A Cabinet paper from Seymour showed he wanted the principles to “assist with the interpretation” of any other legislation where principles of the Treaty would “normally be considered ...

Seymour responded to this in the Cabinet paper by saying he found it disappointing and that it was the kind of thinking the Treaty Principles Bill seeks to challenge. When the coalition agreement ...

An earlier Cabinet paper showed the bill was initially planned to be introduced ... Seymour’s bill proposes replacing the many Treaty principles that have been developed over several decades by the ...

Associate Justice Minister David Seymour has welcomed the introduction of the Treaty ... arrangements. “Cabinet has agreed to make one change to an earlier version of the principles.

Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840 ... The Waitangi Tribunal was told Cabinet would consider a paper from David Seymour on the bill on September 2, but this was then deferred to “a ...