The Treaty Principles Bill: Irrational responses to a non-event.
From Crash@21:1/5 to All on Tue Sep 10 08:35:03 2024
There is so much irrational discussion on this. The Treaty Principles
Bill will be given a first reading in Parliament and will then go to a
select committee to hear public submissions. It will not go any
further in this Parliamentary term.
Those that oppose this bill are simply irrational. The rational
response to this bill is to ignore it. Ignoring it will keep it out
of the public eye with minimal debate. Instead we are seeing days
after day of media exposure which should surely be the opposite of
what opponents of the Bill would like to see.
The background to this is that agreeing to how this Bill is being
dealt with was part of the coalition agreement between National and
ACT. Because of it we have a Government that despite the presence of
NZ First has proven relatively stable so far. The alternative would
have been no government, as neither National nor Labour (as the two
biggest parties) could have 'commanded the confidence of the House (of Representatives). A Labour/Greens/Maori party arrangement is still
falling short and adding NZF or ACT was never going to be possible.
So my message of rationality to this Bill is to ignore it. That would
keep it out of public debate as much as possible. There is also no
rational sense in making submissions on a bill the Government does not
support because there is no point to submitting.
I don't know what happens to Bills that do not make it to a second
reading during a term of Parliament. Are there any other such Bills?