A SIMPLE GUIDE TO THE PRINCIPLES OF THE TREATY OF WAITANGI BILL
(also known as the Treaty Principles Bill)
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Why is Te Tiriti important for me & my community?
This is a good question to discuss together!
What is your relationship to Te Tiriti o Waitangi? What is important to you? To your friends and family? To your community?
Living in a country that is safe, peaceful? Keeping your language and traditions? Having a clean environment? A place for us all to belong?
Honouring Te Tiriti supports all of these things. The Treaty Principles Bill does not.
We want to honour Te Tiriti because we care
Why?
– We want to respect Māori people as the first people (tangata whenua) of Aotearoa. This is their land.
– Te Tiriti allows us to come and live here in this country.
– Māori have shared their country with us, we want to stand together with them.
– We want to live in a country that is fair and respects all people.
– If the government does not respect the first peoples of this land, how can we trust they will respect other communities?
How can we help?
Right now, in December 2024, the most helpful thing we can do is to let the government know we oppose the Treaty Principles Bill.
We can do this by writing a submission online, and by helping our friends and family members make submissions.
Every submission will be counted.
Together we can make a difference!