{"id":612564,"date":"2026-09-26T16:34:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T16:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/612564\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T16:34:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T16:34:13","slug":"new-zealand-first-announces-plan-to-abolish-waitangi-tribunal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/612564\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand First announces plan to abolish Waitangi Tribunal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand First says it will seek to immediately abolish the Waitangi Tribunal following the election.<\/p>\n<p>Announcing the policy on Saturday afternoon, the party claimed the tribunal had become a &#8220;make-work organisation&#8221; that was &#8220;hearing any and all claims that in a former time would&#8217;ve been dismissed on application as being inappropriate&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Many claims before the tribunal are directly contesting the right of a mandated parliament to pass laws,&#8221; the party said in its policy announcement.<\/p>\n<p>The party would table legislation within the first 100 days after the election to replace the tribunal with a Treaty of Waitangi Completion Commission.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The new Commission will have the purpose of finalising all claims prior to 2008, after which time its work will be finished,&#8221; the party said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will put an end to activists using the Tribunal and taxpayers&#8217; money as a platform to interfere with the direction and legislation of Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will also ensure that all relevant policy issues pertaining to the implementation of existing Treaty of Waitangi settlements are addressed by a strengthened Ministry of M\u0101ori Development.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_top\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/politics_election-2026\/1593210\/new-zealand-first-announces-plan-to-abolish-waitangi-tribunal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790440453_559_copy-of-rnz-banner-jpg.webp\" width=\"647\" height=\"92\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"narrow-format\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"color:transparent;object-fit:cover;display:block;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;width:100%;height:100%\"\/><img alt=\"\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790440453_559_copy-of-rnz-banner-jpg.webp\" width=\"647\" height=\"92\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"wider-format\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"color:transparent;object-fit:cover;display:block;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;width:100%;height:100%\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealand First says it will seek to immediately abolish the Waitangi Tribunal following the election. Announcing the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-612564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612564","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=612564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}