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Speaker 1: Now the way Tangy Tribunal strikes again at a time

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Speaker 1: when the office looks that actually you know, looks after

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Speaker 1: the money that gets handed out to the mari to

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Speaker 1: head off to court. They're in real trouble financially because

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Speaker 1: they've basically run out of money. The Tribunal is busy,

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Speaker 1: though at the same time pumping out report after report,

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Speaker 1: costing the Lord knows how much to achieve virtually nothing.

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Speaker 1: The latest report deals with the government's actions around tomorrow's

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Speaker 1: schools review, in which the Tribunal has decided they breached

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Speaker 1: treaty principles. Now, the report, by the way, is a

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Speaker 1: first in the sense it's printed entirely in Maori. There

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Speaker 1: are English versions of chapters three through seven apparently, which

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Speaker 1: is very nice of them. But the approach gives you

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Speaker 1: some indication of where their heads and the world viewer

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Speaker 1: is at. It also deals with the review that happened

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Speaker 1: over the period twenty eighteen to twenty twenty two. So

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Speaker 1: a couple of things about that. That was another government.

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Speaker 1: That government is no longer running the place, so what

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Speaker 1: was it the Tribunal was expecting labor to do about all?

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Speaker 1: The second fairly significant point is that not only does

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Speaker 1: it deal with the government that no longer exists, it,

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Speaker 1: like all its other reports, is not by un In

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Speaker 1: other words, it's an opinion and that's about it. So

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Speaker 1: given what we saw last week from the government with

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Speaker 1: the customary rights decision by the Court of Appeal, which

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Speaker 1: is an actual court that makes binding decisions, you got

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Speaker 1: to wonder just how hard the Tribunal is pushing the

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Speaker 1: envelope and asking for trouble. All of this, of course,

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Speaker 1: is taxpayer funded, and in a country that is less

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Speaker 1: than no money and the purse strings are constantly looking

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Speaker 1: to be tightened, how much longer can urgent hearings be

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Speaker 1: held that offer taxpayer funded opinions with little of any

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Speaker 1: standing and deal to a time that has passed with

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Speaker 1: absolutely no chance of anything coming out of it at all.

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Speaker 1: The tribunal fifty years ago, set up to deal with

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Speaker 1: historic grievance, made some sense and did some good work

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Speaker 1: and righted some very large wrongs. The modern day whack

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Speaker 1: a mole report gravy train isn't so inspiring. For more

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