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Given Te Tiriti has always been about recognising the unique constitutional arrangement between rangatira (on behalf of iwi and hapū) and Governor William Hobson (on behalf of the British Crown), how did Chris Hipkins see that playing out now in contemporary times?

“I think the way we exercise our authority to reflect the principles and that includes article two of the Treaty, which recognizes tino rangatiratanga, that that’s been the conversation. That’s what we’ve spent the past four or five decades is working out how to do that,” Hipkins said.

‘Now, it doesn’t encapsulate into nice, neat little sound bites because there are going to be areas where it’s a bit messy as we work our way through what that looks like.

“But simply saying, ‘let’s just stop all of that and start again in a way that writes Māori out of the picture’, which is what the Treaty Principles Bill, based on the reports we’ve had so far, suggests the government wants to do, I think it’s just the wrong approach.”

https://www.teaonews.co.nz/2024/08/26/hipkins-maori-did-not-cede-sovereignty/