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Richard Prebble: Treaty talk is taking NZ down the wrong road
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Richard Prebble: Jacinda Ardern s odd response to Treaty report debate
11 May, 2021 05:00 PM
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The original nine documents of the Treaty of Waitangi on display in the Constitution Room at Archive NZ in Wellington. Photo / Mark Mitchell
The original nine documents of the Treaty of Waitangi on display in the Constitution Room at Archive NZ in Wellington. Photo / Mark Mitchell
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New Zealand signs too many treaties - over 1900 of them, not including UN declarations. Declarations are legally non-binding. But as the recent fury over the review of a UN declaration demonstrates, declarations do have consequences.
Our Ministry of Foreign Affairs has never seen a UN treaty it does not want to sign. From experience, I can advise that the Ministry says to Cabinet: This treaty will have no effect on any existing law or policy. Our international reputation will be damaged if New Zealand does not sign .
Wananga – He Turuapo-o-iwi: Iwi Visions
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THE PRESS 160 YEARS is a series marking the launch of
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The Press will revisit stories from every year of publication. Fifty years of being British was celebrated at Akaroa on August 11, 1890, half a century after the Union Jack was raised there to outflank the French. The glorious history was reiterated before “great crowds” at the Jubilee. “History told them how the French had contemplated taking possession of Akaroa, and how Governor Hobson had despatched the Britomart to secure the island to the British. Captain Stanley had been successful in anticipating the French Commodore, and the flag of England had been hoisted where they now stood.
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Hinerangi Himiona and Hone Mihaka tell the story of their tupuna who was the first person executed by the Crown in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Nearly 180 years ago, at a central Auckland intersection, a teenager was hanged before hundreds of settlers, changing the course of history. The execution still haunts the boy’s whanaunga, a legacy to the disproportionate treatment of Māori in the justice system today. Early one morning, a Māori teenager named Maketū woke to the sound of carpenters building the instrument of his death. For months, he had lived in a wretched, rat-infested jail cell on Queen St in central Auckland as he waited to stand trial. It was early in 1842, and the new colony’s justice system was literally being built; the finishing touches were being made to the new Supreme Court building next-door while Maketū awaited judgment.
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