public meeting this afternoon<\/a>, Winston Peters said the party would “immediately abolish” the tribunal, creating the Treaty of Waitangi Completion Commission as an alternative.<\/p>\nThe Completion Commission would review all claims made prior to 2008, “after which time its work will be finished”. <\/p>\n
During the first 100 days in government, NZ First would table all legislation in order to focus on the Waitangi Tribunal amendments.<\/p>\n
Peters said the current organisation was not fit for purpose or appropriate in today’s political environment.<\/p>\n
“The Treaty of Waitangi industry jobs will be replaced by real work,” he said.<\/p>\n
“The days of the Waitangi Tribunal acting as an authority of parliament will be over.”<\/p>\n
A “strengthened” Ministry of M\u0101ori Development would be responsible for handling current and future Treaty of Waitangi issues and policies, as well as Crown M\u0101ori relations, as it once was in 1991.<\/p>\n
Peters said the Ministry would cover claims and maintain M\u0101ori success across the country.<\/p>\n
“The Ministry will ensure that M\u0101ori-owned land, marine farming, forestry and other resources continue to enhance regional productivity, employment and community resilience,” Peters said.<\/p>\n
“Contemporary claims, modern policy differences, and post-settlement leadership will be the responsibility of the Ministry of M\u0101ori Development.” <\/p>\n
NZ First believed the policy would allow Kiwis to remain “equal citizens with equal rights”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealand First has pledged to replace the Treaty of Waitangi Tribunal if elected, calling the board a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,137,43,139,69,135,270122,136],"class_list":["post-612268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand-first","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-politics","tag-vote-2026","tag-winston-peters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}