https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/507023/flaws-in-crown-s-land-legislation-caused-taihape-landlocking-waitangi-tribunal

Hard to understand why this took so long to fix.
And a "Related Story" from before Christmas: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/504282/waitangi-tribunal-to-present-historic-report-into-land-loss-treaty-breaches-suffered-by-ngapuhi

Again good progress, but the story also included this:

"Stage 1, which was completed in 2014, found the Northern chiefs did
not cede sovereignty when they signed He Whakaputanga (The Declaration
of Independence) in 1835 or Te Tiriti o Waitangi (The Treaty of
Waitangi) five years later.

The potentially far-reaching constitutional implications of that
finding have not been addressed by any government since."

Many would dispute that this has not been addressed since 2014 - some
of the co-governance arrangements put in place under Chris Finlayson anticipated and acknowledged this reality - it is after based on
historical fact identified in the 1970's, and applies to the majority
of tribes who signed the the Maori language version of the Treaty.

That reality is at least partially understood by the current National
Party, who will not support past the first reading the ACT bill
seeking to essentially set aside much of the Treaty. That is a common
sense decision; sadly such decisions are made harder by the pandering
to nutter groups by some parties to seek votes at the last election.

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