February 09, 2024
Busy session as Māori issues roil parliament
Te Pati Māori co-leader Rawiri Waititi is looking forward to taking the fight to protect Māori rights back to parliament when it resumes next week.
He intends to kick off with a challenge to the Government’s attack on section 7aa of the Oranga Tamariki Act which binds the child protection agency to a practical commitment to the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi, as well as waiting to see the final shape of David Seymour’s Treaty Principles Bill.
“We’re looking at all sorts of things to make sure we continue the activations, we continue to resist the three-headed taniwha continuing to devour the rights we have entrenched and that many of the courts of the land have acknowledge in favour of Māori over the last 30 years,” Mr Waititi says.
He doesn’t know what treaty principles David Seymour is talking as it’s the articles of Te Tiriti which are important.