Other fourth Labour government innovations included greater recognition of the Treaty of Waitangi through the Waitangi Tribunal, Homosexual Law Reform, the Constitution Act 1986 and the New Zealand Bill of Rights.

Based on the principles of partnership, Māori-speaking government, general revitalisation and dialectal protective policy, and adequate resourcing, the Waitangi Tribunal has recommended " four fundamental changes ":

Section 162 of the Education Act 1989 ( re-affirmed by the Waitangi Tribunal in 2005 ) specifies that wānanga resemble mainstream universities in many ways.

In 1975, the Waitangi Tribunal was established as a permanent commission of inquiry tasked with researching breaches of the Treaty by the Crown or its agents, and suggesting means of redress.

The Waitangi Tribunal, in Te Paparahi o te Raki inquiry ( Wai 1040 ) is in the process of considering the Māori and Crown understandings of He Whakaputanga o te Rangatiratanga / The Declaration of Independence 1835 and Te Tiriti o Waitangi / the Treaty of Waitangi 1840.

The Treaty of Waitangi Act 1975 established the Waitangi Tribunal, but this initially had very limited powers.

Because the state-owned enterprises were essentially private firms owned by the government, there was an argument that they would prevent assets which had been given by Māori for use by the state from being returned to Māori by the Waitangi Tribunal and through Treaty settlements.

This process may involve courts, the Waitangi Tribunal, or direct negotiation.

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* Treaty of Waitangi Amendment Act 1985 – extended the scope of the Waitangi Tribunal to retrospective claims dating back to the Treaty

In June 1986, the Waitangi Tribunal received the Wai 26 claim that the Treaty of Waitangi was breached by the Crown proceeding to introduce legislation related to Māori language before the delivery of the Tribunal's " Report on the Te Reo Maori Claim ", and as a consequence the Māori people would be denied their claims for radio frequencies and a television channel.

The Waitangi Tribunal amalgamated the Wai 26 with the Wai 150 claim ; with the final report of the Tribunal recommending that the Crown suspend the radio frequency tender process and proceed to negotiate with the iwi.

In November 1996, various members of Te Roroa file a claim with the Waitangi Tribunal concerning the Maunganui block, the Waipoua Forest, Lake Taharoa and surroundings, and the Waimamaku Valley in Northland.

The Wai 262 claim in the Waitangi Tribunal is a claim of rights in respect of mātauranga Māori or Māori knowledge in respect of indigenous flora and fauna.

Numerous reports by the Waitangi Tribunal have criticised Crown actions during the wars, and also found that the Māori, too, had breached the treaty.

The Waitangi Tribunal in The Te Roroa Report 1992 ( Wai 38 ) state that " fter the war in the north, government policy was to place a buffer zone of European settlement between Ngapuhi and Auckland.

The Waitangi Tribunal has argued that apart from the attack on Sentry Hill in April 1864, there was an absence of Māori aggression throughout the entire Second War, and that therefore Māori were never actually at war.

On 12 March 1863, 300 men from the 57th Regiment, led by Colonel Sir Henry James Warre, marched out to Omata to retake the land and a month later, on 4 April, Browne's successor, Governor Sir George Grey, marched to Tataraimaka with troops and built a redoubt and re-occupied the land in what the Waitangi Tribunal described as a hostile act.

" This bill eliminates all references to the expressions " the principles of the Treaty ", " the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi " and the " Treaty of Waitangi and its principles " from all New Zealand Statutes including all preambles, interpretations, schedules, regulations and other provisos included in or arising from each and every such Statute ".

The Waitangi Tribunal, in its 1996 report, also claimed the military reoccupation of Tataraimaka was a hostile act that implied war had been unilaterally resumed.

Most New Zealanders consider the Treaty of Waitangi as the founding document of the nation of New Zealand, with formal sovereignty vested in the British Crown ( the Crown in Right of New Zealand from 1947 ), but the existence of different versions of the Treaty, in both Māori and English, and its brevity, leave this subject to arguments over the preferred interpretation.

In its 1996 report on Taranaki land confiscations, the Waitangi Tribunal noted that Bryce was a Taranaki war veteran who " clearly retained his relish of warfare ... on his own admission, he had always desired a march on Parihaka in order to destroy it.

It stridently opposed the Treaty of Waitangi and was in turn frequently criticised by the Colonial Office and New Zealand Governors for its " trickery " and lies.

The New Zealand Company had long expected intervention by the British Government in its activities in New Zealand, and this finally occurred following the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi on 6 February 1840.

The Waitangi Tribunal Unit is a special jurisdiction unit of the Ministry of Justice which provides support and services necessary for the Tribunal to do its work.

A supporter of the egalitarian policies of Governor Sir George Grey, Bracken championed sovereignty for the native Māori people, and later criticised the government for what he saw to be breaches of its obligations to the Treaty of Waitangi.

