Jackson said he would work with Pou Tikanga representatives and the National Iwi Chairs Forum on the first phase. He said that he would be concurrently working with “a small group of legal experts with links to the New Zealand Human Rights Commission and expertise in public law.” The issue has gained political traction over the past few months with the emergence of
He Puapua, a document with ideas on how produced within government ministry Te Puni Kōkiri in 2019. First the ACT Party and latterly National leader Judith Collins picked up the report as evidence that the Labour Government was secretly planning to set New Zealand on a path of racial separatism. ACT has characterised it as the first step on the path to New Zealand becoming an “ethno-state”.