by democratic means

New Zealand is a multi-ethnic liberal democracy where discrimination based on ethnicity is illegal

Although seemingly innocent at a first glance, ACT's proposal is problematic in two major ways.

Firstly, Te Tiriti and its current principles inform how the public service can support Māori citizens through legislation and policy. For example, the Waitangi Tribunal and select committee inquiries discovered that hegemonic health policies were "failing Māori." One of the reasons identified for this was because there was "no sufficient mechanism for Māori to systematically contribute to decisions about services and delivery." As a result, in 2022, the Labour Government established the Te Aka Whai Ora/Māori Health Authority. Te Aka Whai Ora was established with the intentions to improve Māori health outcomes by designing Māori-centric strategies and policies. However, now, we don't even have that.

Secondly, by reinterpreting the Treaty and removing the unique space Māori hold from the principles, the Coalition Government are effectively erasing all the historical grievances between Māori and Pākehā. We can't just pretend Parihaka, the 1975 Māori Land March, the Land Wars, and other similar conflicts didn't happen. Just as Māori have to take responsibility for the rampant violence within our own communities, Pākehā should not be shielded from the shameful violence their ancestors perpetrated against us. Yes, it's uncomfortable. Yes, it will challenge your worldview. But it happened. And whether we like it or not, we can't just forget. Forgetting leads to harmful cycles that are repeated over and over again.

Let us, as a country, learn from the mistakes of our ancestors.

#māori #new zealand #aotearoa #maori #coalition government #national #act #nz first #christopher luxon #david seymour #winston peters #te pati maori #the maori party #nz politics #indigenous peoples #indigenous #indigenous rights #laws #health #politics #education #the treaty of waitangi #te tiriti o waitangi

[fountainbeee]

Treaty of Waitangi

Treaty of Waitangi - some consider it a symbolism to strive for or a 'base line', while others remember how far we have to keep going to honor sovereignty of people all over the world.

#treaty #sovereignty #peoples #maori #waitangi #Youtube

[ourdreamsareneon]

Because of the new govt in Aotearoa (New Zealand) I have to worry about possibly being made redundant at twenty three years old. I hate this timeline. I hate this timeline. I hate this timeline.

#the new govt could careless about parks and rec #bc christopher luxon is allergic to the sun #or hates excercise bc it doesnt hurt rhe planet enough? #idk but after he gets rid of the treaty of Waitangi dept were next on the chopping block #(thats an educated guess he hasnt actually ordered any layoffs yet) #(yet.)

[krishnashah2]

Waitangi Day 2024

The date for Waitangi Day in 2024 is Tuesday 6th February. It serves as New Zealand's national holiday and honors the Treaty of Waitangi of February 6, 1840. The treaty, which was signed by the British Crown and various Maori leaders, is considered the founding document of contemporary New Zealand.

#The date for Waitangi Day in 2024 is Tuesday 6th February. It serves as New Zealand's national holiday and honors the Treaty of Waitangi of #1840. The treaty #which was signed by the British Crown and various Maori leaders #is considered the founding document of contemporary New Zealand.