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NZ Politics Daily - 12 December 2023

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Bryce Edwards
Dec 11, 2023
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TREATY, TE REO MĀORI, TE PAPA PROTEST, RACE-BASED POLITICS, MORIORI
Chris Trotter (Democracy Project): Contested Ground
Simon Wilson (Herald): The Government and te reo Māori: Are they trying to start a culture war? (paywalled)
Joel Maxwell (Stuff): Some steps were giant, some tiny, but the waka always moved forward
Audrey Young (Herald): Act leader David Seymour sets out details on Treaty of Waitangi principles bill and referendum (paywalled)
Dave Armstrong (Post): ‘Anti-woke’ re-branding a costly exercise in more ways than one (paywalled)
Waatea: Te Paparahi o Te Raki Report challenge for crown
Amelia Wade (Newshub): Iwi files urgent claim in Waitangi Tribunal against Government actions
Te Aniwa Hurihanganui (1News): Māori file urgent claim to Waitangi Tribunal over Govt policies
RNZ: Iwi files for urgent tribunal hearing on government's te reo Māori, Treaty of Waitangi policies
James Perry (Whakaata Māori): ‘Government acting like a drunken sailor’ - iwi leader as urgent hearing is filed
Te Ahipourewa Forbes (Re: News): Māori activists explain why they’re marching against the new government
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): The reason white people lurve James Meager is the exact same reason they lurve Winston Peters
Waatea News: Reo needed for all teachers
Natalie Portmanteau (The Blue Review): Same old English names, same old public servant games (paywalled)
Michael Cugley (Whakaata Māori): Moriori extinction claim in Parliament leaves descendants confused
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Jemima Hustin (RNZ): Te Papa should remove English version of the Treaty of Waitangi - Māori legal expert
Tommy de Silva and Madeleine Chapman (Spinoff): A brief history of complaints about Te Papa’s treaty exhibit
Frances Chin (Post): ‘Disappointed’: Te Papa co-leaders react to Treaty exhibition defacement (paywalled)
RNZ: Te Papa says panel with Te Tiriti o Waitangi version damaged by protesters
Felix Desmarais (1News): Te Papa protest 'not at all' influenced by Govt policies - Luxon
Molly Swift, Gray Gibson and William Terite (Newshub): 12 arrested after Te Tiriti o Waitangi display defaced at Te Papa
Vita Molyneux and Azaria Howell (Herald): Twelve arrests after protesters abseil inside Te Papa, deface Treaty of Waitangi exhibition
Ryan Anderson (Stuff): Protesters arrested after defacing Treaty of Waitangi exhibit at Te Papa

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