NZ Centre for Political Research

This week's poll asks:

Do you believe the Waitangi Tribunal should be abolished?

*I have just written a letter to post to many politicians telling them of my disgust in the Government in the way they appease Maori. I have accused them of being racist. This is all ok but not enough. I really don't care as we leave to live in Aus in November. I hate NZ, I think it is a racist hole that no matter how hard you work you will never get out of it. Our kids won't come back, our parents are dying and what do we have? Racism shown towards us at every turn we make. Well Maoris, I will lose 25% of my money but it's worth losing it all to get away from it all. I feel no patriotism, just hate for this Government, and every Government before it back to the 80s. Do we march and protest? No. We sit on our useless backsides and moan but show no one how we feel. We whisper as we are so spineless. We have let it happen, of course Maori have taken it all, wouldn't you, when it is so easy?most NZers don't give a damn, they won't until it's too late. Christine

*10 out of 10 for David Round. Gordon

*It is a racial divider ,well past its used by date. Ken

*It should have gone many years ago. Sheila

*We are one people!!!!! Trev

*If we could in New Zealand, find Politicians with the intestinal fortitude to remove this cancer from our society. I doubt very much if the United Nations would take very kindly to this act, probably it would end in sanctions.
Also I doubt very much, whether this generation of present New Zealanders seduced by the bogey of racism, indoctrinated and educated into the Marxist process of continual appeasement; would have stomach to defy or rebel against any political party or “elected” government. As majority referendums and petitions to Parliament are almost totally ignored we are into a situation similar to the French prior to 1792.
Thirteen years before the American Civil War a self taught lawyer from the Mid West wrote:
“Any people, anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one which suits them better”. A. Lincoln. The centre of this statement is “Any people, anywhere”; for when the Southern States took Lincoln at his word, he called it Rebellion!!!
We are faced with the proposition that a small ethnic elite have intentionally blackmailed our government into demands, inconsistent with the very principals of democracy....The basic principal that a minority whatever they represent, cannot override and “inflict” their form of government, their legal system, their mores upon the majority, by virtue of being “the first peoples of the land”.
The signing by the Key Government of the article of U.N. Rights of Indigenous Peoples was a betrayal of the democratic rights of every citizen in New Zealand. Brian

*They are just taking the piss, and getting away with it. Murray

*This half breed Pakeha dominated rort needs to go. We do not need these ex pom union agitators. Left UK cos of M. Christopher

*This body has long outlived it's usefulness. Rob

*NZ is a multi-cultural society made-up of "boat people" from many different ethic, racial, and national backgrounds. All are immigrants or descendants of immigrants. NZ Maori are no more idigenous than Moriori peoples than Chinese and other. Few NZ Maori are of "pure" Maori ancestry. We are "One people" living in a set of islands called New Zealand surrounded by sea. Lawrence

*Of course it should. Long overdue, either we are one country or we are doomed. But realistically it wont be abolished while votes are at stake. Ray

*Yes, the whole 'you owe us' broken record needs to be shut down. It is economically crippling NZ. Bruce

*It has become a very expensive, very sick joke. Ronmac

*This body is a racist org with the aim of taking-over NZ by Maori. Auntie Podes

*Waitangi Tribunal will kill NZ Ken

*There are so-called "Maori elite" who are using it for their own political agendas. The Tribunal's decisions are totally biased toward Maori claimants who are ever inventing new reasons to get government (read "our") money. We do not need or want laws which divide our nation further. I write this from South Africa where, for the past 18 years the effects of apartheid are being unraveled. The Waitangi Tribunal and the Maori Party are taking us in the opposite direction, towards separatism! Laurence

*Outdated - no general benefit to NZ. Dennis

*We cannot be held responsible for anything that happened before we were born but we have the responsibility to clear up any problems caused by the actions of previous generations. K

*I think that the Tribunal has served its basic purpose and claims for ownership of flora, fauna and now water is becoming quite ridiculous. Ivan

*It no longer has relevance in todays world. BILL

*No place for it in the 21st century. Pack of parasites. Mike

*There are enough racial problems dividing New Zealand. Ian

*We are all New Zealanders and respond as one, not as of birth. Peter

*Every NZ'er must read Ian Wishart's book 'The Great Divide' which clearly shows the Treaty of Waitangi was for an equal partnership between Maori and Pakeha with no special conditions for Maori under a partnership. Janet


