So why we were all busy being busy, our politicians decided to (in our best interests of course) create a 1975 Treaty of Waitangi Act, the Waitangi Tribunal, Five Principles for Crown Action on the Treaty of Waitangi and a Minister (open cheque book) for Treaty Negotiations?
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on December 27, 2022 at 11:11 am
I am surprised this is only coming to light again now when it was published in the New Zealand Herald on the 17 November 1999 by no other than the Chairman of the Waitangi Tribunal, Justice Judge Eddie Durie. It reads,
“Some Treaty of Waitangi claimants have asked researchers to change findings that would be unhelpful to their cases says the chairman of the Waitangi Tribunal.
Justice Durie said also that some tribes had even tried to make the payments of researchers conditional on findings being altered. He said the issue – and several others – had raised questions about the need for a code of ethics for researchers claims lodged under the Treaty.
The comments were in a paper, Ethics and Values, released on the Indigenous People and Law website.
Justice Durie said some groups had required commissioned researchers to remove material unhelpful to the claimant’s cases or amend their conclusions. Sometimes this was a condition of the researchers being paid. Some also presented biased claims, omitting evidence against their argument that should be presented. “There are also complaints from researchers of instructions not to consult with certain persons, or only those approved by the claimant groups,” said Justice Durie”.
Why didn’t these researchers also complauin then? They must have known what was going on.
And what about the man who alowed the claims to date back to 1840, Enacted the, “Five Principle for Crown Action on the Treaty of Waitangi”, “The Partnership Between Maori and the Crown, Geoffry Palmer, then ran for cover went he found it was all a terrible mistake.
Yes, there is alot of history not being told that must be told that appenned in the 1980’s that has been swept under the carpet. It’s time it was shown the light of day.
The Researchers did not complain because they had put in a huge amount of time finding out the real stories. If they went public, they would not only not get paid for any of their work (they had rents to pay, food to supply for their families, etc), but they could face expensive litigation in the Courts when the maori challenged them. The maori have ALL their Court and lawyer costs paid by the taxpayers. We have to pay for ourselves. This is fact, for I have been in Court twice myself fighting them.
The Waitangi Tribunal also do NOT use the official straightforward Littlewood Treaty. They use an unofficial version written by Hobson’s Secretary in flowery language that has missed out many things and inserted other things that change the meaning totally. This is the Freeman Treaty.
Maybe it should have been reported further afield. Was it on The Herald it was published? I would like to the Waitangi Tribunal closed down for good. New Zealand would be wealthier country if it hadn’t ended be paying over and over again for this Treaty c****. I notice their are more and more Iwi and Hapu making claims.
Amazing. The net Taxpayer is paying for something they don’t want.
It is that simple., and we can’t stop it until the corrupt Waitangi Tribunal is destroyed.
Again what make the grievance industry, corrupt or otherwise, such an insane activity to be operating, is that it helps to perpetuate tribal entities, with a culture stuck in a land that time forgot, that are detached from the values and capabilities required in a modern, democratic, technological society, unless that society effectively “goes native”, which is exactly the agenda being pursued by the Ardern Government powered by re-energised Maori insurgents. In which case the entire country will effectively be alienating itself from the rest of the advanced Western world to become a poor, pigin speaking South Pacific backwater where everything is mañana. We are witnessing just the start of that now with the nose dive in educational performance, rising crime and general deterioration of services from transport to health.
The 1975 Treaty of Waitangi Act and its Amendment are the biggest injustices ever created by any Government on its people as it allows one group of NZ citizens the privilege of a taxpayer funded apartheid Tribunal to claim against their fellow NZ citizens using Principles and Partnership dreamt up by Ministers and bureaucrats using false information and a false Treaty Document.
Ref- Facts on the Waitangi Tribunal by One New Zealand Foundation.
