Twiddling your thumbs while still at Level 3 this Friday morning? Well, here’s your big chance to ask all the questions you have been wanting to ask about He Puapua, including whether Maori truly covet their own House of Parliament.
Newstalk ZB will have Claire Charters, author of the He Puapua Report, as its guest. To encourage you to participate, it should be noted that yesterday morning (Monday, Sept 27), Newstalk ZB host Kerre Woodham spent a couple of hours on Three Waters and He Puapua. It started when it was revealed that, extraordinarily, the government was already advertising many jobs for Three Waters. She then took a number of calls on the topic of the ‘moment’. Most were strongly ‘anti’ the government’s move and some good info was ‘released’ and ‘revealed’ to our unsuspecting listening public.
Here’s a wee bit of ‘background’ on Ms Charters to help get you ready for Friday morning’s session.
Auckland Law School academic Claire Charters, who is director of the Aotearoa Centre for Indigenous Peoples in the law, was part of the working group and wrote He Puapua.
She said it was unfortunate the National Party had described the report as divisive when it was intended to create unity.
“It’s about Maori being able to realise the compact that is so constitutionally important to Aotearoa, Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
“In a post-colonisation world we can do that without fear and that’s about all living within a Aotearoa state but in a way that recognises that Maori were here and that the Treaty is a compact between Maori, as sovereign entities, and the British Crown and realising that shared authority under a singular state, so coming together in that way,” she said.
Charters said she wished the report wasn’t used as a “political tool” but instead used as an “instrument to have a genuine discussion about what realising our international obligations and what Te Tiriti o Waitangi requires”.
rnz.co.nz
So if it’s disinformation you are hearing during the Charters stint, send your ‘cards and letters’ during the programme, or more precisely, your phone calls and texts to express your disapproval!
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