*I believe the Treaty was meant as an equal partnership between Maori and Pakeha with no special conditions for Maori - the whole thing has got completely out of hand! Let us get back to what was originally intended - that we would be one people living harmoniously in one country. Janet

*The sooner the better, before it does any more damage. Bruce


*I can almost understand why they went from island to island, they weren't wanted! David

*Read "The Great Divide" by Ian Wishart. Don

*We have had enough of all the Racist "claptrap". Ian And Clare

*Since when are a people who migrated to another land "indigenous"? -- or has that piece of NZ's history been conveniently forgotten by everyone? Ted

*One law for all! Wake up NZ. Peter

*Because it is being abused. Ivan

*We've got to see ourselves as one people. "A house divided against itself will fall". Peter

*Its a "millstone" around the neck of our country. It must go, and soon. Phil

*I am not anti Maori and have have grown up with and consider many as friends, however I think the ongoing dredging up of past injustices on which to base further claims unjustified.
The division of NZ on racial lines is totally unacceptable driven by extremists and lawyers and others and will cause untold damage to the fabric of society.
It is racism pure an simple. Tony

*It has outlasted its usefulness. NZ is becoming like UK, which is now ruled from Brussels due to lack of opposition. Michael

*It needs to read correctly and in light of the Kohimarama gathering. Dave

*It seems that maori are on the high road to apartheid..thank you for giving us this information. Jane

*It is outdated with inter marriage of Maori changing the face of New Zealand. Elsa

*I believe we should be living and working together side by side as New Zealanders. It worked well in combat, it could and should work well in peacetime. Of course Maori traditions should be upheld, and passed on, but the Governance should be for all NZ'ers. Judith

*The Waitangi Tribunal are so biased they have lost all credability and should be dumped. For years their verdicts have been a foregone conclusion. Ray

*IT IS A REDUNDANT BODY. WE ARE ALL EQUAL. PAKEHA ARE HONOURING THE TREATY - MAORI ARE NOT. Graeme

*If David Round explains the present proposed constitutional review as another crime against the common good, are we essentially dealing with criminals? Monica

*The Waitangi Tribunal may have served a useful purpose when it was founded, to right some of the "injustices" - although these were perpetrated under the "rules of engagement" & mores of a century & a half ago. At best, these are based on folkloric evidence & hearsay, with frequently conflicting accounts ....Nowadays, it is a gravy train for Iwi elites with minor benefits to maori. Claims & assertions become more & more fanciful by the day. Dave

*Has served its purpose, and has gone on to create much ill-will and division. Nick

*It has NEVER applied the intended and TRUE principals of the Treaty - "One People, One Nation" - and never will. It is simply a vehicle to gouge money from the public purse.
NO body or entity can own water - it comes from the sky then gets recycled in clouds, which drift around the world.
There is no such thing as "New Zealand water" anyway - most of ours arrives in clouds from Australia. So the Aborigines [who at least are just that [the original inhabitants of that land - not those who arrived from sea and conquered NZ's TRUE Tangatafenua] so they would have a better claim than Maori!! It's academic anyway, as I repeat my assertion - NOBODY can own the water, or the air, airwaves, etc etc. Edwin

*Well past its use by date. Karl

*It has outlived its original purpose, and become a tool of racial extremists anxious to divide rather than unite this Country. Michael

*Just a pack of racists. That what NZ has reverse racism. Patrick

*The tribunal should go or be reconstituted with dispassionate individuals on both sides. I suspect that this borders on the impossible so for safety's sake - Farewell Tribunal. Peter

*This country is to be enjoyed by all nationalities. Maori must appreciate the wider view that this country is not for sale & they have no more entitlement to any of their claims, next they will want a trety over the air we breath. Gary

*Yes abolish the Waitangi Tribunal. Neil

*The Tribunal now seems to be endowering itself a status over and beyond anything that was intended at its inception. It should be brought to heel and better stilll abolished. I am sick and tired of the rapacious greed of Maori and of this sycophantic attitude of this corrupt National government. Bill

*This Maori claims nonsense is bleeding this country dry. Judith

*It has outlived it's usefullnes and is now making ridiculus decisions, nobody owns water. Andrew

*As there are no pure moari left in New Zealand I see no reason why I should pay for what two or three of a moaris grandparents did to the other one. Cyril

*Absolutely to be abolished. It has displayed its extreme racial bias and prejudice and is a continuing blight on healthy democracy. Tony

*Just one word comes to mind when another treaty issue is settled and that is "GREED"...We are one country and should be helping one another and not just one race. Jane

*Google: Define Racism - "The belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, esp. so as to distinguish it as...
Prejudice or discrimination directed against someone of a different race based on such a belief."

