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Letters: Political expediency trumps massive public interest in Treaty Principles Bill
David Seymour’s Treaty Principles Bill has drawn a record response, with 470,000 submissions from the New Zealand public. Clearly this reflects a massive public interest in the bill and the ...
The New Zealand Herald18d
Letters: Public must be heard on Treaty Principles Bill; look overseas for hot house solutions
Why is the office for Treaty Principles Bill submissions now able to cherry-pick only 80 hours of oral submissions for this bill that has rendered hundreds of thousands of submissions? Apart from ...
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Over 400 NZ church leaders oppose controversial changes to historic treaty with Maori as public consultation ends
“We therefore express our opposition to the proposed Treaty Principles Bill.” The letter pointed to the lack of recognition of the collective rights of iwi Maori and argued it undermines ...
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Treaty Principles Bill stirs nationwide debate
In just a few months, David Seymour’s Treaty Principles Bill will be snuffed out, but the debate is likely to reignite. Both supporters and opponents of the Treaty Principles Bill say – like it or not ...
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Waitangi Day 2025: The Conversations, Commemorations And Celebrations Taking Centre Stage
The iwi chairs have already made it clear that ACT's Treaty Principles Bill will be a priority in ... In a rare move in 2024, the iwi chairs sent an open letter to King Charles III, asking him ...
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David Seymour's hapū urge him not to attend Waitangi Day in Northland due to Treaty Principles Bill.
David Seymour's hapū, Ngāti Rēhia, has formally requested he not attend Waitangi commemorations in Northland, due to his ongoing support of the Treaty Principles Bill. In a letter sent to the ACT ...
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David Seymour's hapū requests he not attend Waitangi Day commemorations
David Seymour's hapū, Ngāti Rēhia, has formally requested he not attend Waitangi commemorations in Northland, due to his ongoing support of the Treaty Principles Bill. In a letter sent to the ACT ...
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Ngāti Rēhia awaits Seymour’s Waitangi response
Last week, the settlement trust sent a formal letter to David Seymour ... Waitangi Day has become a day of unity for Te Taitokerau. However, Seymour’s Treaty Principles Bill threatens to reverse all ...
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A door-knock and the death of the Official Secrets Act
After a leaked copy of the Cabinet memo arrived in Sutherland’s letterbox, he wrote an audacious letter to Finlay ... fair pay agreements, the Treaty Principles Bill, and overseas investment in ...
The Treaty Principles Bill’s promise of ‘equal rights’ ignores the blind spots of our democracy
For as long as we’ve had democracies, majority rule has left some in the minority worse off. We need to be talking about what ...
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The Treaty Principles Bill’s promise of ‘equal rights’ ignores the blind spots of our democracy
University of Canterbury provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. University of Canterbury provides funding as a member of The Conversation NZ. Despite being used in both the ...