14 February 2023
New Zealand’s Failed Experiment Highlights Voice To Parliament Dangers
“New Zealand’s failed Māori Voice to Parliament, the Waitangi Tribunal, which the Prime Minister held up as a model for Australia, has imposed dangerous policies that puts a person’s race above all other considerations in government decision making,” said John Storey, Research Fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs A new research report from the IPA, New Zealand’s Māori Voice
14 February 2023
The New Zealand Māori Voice To Parliament And What We Can Expect From Australia
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said he wants to follow the lead of New Zealand on reconciliation by implementing the Uluru Statement from the Heart. On 6 February 2020, he posted the following statement to Twitter: We can learn a lot from our mates across the ditch about reconciliation with First Nations people. New Zealand has led the way. It’s
7 December 2022
New Zealand Shows Voice To Parliament To Affect All Laws Passed
“The failed New Zealand experiment with race-based co-governance demonstrates how the Voice to Parliament will be weaponised by inner-city activists to ensure race is the primary consideration of all major policy decisions,” said John Storey, Research Fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs. The landmark IPA legal research report published today, Voice to Parliament: An Analysis of the New Zealand
7 December 2022
The Voice To Parliament – An Analysis Of The New Zealand Experience And Australia’s History Of Judicial Activism
One of the key claims made in favour of changing Australia’s Commonwealth Constitution to include an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament is that it will only be an advisory body. However, the wording of the proposed constitutional change is not clear cut in respect to what the powers of the Voice will be. This constitutional uncertainty makes
