This week a Waitangi Tribunal claim was lodged by a group of seven people seeking an urgent hearing into the Crown’s approach to settlement matters relating to Mahurangi and Tāmaki Makaurau. The group is of the view that the proposed settlement does not have regard for Ngāpuhi and other groupings
Day: August 13, 2012
Last week we advised that the Government had requested that the Waitangi Tribunal report back on WAI 2358, the water and geothermal resources claim, by 24 August. (Our view was that the request was reasonable, given the Tribunal’s acceptance of the significance of the policy programme affected by the claim.)
This week the Chair and Deputy Chair of the Ministerial Committee on Poverty, (Bill English and Tariana Turia respectively), released a joint press statement on the work of the Committee. By way of background, this (non-Cabinet) Committee was agreed to within the Relationship Accord (i.e. the parliamentary confidence and supply