Te Ringahuia Hata

Waitangi Tribunal opts for pragmatic outcome

Press Release – Te Ringahuia Hata The substance of the Waitangi Tribunals report on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA), vindicates the claimants concerns, especially about foreign investors special rights under the Agreement. But in the end pragmatism held sway …

Waitangi Tribunal report contradictory

Press Release – Te Ringahuia Hata A contradictory report released by the Waitangi Tribunal, following an urgent hearing into the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA), has upheld virtually all of the claimants concerns about the potential risks to Maori yet concluded that the …

Talking with TPK on TPP is not Māori engagement

Press Release – Te Ringahuia Hata Leaked emails have been filed as evidence today by lead claimant counsel Annette Sykes in the TPPA Inquiry and presented as part of the cross examination of chief negotiator for the TPPA, Dr David Walker.

Our Sovereignty is Not for Sale

Press Release – Te Ringahuia Hata Six applications and nine interested parties are seeking an urgent hearing in the Waitangi Tribunal arguing that the TPPA would breach the Treaty of Waitangi. The Tribunal will decide today whether to give the claim urgency. The Crown says it is …

Crown says no to delaying TPPA

Press Release – Te Ringahuia Hata On Tuesday lawyers for the claimants seeking an urgent inquiry into the Crowns actions in negotiating the TPPA by the Waitangi Tribunal asked the Crown for an undertaking that no action would be taken towards making final commitments on behalf of New Zealand …