Your search
Results 15 resources
-
This article considers the puzzle of the location of tino rangatiratanga in the post-Treaty settlements era in the context of current controversy in New Zealand over recognising Maori self-determination or tino rangatiratanga as guaranteed by Art 2 of the Treaty of Waitangi. On one level, the current political and legal struggles reflect a fundamental tension between Maori aspirations for tino rangatiratanga and the state's desire to maintain centralised sovereignty. At a deeper level, the government opposition to co-governance stems from questions about the evolving role of the Treaty - in particular the guarantee of tino rangatiratanga and its ability to apply to a much wider range of Treaty issues (other than natural resources) and Treaty partners; for example, non-tribal Maori collectives serving urban Maori and not bound like tribes by kinship ties. The Waitangi Tribunal, originally established to facilitate Treaty settlements, is now at the centre of this shift in thinking to expand the interpretation of tino rangatiratanga. In a recent series of reports, the Tribunal has recognised the diversity of Maori identity and the legitimacy of non-tribal collectives as Treaty partners, particularly when these organisations are created by and responsive to the socio-economic needs of Maori. The proliferation of Treaty partners thus raises issues of co-ordination and coherence - how do these many partners engage effectively with the Crown and is every Maori organisation a Treaty partner for the purposes of Art 2 tino rangatiratanga? And does provision of social services by these Treaty partners violate the right to equality?
-
"The third in a series committed to discussions of Te Tiriti o Waitangi/Treaty of Waitangi issues. These essays from... scholars and researchers take a dynamic approach to understanding Tiriti/Treaty relationships, acknowledging the ever-evolving interplay between the Crown and Māori through time. The book addresses pressing issues like Treaty principles, sovereignty, the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and manawhenua relationships to Te Tiriti and settlements. It emphasises the roles of tikanga and rangatiratanga in fostering genuine progress, and envisions a future guided by these principles in advancing Māori–Crown relationships"--Publisher's website.
-
The New Zealand state developed from a treaty between the British Crown and hapū (sub-tribes) in 1840. The te Reo (Māori language) text and the English version of the agreement are fundamentally different. Breaches of this treaty and tension over how the political relationship between Māori and the Crown should proceed are ongoing. In 2019, the Cabinet Office issued a Circular instructing bureaucratic advisers of the questions they should address when providing advice to ministers on the agreement’s contemporary application. In this article, we use Critical Tiriti Analysis (CTA) – an analytical framework applied to public policies – to suggest additional and alternative questions to inform bureaucratic advice. The article defines CTA in detail and shows how using it in this way could protect Māori rights to tino rangatiratanga (a sovereignty and authority that is not subservient to others) and substantive engagement, as citizens, in the formation of public policy. This article’s central argument is that the Circular reflects an important evolution in government policy thought. However, in showing how the Circular privileges the English version (the Treaty of Waitangi) over the Māori text (Te Tiriti o Waitangi), the article demonstrates how Māori political authority remains subservient to the Crown in ways that Te Tiriti did not intend. We show through the conceptual illustration of the care and protection of Māori children, despite the significant evolution in government thought that it represents, these rights are not fully protected by the Circular. This is significant because it was Te Tiriti, with its protection of extant Māori authority and sovereignty, that was signed by all but 39 of the more than 500 chiefs who agreed to the British Crown establishing government over their own people, but who did not agree to the colonial relationship which may be read into the English version.
Explore
Topic
- Treaty of Waitangi
- Cabinet (1)
- Critical Tiriti Analysis (1)
- Decision making--Evaluation (1)
- Equality (1)
- Kāwanatanga. (11)
- Local Government (1)
- Mana whakahaere. (11)
- Māori (New Zealand people) -- Civil rights. (11)
- Māori (New Zealand people)--Civil rights (1)
- Māori (New Zealand people) -- Government relations. (11)
- Māori (New Zealand people) -- Legal status, laws, etc. (11)
- Noho a-iwi. (11)
- Populist (1)
- Public Policy (1)
- Race discrimination (1)
- Reparation (Criminal justice) (1)
- Representation (1)
- Self-Determination (1)
- Self-Determintation (1)
- Sovereignty (1)
- Te Tiriti o Waitangi (1)
- Tiriti o Waitangi. (11)
Resource type
- Book (1)
- Book Section (10)
- Conference Paper (1)
- Journal Article (3)
Publication year
-
Between 2000 and 2026
(15)
-
Between 2000 and 2009
(1)
- 2004 (1)
-
Between 2010 and 2019
(1)
- 2012 (1)
- Between 2020 and 2026 (13)
-
Between 2000 and 2009
(1)