The damage caused by the treaty bill to Māori relations will take time to repair and debate over the issue may spill into next year’s election campaign
The New Zealand parliament this week voted down the treaty principles bill – legislation that has caused more division in our country than any other proposal in recent memory.
I have been around for long enough to remember the debates about the nuclear free legislation and homosexual law reform in the 1980s, and the treaty bill generated at least as much debate as those two highly controversial measures. It sought to redefine the principles that flow from New Zealand’s founding document, the Treaty of Waitangi.
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