Activity associated with the submission, negotiation, and settlement of Maori land claims related to the Treaty of Waitangi.
‘the booming Treaty Industry was decried in the country's leading newspaper’
‘The number of bright young Maori lawyers who I now see working in the Treaty industry is a tragedy for this country.’
‘Owning up to its own past conduct in promoting the burgeoning Treaty industry is well overdue.’
‘The target market for this speech is, in fact, New Zealanders who are asking where this Treaty industry is taking us.’
‘For the past 16 years, we have warned about separatism and the Treaty industry.’
‘He had a clear date in mind to close the Treaty industry.’
‘He didn't even try to defend the policies of overly generous welfare, underfunding of police, inadequate sentences for violent crime, and the Treaty industry.’
‘Most people want to settle past grievances, but contemporary claims make them feel that the Treaty industry is never going to end.’
‘They both have said that they are not tackling the really big myth, the really big fake, in this whole Treaty industry.’
‘Our position on the Treaty industry is that it is unravelling the social fabric and cohesion of this country.’
‘It may be simple to pretend that the Treaty industry was a highly principled and necessary process.’
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