{"id":7245,"date":"2015-08-05T12:52:12","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T23:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=7245"},"modified":"2015-08-05T12:52:12","modified_gmt":"2015-08-04T23:52:12","slug":"no-urgency-but-no-text-either","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=7245","title":{"rendered":"NO URGENCY, BUT NO TEXT EITHER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/HoneAvatar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5537\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/HoneAvatar.jpg\" alt=\"HoneAvatar\" width=\"84\" height=\"111\" \/><\/a>\u00a0Mana leader Hone Harawira<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/notext.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7246\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/notext-1024x767.jpg\" alt=\"notext\" width=\"1024\" height=\"767\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/notext-1024x767.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/notext-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/notext-119x89.jpg 119w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/notext-570x427.jpg 570w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/notext-701x525.jpg 701w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/notext-1067x799.jpg 1067w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/notext.jpg 1542w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately we\u2019re not going to get an urgency hearing\u201d said Hone Harawira, MANA leader and former Tai Tokerau MP, of the claim that government negotiations over the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) were in breach of the Treaty of Waitangi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Tribunal did note that government\u2019s consultation with Maori had been \u2018limited and selective\u2019 and that Maori had been treated more as stakeholders than as genuine Treaty partners\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey also said that the Treaty exception clause was \u2018unclear and untested\u2019 and that because they weren\u2019t allowed to see the clause itself, they couldn\u2019t tell whether or not it would actually protect Maori rights under the Treaty\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo the reality is that the Tribunal wasn\u2019t in a position to make a decent ruling because the government categorically refused to let even them see the text of the TPPA!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut it\u2019s not over yet. The Tribunal said if the TPPA deal was signed off in Hawaii they would grant an urgency hearing on the Treaty exception clause as soon as the text was released, and if the deal was delayed till after the 2016 US Presidential elections, they would consider holding a full hearing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe TPPA talks have stalled in Hawaii. That\u2019s good news. With a bit of luck, they\u2019ll die and we can get back to focussing on more important issues at home here like feeding the kids and getting people back into work in their communities\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Mana leader Hone Harawira \u201cUnfortunately we\u2019re not going to get an urgency hearing\u201d said Hone Harawira, MANA leader and former Tai Tokerau MP, of the claim that government negotiations over the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) were in breach of the Treaty of Waitangi. \u201cThe Tribunal did note that government\u2019s consultation with Maori had been \u2018limited [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":7246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7245"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7245"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7248,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7245\/revisions\/7248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}