Therefore, both positive and negative discrimination based solely on someone's race is abhorrent. Waitangi Tribunal = Only for Maori = Racist. End of story. The Maori alive today are no more native than I. They were born here, so was I. The only difference is that a vocal minority of Maori won't get on with anyone of a different race because they are horrific racists. No better than the horrific racists on any other race's side. So, if Maori don't want other races to treat them as Maori, and not people, then they have to stop treating themselves as "Maori" and start treating themselves as people - the same as everyone else. John

*Absolutely, and in all its forms and references. Like many other countries, NZ was dragged into civilisation at the point of a gun. Are heading for that again? Ray

*Its killing the future of New Zealanders. Neville

This week's poll asks:

Do you believe the Waitangi Tribunal should be abolished?

*Current taxpayers who had absoluteley nothing to do with past "issues", should not be asked to pay. The tax take should simply be spent equally, without prejudice, amongst us all. Adam

*• We refuse to accept any reference to the Treaty of Waitangi or its principles in any constitutional document.
• We require that such references be removed from all existing legislation.
• We require that race-based Parliamentary seats be abolished.
• We require that race-based representation on local bodies be abolished.
• We require that the Waitangi Tribunal, which has outlived any usefulness it may have had, be abolished.
This should have happened yesterday!! Maurice

*Has the United States of America signed up to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples?
I cannot imagine them accepting Articles 25 or 32 of that Declaration! Imagine a scenario of NZ having the resources and technology that the USA has. Would Maori, via the Waitangi Tribunal, lay claim to the nuclear arsenal? Would they charge a 'royalty' for the armed forces to enter territorial waters or air space?
his farce has gone on long enough and I hold to account this nations news media, for failing to give this subject the fullest, impartial and in depth coverage it needs.
Maori are NOT the indigenous people of NZ. Moriori preceeded them and archealogical findings have proved habitation of NZ prior to the arrival of the Maori invaders. Vic

*Chief justice prendergt in 1940 said "how could the Crown recogognise what did not exist and deinied that the Treaty of Waitangi imposed any obligation on the Crown" Now that not only makes sense as Maori had no written language and the only law that existed and univesal throughout NZ, was each iwis had its own through conquest and barbarism.. courts or government. Robert

*Absolutely. It is not a fair Tribunal representing everyone's interests. It is a racially biased Tribunal representing Maori interests only and is relying on fake information. It should have gone long ago and must go before it wrecks this country irrevocably. B+H

*This gravy train Maori are on has to be derailed!!! Isn't it strange, that we spent years criticizing South Africa for its apartheid policies, but we now happily ignore what is happening in South Africa and New Zealand? Warren

*With so much intermarriage between Maoris and other races it is time to realize that we are all New Zealanders and there should no longer be special treatment favouring one group over another. George

*That a court could be established where submitters are not cross-examined and any "research" is taken at face value is with no verifaction beyond belief. Adrian

*The sooner the better this is abolished, the better off the country will be. F#$% the Maoris. Graham

*Stay as is, this is just and fair. James

*This gravy train outlived any costructive purpose years ago. Ian

*This is the most undemocratic piece of legislated body. It is an affront to human rights and equality. Allan

*As you say its a gravy train for iwi elite. And the record of some of them is less than eglatarian, to put a light coat on my real views. Dunc

*Although it is a significant historical document which should be preserved for future generations, the radical and racial interpretations should be assigned to the the history af blantant Maori racisim and treated with the contempt it deserves. John

*About as much use as those currently warming seats in The Beehive. John

*We should all be one people with one law for all. Barbara

*The Waitangi Tribunal has made the Treaty in to an agreement that its creators never intended. This has cost the NZ taxpayer millions of dollars of unjustified payment and created racial division that will last for many years. Peter