On 2 July 2011 the Waitangi Tribunal released its report into the Wai 262 claim: " Ko Aotearoa Tēnei " (‘ This is Aotearoa ’ or ‘ This is New Zealand ’).

Much of the unsurety involves the reserve powers of the sovereign ; the relationship between the various regions of the Realm of New Zealand presently sharing the same sovereign ( the absence of these matters from republican arguments having been criticised as a " self-centredness of republican discussions in New Zealand "); and effects on the relationship between the Crown and Māori, specifically, the continued legal status of the Treaty of Waitangi and its claims and settlements.

Its primary focus was on matters such as the Treaty of Waitangi, but its wider platform was broadly paleoconservative or producerist.

New Zealand has stronger administrative and political recognition of the ancestral rights of its indigenous Maori population due to the Treaty of Waitangi, however the Treaty of Waitangi would continue in operation in any union, just as it has through New Zealand's development from colony to independent nation.

In a major 1996 report, the Waitangi Tribunal claimed the events at Parihaka provided a graphic display of government antagonism to any show of independence.

( This view was later upheld by the Land Claims Commission, but subsequently rejected by Governor Robert FitzRoy and, in 1996, by the Waitangi Tribunal.

The Waitangi Tribunal amalgamated the Wai 26 with the Wai 150 claim ; with the final report of the Tribunal recommending that the Crown suspend the radio frequency tender process and proceed to negotiate with the iwi.

In a 1999 report the Waitangi Tribunal declared the confiscation illegal because there was no prospect of placing settlers on the mountain.

He took pains to show Māori that he observed the terms of the Treaty of Waitangi, assuring them that their land rights would be fully recognised.

Conversely some legal documents such as the Treaty of Waitangi are internationally considered to be documents under domestic law.

In total there are nine copies of the Treaty of Waitangi including the original signed on 6 February 1840.

There are differences between the Māori and English language versions of the Treaty, and virtually since 1840 this has led to debate over exactly what was agreed to at Waitangi.

Celebrations at Waitangi often commence the previous day, 5 February, at the Ngapuhi Te Tii marae, where political dignitaries are welcomed onto the marae and hear speeches from the local iwi.

Te Tiriti ō Waitangi, Maori are represented in the PSA ( Te Pūkenga Here Tikanga Mahi ) through Te Rūnanga o Ngā Toa Āwhina – the national body representing the interests of Maori members.

Many of the arguments being used are outlined in Paul Moon's 2003 book Te Ara Ki Te Tiriti: The Path to the Treaty of Waitangi, which argued that not only did the Maori signatories have no intention of transferring sovereignty, but that at the time the British government and James Busby did not wish to acquire it and that the developments and justifications leading to the present state were later developments.

( Memorialised lands are lands owned, or formerly owned, by a State-owned enterprise or a tertiary institution, or former New Zealand Railways lands, that have a memorial ( or notation ) on their certificate of title advising that the Waitangi Tribunal may recommend that the land be returned to Māori ownership.

There are conflicting reports of when Heke signed the Treaty of Waitangi.

Two similar events are the Circle Line Pub Crawl involving London's Circle Line ( attracting expatriate New Zealanders on Waitangi Day ) and the Metro Pub Crawl from Birmingham to Wolverhampton on the Midland Metro.

Waitangi Day and ANZAC Day are always commemorated on the exact date, as they commemorate specific historical events.

These claims are based around historical possession and the Treaty of Waitangi.

Plans are ongoing to plant a grove of pohutukawa and totara trees at the summit, but concerns by local iwi over Treaty of Waitangi claims have so far prevented any actual planting, though Council is growing a number of seedlings in the hopes of reinstating a grove as soon as the treaty claims are settled.

At his last Waitangi Day speech in 1972, Porritt caused more controversy by stating that: " Maori-Pakeha relationships are being dealt with adequately through the biological process of intermarriage ".

Many of the arguments being used are outlined in Paul Moon's 2002 book Te Ara Ki Te Tiriti: The Path to the Treaty of Waitangi, which argued that not only did the Māori signatories have no intention of transferring sovereignty, but that at the time the British government and James Busby did not wish to acquire it and that the developments and justifications leading to the present state were later developments.

: Articles about the initial stages of New Zealand and Maori-British conflicts are in: Category: Treaty of Waitangi.

Te Puke is in close proximity to Tauranga, Mount Maunganui, Papamoa, and Maketu, which are all coastal towns / cities, as well as the small townships of Waitangi, Manoeka, Pongakawa and Paengaroa.

However, under British and subsequent New Zealand law, typically an iwi forms itself into a legally recognised entity, and under the Treaty of Waitangi these entities are accorded special rights and obligations under New Zealand law ... when they are recognised as tangata whenua They must have a provable relationship with a specific area of geography, and if this is acknowledged by the national or local authority, they become the legal tangata whenua.

Tangata tiriti refers to non-indigenous New Zealanders, who are in the country by virtue of the Treaty of Waitangi.