27-10-2023, 09:29 AM
It's a shame that people are getting wound up about this. ACT is not proposing to get rid of the Treaty (they probably can't anyway) but wish to properly define the principles, write the relevant legislation then have a referendum to ratify it. See https://www.act.org.nz/act_proposes_refe...governance. Sounds pretty reasonable to me, especially considering how damage and bad feeling are growing with the indiscriminate application of it at the moment. It wouldn't be so bad if there was genuine good coming out of settlements, but so often the leaders get all the flash cars and the people they supposedly represent still wallow in poverty and we carry on as before with Maori being disproportionate in all the negative statistics when they shouldn't be. Something needs to change and this proposed process is at least an effort to get it right.