*Sick of all this Tribunal crap! Robert

*An unelected bunch of parasites hell bent on destroying our nation. Trevor

*I am 1/16th Ngapuhi and adamantly believe in one system for all N.Z's Stuart

*This has gone too far already. All people should be equal in NZ. Robert

*One law for all citizens . Barrie

*I greatly fear though that there is no one with the courage to do so! David

*Time we put it all behind us. Maori have got very racial,and seem to think they are owed. Us european kiwis gett racialy bashed all the time. S over it all. Christy

*Tomorrow would not be soon enough. Geoff

*After watching Q&A last Sunday, yes. Corporate iwi will always want more and the politicians will give it to them because of the 38 billion in assets Maori have. It's not about what is right or wrong. Jackp

*Maori elite just find new ways to get more from nzer's, enough is enough. Gary

*The reason why my vote is no is that technically the Crown almost incidentally took away some existing property rights. It sometimes went about it in a way that could be argued was often a breach of good process, a matter which many of those attacking the Tribunal would want for themselves. The governance problem is really in the operation of the Tribunal and the ideology of those running it, which often unconsciously guides the attitude to how evidence is sifted to support certain conclusions. The existence of the Tribunal per se is not arguably prejudicial to equality, as it relates in its legislative origin to correcting breaches by the Crown. It also isn't the fault of some Maori that they have seized on this to seek to reintroduce a parallel set of rights to everyone else - that is just normal 'rent seeking', which one can see in the corporate world every day and in most of us in our private capacity most of the time. There is however, the issue of how one might translate a very vague Treaty into uncertain legislative rights. Like most who are commenting on this issue I think that this could bring about bad law, not because it seeks to advance a Maori cause, but because it is too uncertain and could create parallel rights, not based on need, as is standard for groups such as the disabled for instance, but on privilege (generally tribally based). I suspect better analysis of these issues is required in your forum, as with some of the environmental issues, where the comment seem generally position based instead of evidence based. Environmental and constitutional issues are singular in terms of context and sometimes real and warranted concerns should be expressed that may contradict business or private interests - and too much of the current debate is often emotion led (very American) and that applies to both left and right, if one can still style the debate continuum that way. Rob

*This ancient document should be declared a nullify .The sooner this is done the better for all New Zealanders. Peter

*This ancient document should have been abolished years ago alon with the Waitangi Tribunal. Alison

This week's poll asks:

Do you believe the Waitangi Tribunal should be abolished?

*A vicious organisation which will keep a very few, useless members of NZ society rich. Malcolm

*Definitely the longer it is allowed to exsist the more rediculous claims can be thought up. Clark

*The treaty Tribunal is a cancer that should be removed ASAP. Jason

*These greedy racists wearing suits with the obligatory bone carving tucked under their triple chins, and the fake feather cloak (oh give me a break!!) are the epitomy of greed and racism. They know that they are on a ridiculous tax payer funded wage so there is good reason to take months to come up with answers that were known months prior. They keep their huge noses buried forever in the tax payer funded trough. It is a race based kangaroo court that is not allowed to be questioned. Any lie or allegation is generally turned into a fact after they have "investigated" it. Bit like letting the employees decide their next pay rise and the employer must sit outside and say nothing, and just pay it. It is racially offensive to me, but I'm a non-maori so I guess I don't count. Derejk

*Most certainly yes. It's abolishion is at least 10 years overdue, probably 15-20. But don't forget that Maori radicals / tribalists are pawns of the UN, and the UN are the pawns of the globalists. The time for revolution is now. Peter

*Much evidence exists that all modern ' Maori ' history is fraud and flawed. PRE Maori history needs full exsposure now! Rodney
The sooner all people in New Zealand accept that we should become one person in terms of Law and Privileges, the sooner we will become a wealthy Nation and the envy of the rest of the World. Peter

*This tribunal should be scrapped immediately. The radical maoris and bleeding this country dry. The smart maoris are in Australia where they are treated the same as any other citizen and are doing very well. Here in this socialist paradise the help fill the jails way out of proportion to their share of the population. Colin

*So much for John Key de-railing the maori gravy train....he's just added a few more first class carriages. Another traitor in a long line of traitors to the people of NZ. Louis

*The Waitangi Tribunal has outlived the purpose for which it was reated. Bill

*Not just abolished but publically discredited, so that its previous decisions cannot be used to justify any future actions by radicals. Lech

*It is all based on lies. It is about time that the information on pre maori settlement as in the Waipoua forest is brought into the history books. Skeletons have been carbon dated from well before maori occupation. Laura

