Amy Brooke:
‘Time to abolish the unacceptably partisan Waitangi Tribunal
To Chris Finlayson, Minister of Treaty Negotiations:
I have just finished researching and writing the first draft of an article looking at the chequered history of the Waitangi Tribunal and its damaging involvement in the New Zealand political scene since its controversial inception.
Far from being an impartial objective, judicial body, the tribunal has included over the years activist part-Maori (part-Maori only, given that all Maori now apparently have an additional genetic background), some of whom have actually had an involvement with the tribes whose claims they are meant to impartially assess when making recommendations to government!
My conclusion, having discovered some quite staggering facts, is that it is high time to the Waitangi Tribunal to be disbanded, and for the legitimacy of activist, neo-tribal, part-Maori claims to be decided by the courts….’
The whole thing HERE
