Julian Batchelor Treaty Principles Oral Submission final.

The source document for the Treaty Principles Bill is the Treaty so my submission will focus on the Treaty. The Treaty has five parts: A Preamble Article 1 Article 2 Article 3 An A@irmation. In this submission I draw on facts and quotes from historians, and all quotes are academically referenced. Much of what I present today is the British perspective on the Treaty, a perspective drowned out by a cacophony of Maori activist voices in New Zealand. It’s time to restore a more balanced perspective. I am using the final English draft of the Treaty written by James Busby and in his handwriting. Governor Hobson made it clear in his journals that the final English draft of Treaty was written by Busby and was in his handwriting. Yet the Treaty in English in the Treaty of Waitangi Act 1975 schedule one is not in the handwriting of James Busby. It’s in the handwriting of someone called James Freeman. Which means what? The government has the wrong English version of the Treaty in the Treaty of Waitangi Act 1975. The explains why there is a big di@erence between the so called English and Maori versions. In turn, this has given rise to the need to invent principles to reconcile the di@erences. There would be no need for so called “principles of the Treaty” if the true bone fide English final draft of the Treaty was in the 1975 Treaty of Waitangi Act because this final English draft and the Treaty in Maori are perfectly aligned. That is to say, if the courts, or Maori, or MPs, or the public wanted to know with 100% accuracy what the Treaty in Maori says, they would only need to read this final English draft. If you want to know what the Maori chiefs read, understood, and signed o@ on in 1840, then read this final English draft. If you want to fix the issue of Treaty principles once and for all, then for God’s sake, use the final English draft of the Treaty in the Treaty of Waitangi Act 1975 as the o@icial Treaty in English. Amend the Act.