*With ownership comes responsibility. I believe claims for damages may come from NZ citizens for damage done by Maori water. I suspect when it becomes a cost, Maori may not connect with it with the spiritual enthusiasm. Howard

*Its outlived it use by date and is now a Maori Political animal. David

*The iwi have 'milked' it long enough! Alan

*Without a doubt we are heading down the same road step by step that Zimbabwe did to get governance by the blacks!!!! Peter

*Should have been done a long time ago. Robert

*It must be if NZ is to move forward - let us remove the shackels. James

*As soon as possible! Steve

*Declare a republic. What treaty? Desmond

*All new zealanders should resist the maori takeover. Robert

*They are no more than a cabal of conmen of similar ilk to the criminal gangs their race produces. Baxter

*Lets move on to develop the worlds first and best multicultrual society . Gordon

*Yes. Unequivically YES! All references to racially based law must be removed from our Legislation. To do otherwise constitutes Treason as it condemns 90% of New Zealanders to second class and alienates their property rights, and by association their human rights. Dianna

*Positive discrimination is as bad as any other form of discrimination. We should ALL live as one race - New Zealanders Stewart
Absolutely ! The treaty is also history we have to move on to the 21st century. Ken

*I find the treaty to be devicive and wish for a society based ond effort and contribution not racial inequity. Trevor

*Maori are not true indigenous people. They are immigrants just like everyone else. Roger

This week's poll asks:

Do you believe the Waitangi Tribunal should be abolished?

*If all people have equal status then there is no call for a racially devised tribunal. Gerhard

*Done it's time nd David Round is 100% correct! Joe

*Tribunal: a court of justice. Really?? Martin

*Matui Rata, a past Labour Member of Parliament said in the 1970's that if you felt you were a Maori then you were a Maori. Perhaps it is time for all New Zealanders to pblicise that claim and sign up for the Maori Parliamentary Roll and become legal Maori persons and claim our rights under the Treaty of Waitangi. Neil

*It is legalised theft! Nothing else has been achieved by the Tribunal!!!! The treaty was all about "One People" not segregation because of colour of skin. Maori were not the first to NZ by thousandss of years, there is no reason for privaledge regardless, the settlements are nothing more than a gravy train for a few to rip off the many. Ian

*The biggest rort in this country's history. Benjamin

*Absolutely totally yes. The Treaty guarantees equal rights with Europeans, NOT special treatment. Caroline

*Yes Yes Yes please!!!! I think Maori have already been over compensated for the past!!!!! June

*ONE NATION, ONE PEOPLE, ONE LAW - objectively based upholding individual rights regardless of skin colour or race. Tribal or race-based "rights" are just another form of socialism that could potentially divide this country into a civil war. Donald

*This so called tribunal is bleeding the country dry. It should be one set of laws for every one, Moari dont know how lucky they are and it breaks my heart to see the government giving in to moari on every thing they demand. Our politicans dont have the guts to stand up to moari and say NO. Ray

*It is a racist farce. John

*The tribunal stands in the way of New Zealand development as a nation of one people. EJ

*Just a gravy train, not just for radical Maori but also for all the lawyers and other hangers-on. Gary

*One nation one people. Bring back the ten commandments and avoid anarchy. Peter

*Out with racial segregation. Kerry

*It has been hijacked and no longer serves any original purpose. Roderick

*This racist treaty nonsense has gone on far too long. Maori who signed, ceded sovereignty under the terms of the treaty, in return they got the protection of law. Pre-Treaty there was no law it was the law of the spear or musket. There is and was no such thing as Maori Law. The solution to water and foreshore is a return to English common law a concept that has worked for over 400 years. Michael

This week's poll asks:

Do you believe the Waitangi Tribunal should be abolished?

