Election 2017 - Party Policies - Maori Affairs/Government - Treaty of Waitangi
27th May 17, 9:16am
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Treaty of Waitangi
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- Create a level playing field for local government wards, by letting councils establish Maori wards without being overturned by a poll.
- Require councils to consider, at least once every six years, whether to establish Maori wards and Maori constituencies.
- Undertake a comprehensive review of the Treaty settlement process and put an end to "full and final" settlements, e.g. to allow settlements to be revisited where situations have changed or claimants wree shut out of original negotiations.
- Ensure claims can only be settled with the agreement of the original claimants and remove the Crown's "large natural groupings" approach to settlements.
- Incorporates Te Tiriti o Waitangi through the education system and all levels of the curriculum.
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- Entrench Te Tiriti o Waitangi in all legislation.
- Empower the Waitangi Tribunal to make binding recommendations.
- Implement a suite of overlapping policies and law changes that recognise the status of Māori as tangata whenua and uphold the rights guaranteed to Māori in Te Tiriti.
- Establish the role of a Treaty of Waitangi Commissioner as an Officer of Parliament.
- Support the protection of Treaty settlement land and whenua Māori from compulsory acquisition under the Public Works Act.
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- Maintain the high level of momentum National has brought to Treaty settlements.
- Achieve deeds of settlement with the few remaining willing and able groups by 2020.
- Progress settlements in regions with groups that have not yet received the benefits of settlement.
- Continue to deliver investment into New Zealand’s regions through settlement.
- The Treaty relationship is evolving rapidly—through the Post Settlement Commitments Unit, we will work with wi to build capability and protect the intergenerational investment of Crown and Iwi.
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- The Treaty should be a source of national pride and unity and not used to expand the separate rights of Maori or anyone else.
- The Treaty is not part of the New Zealand Constitution. It is not capable of supporting the extraction of so-called ‘principles’ for any legislative or government purpose. Ill-defined and abstract ‘principles’ are a recipe for legal and constitutional misunderstanding and dispute.
- The Waitangi Tribunal must fully, fairly and finally complete the settlement of all outstanding claims.
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