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🚨 Released 31 July 🚨 Waitangi Tribunal Report into proposed 'changes' to te Tiriti in NZ legislation. CoC said they'd introduce Bill in "early August". let's get ready. mass submissions, hīkoi, whatever it takes #ToitūTeTiriti #nzpol 334pg report here: www.waitangitribunal.govt.nz/en/publicati...

The Waitangi Tribunal's appropriately scathing report about the government's plans to strip Treaty clauses from legislation can, to some extent, be summed up as 'People titled "The Honourable" acting dishonourably' forms.justice.govt.nz/search/Docum...

Another demonstration of the pointlessness of the NZ select committee process. That this process is allowed to operate along party lines, with the govt always having a majority, makes a mockery of the role of parliamentary scrutiny in a system with no other effective check on executive power.

If I was Phil Goff I would be getting ready to stamp Winston Peters into a mulch given what he got sacked for compared to what Winston's pulling.

FFS *&*^% ... ... someone tell our PM that racism is not a game. ... and it hurts ... a lot ... Maybe if he wasn't white and so privileged he would understand. And, yes, I am angry. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

'There's a game going on here': Luxon asks for votes in response to Peters' immigrant commentsPrime Minister Christopher Luxon has condemned Winston Peters' comments about a Green MP as "racist" and "outrageous", but says he maintains confidence in him as Foreign Minister.www.rnz.co.nz

Just what Wellington needs. More job cuts. 👍

*principled

So...you wouldn't remove a Foreign Minister for being a racist, but you might allow a foreign power to dictate who the Foreign Minister is? Truly courageous and pricipled leadership of a proudly independent nation!

'There's a game going on here': Luxon asks for votes in response to Peters' immigrant commentsPrime Minister Christopher Luxon has condemned Winston Peters' comments about a Green MP as racist and "outrageous", but says he maintains confidence in him as Foreign Minister.www.rnz.co.nz

The situation is made worse by the fact many of those being pushed out have been the real workhorses of the Tribunal - those who treat it as a full-time commitment and are the most active in both serving on multiple inquiries and working alongside staff in drafting reports.

They're definitely useful skills to have and should be part of the mix of skills in the membership, but it's concerning when all those with strong backgrounds in indigenous studies, Treaty issues, and history are getting pushed out one by one for clearly ideological reasons.

The approach seems to be to clear out all those who have expertise and have devoted their lives to these issues and largely replace them with people with generic business/governance/management skills or, in the case of Prebble, culture warriors determined to trash the institution.

A cynical person might suggest that the excellent questions and contributions were a more significant factor. 😉

He's certainly been kept busy, but it was not his choice to 'step down' (despite what the govt has tried to imply!)

bit sick of the responses, including from the Race Relations Commissioner, characterising outright unhinged racism from on high that attacks migrants' rights to political participation, as unseemly, inappropriate, bad manners, undiplomatic etc rather than fundamentally damaging to our democracy

At the same time Chris Hipkins, buddy I know someone's telling you NZF are still a potential partner and it's going to lose you the damn election. Go out first thing tomorrow, absolutely torch Winston and tell the country you'll never work with him or his grubby cooker racists in any circumstance.

He cannot criticise Winston for being openly and proudly racist, the Chinese Embassy registering protest with MFAT, Shane Jones doubling down on the racism as PM because the government will fall apart. Luxon is without a doubt New Zealands weakest ever Prime Minister, a shadow of a man. Wet wipe.

I am begging a journalist to ask Luxon, on camera, why the Prime Minister refuses to condemn the racism of Winston Peters. When he says "I have criticised it" hit him with the, "not as Prime Minister, why is that?" and watch him slowly melt.

It is hard to see the government's actions as anything other than an attempt to completely hobble the Tribunal. This would fit with a broader pattern of trying to neutralise any bodies that can attempt to hold the government to account.

The Tribunal has already lost a huge amount of expertise and capacity in recent years through members not being reappointed. Many of their replacements chosen by the government have other commitments that prevent them from taking on any significant amount of Tribunal work.

This has received little attention, but is significant news. Paul Hamer, who I think was the last remaining historian member of the Tribunal and quite possibly the Tribunal's most busy member (currently serving on 11 inquires), has not been reappointed by the government.