November 23, 2023
Treaty attack threat to stability for country
Greens co-leader Marama Davidson says Government parties should reconsider plans to tinker with the Treaty of Waitangi.
Former Mana Motuhake leader Sandra Lee-Vercoe has warned that stunts like ACT’s proposed referendum on treaty principles strike at the hear of long standing constitutional arrangements.
Ms Davidson says parties like ACT see te tiriti as a negative rather than a positive.
“For example the place of tiriti is the right, is the privilege by which tauiwi, non-Maori and pakeha have a home here in Aotearoa. All politicial parties trying to undermine and threaten that are actually threatening the stability and cohesion of our country for everyone, not just Maori,” she says.