*It is the biggest problem and threat to our peacful future that exists. Donald

*It should never have existed in the first place. But now wait for all the cries of "racism" from those whose upside-down world believes that preferential treatment for one race is not racism and equality for all is! John

*Absolutely NO. We have already lost our independant court of appeal, thanks to aunty Helen, and other has being who did not follow their constituents lead. And any who thinks it should be abolished is a hypocrite. Rawiri

*The clauses of the treaty have been twisted in recent years to favour one group only. That is the group called Maori who in the main have less Maori blood than that of other nationalities. Rog

*Settlements have been a blight on this country and its democracy. Stuart

*Think the UN would find what is happening here (biculturalism supported above multiculturalism) interesting not that they have any teeth and are probably worth abolishing too. Graeme

*New Zealand will not survive the racial division being perpertrated by maori at this time. We will become a take over target by larger unfriendly neighbours. Frank

*That traitor key will just keep giving our country away to part-maoris - so abolish the "treaty" now. Barry

*We as a county do not need any system where one group of people have more rights over others. ONE COUNTY ONE PEOPLE. Nigel

*Get rid of it. Robert

*It is just a cheerleader for Maori supremacism in property rights. Taonga means "property taken with the spear (tao). Not abstract ownership such as airwaves or rainwater, or foreshore and seabed. Hugh

*It should never have been established to begin with virtually no safeguards to curb inevitable Maori greed!! Frank

*Bloody oath! It is just a Maori gravytrain for the elite. Barry

*Massive claims have failed to improve the social welfare of Maori in general and the whole process is a sham. Mark

*The Waitangi Tribunal has been a disaster for New Zealand, dragging us into the 3rd world by the constant pay- outs which will never end. The strangest thing is that despite all the pay-outs of money and land, the average Maori is no better off now than before. Where has all the money gone that was supposed to help them? Lorraine

*The political application of this outdated treaty is -for the lack of a better word-utterly grotesk and totally unsustainable!!! It serves a small group of ruthless and power driven people to exploit this country and everybody in it. Michael

*One New Zealand for all regardless of ethnic background. Anything else is racist. Peter

*Claims are never ending. Lynn

*THE SOONER THE BETTER. John

This week's poll asks:

Do you believe the Waitangi Tribunal should be abolished?

*Yes, for the reasons setout in David Round's article today. Don

*THIS NONSENSE SIMPLY HAS TO STOP. THE PURSUIT OF SPURIOUS "HISTORY" HAS TO BE SHOWN UP FOR WHAT IT IS.
WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH. Scrap the treaty. Jean

*While the Waitangi tribunal may have been born with good intentions it has become nothing more than a rubber stamp for more and more radical grievance industry claims and now is doing more harm than good. John

*Fair minded people in this country have been saying this for years. Genuine issue no problem, fat catting gravy training and pure rorting NO WAY! No racial discrimination. No Maori Seats in Parliment, No "special" racially allocated council seats, this reverse apartheid (which it is because it has govt sanction) has gone to far. I know that I wouldn't be able to register a White Party or a European New Zealand Party because that would be deeming racist but a Maori Party is allowed. Discrimination is action. Wendy

*How could any maori have signed any treaty, when none of the buggers could write at the time? John

*Long overdue, unfortunately those of us that understand this need to make enough noise to wake up the rest of new zealand which is no easy task given this type of discussion is shut down by the marxist progressive types and their media. Jonathan

*By now it must have sucked up squillions of tax payer dollars. When's it going to stop, worst its borrowed overseas funds. Grant

*We should have left NZ 20 years ago. This govt is the absolute pits the way they have given in to every greedy demand of these "white people with a touch of brown blood" and they must be stopped. No wonder good NZers are leaving in droves. If one writes to our "comfortable" with everything, he just passes letters on to finlayson who MUST have a touch of brown blood in him, and he just chooses to ignore protests. We must rid ourselves of this lot at the next election. Time to look seriously at the conservative party. Carolyn

*Well past it's used by date. Brent

*Cannot come soon enough! Tim

This week's poll asks:

Do you believe the Waitangi Tribunal should be abolished?

*It should have been abolished years ago. Tim

*The Tribunal produces such biased reports in favour of Maori that taxpayers are being treated like fools. It is long past time that we started fighting back against this nonsense. Peter

*New Zealand has been poorly served by gutless politicians. If it was any other group holding the country to ransom, they would have been given short shrift! Brian

*What is even more outrageous is that the Waitangi Tribunal is government funded with members appointed by the government! Why on earth haven't some sensible people been put on there who could provide a balance - and the truth? Richard

*Thanks goodness someone is fighting back against state racism - good on you Muriel Newman and David Round. Sandra

*If historic Treaty claims have now been abolished, why has the Tribunal taken on the water claim? That dates back hundreds of years. That's "historic" isn't it? Max

*The Tribunal, the Maori seats, and the Treaty in statutes - they should all be abolished! Geoffrey