Note: The Waitangi Tribunal breaches Article 3 of Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
So why we were all busy being busy, our politicians decided to (in our best interests of course) create a 1975 Treaty of Waitangi Act, the Waitangi Tribunal, Five Principles for Crown Action on the Treaty of Waitangi and a Minister (open cheque book) for Treaty Negotiations?
And look where that got us?
God save New Zealand.
I am surprised this is only coming to light again now when it was published in the New Zealand Herald on the 17 November 1999 by no other than the Chairman of the Waitangi Tribunal, Justice Judge Eddie Durie. It reads,
“Some Treaty of Waitangi claimants have asked researchers to change findings that would be unhelpful to their cases says the chairman of the Waitangi Tribunal.
Justice Durie said also that some tribes had even tried to make the payments of researchers conditional on findings being altered. He said the issue – and several others – had raised questions about the need for a code of ethics for researchers claims lodged under the Treaty.
The comments were in a paper, Ethics and Values, released on the Indigenous People and Law website.
Justice Durie said some groups had required commissioned researchers to remove material unhelpful to the claimant’s cases or amend their conclusions. Sometimes this was a condition of the researchers being paid. Some also presented biased claims, omitting evidence against their argument that should be presented. “There are also complaints from researchers of instructions not to consult with certain persons, or only those approved by the claimant groups,” said Justice Durie”.
Why didn’t these researchers also complauin then? They must have known what was going on.
And what about the man who alowed the claims to date back to 1840, Enacted the, “Five Principle for Crown Action on the Treaty of Waitangi”, “The Partnership Between Maori and the Crown, Geoffry Palmer, then ran for cover went he found it was all a terrible mistake.
Yes, there is alot of history not being told that must be told that appenned in the 1980’s that has been swept under the carpet. It’s time it was shown the light of day.
The Researchers did not complain because they had put in a huge amount of time finding out the real stories. If they went public, they would not only not get paid for any of their work (they had rents to pay, food to supply for their families, etc), but they could face expensive litigation in the Courts when the maori challenged them. The maori have ALL their Court and lawyer costs paid by the taxpayers. We have to pay for ourselves. This is fact, for I have been in Court twice myself fighting them.
The Waitangi Tribunal also do NOT use the official straightforward Littlewood Treaty. They use an unofficial version written by Hobson’s Secretary in flowery language that has missed out many things and inserted other things that change the meaning totally. This is the Freeman Treaty.
Maybe it should have been reported further afield. Was it on The Herald it was published? I would like to the Waitangi Tribunal closed down for good. New Zealand would be wealthier country if it hadn’t ended be paying over and over again for this Treaty c****. I notice their are more and more Iwi and Hapu making claims.
Can you provide the source when Justice Durie said these things? Please email me at julian@stopcogov.nz
Amazing. The net Taxpayer is paying for something they don’t want.
It is that simple., and we can’t stop it until the corrupt Waitangi Tribunal is destroyed.
Again what make the grievance industry, corrupt or otherwise, such an insane activity to be operating, is that it helps to perpetuate tribal entities, with a culture stuck in a land that time forgot, that are detached from the values and capabilities required in a modern, democratic, technological society, unless that society effectively “goes native”, which is exactly the agenda being pursued by the Ardern Government powered by re-energised Maori insurgents. In which case the entire country will effectively be alienating itself from the rest of the advanced Western world to become a poor, pigin speaking South Pacific backwater where everything is mañana. We are witnessing just the start of that now with the nose dive in educational performance, rising crime and general deterioration of services from transport to health.
The 1975 Treaty of Waitangi Act and its Amendment are the biggest injustices ever created by any Government on its people as it allows one group of NZ citizens the privilege of a taxpayer funded apartheid Tribunal to claim against their fellow NZ citizens using Principles and Partnership dreamt up by Ministers and bureaucrats using false information and a false Treaty Document.
Ref- Facts on the Waitangi Tribunal by One New Zealand Foundation.
Note: The Waitangi Tribunal breaches Article 3 of Te Tiriti o Waitangi.