Fifty years of the Waitangi Tribunal

Fifty years of the Waitangi Tribunal

The first chair of the Waitangi Tribunal, Chief Judge Eddie Durie, and Tribunal member Paul Temm QC, visit a kōhanga reo at Waiwhetū in Lower Hutt in 1985. (Photo taken by John Nicholson, 26 June 1985, Evening Post Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library.) This week marks 50 years since the establishment of the Waitangi Tribunal.  Here, Carwyn Jones looks at the Tribunal’s history and remit at a time when it’s under “sustained attack”.   On Octob…