The Government promised to “replace” or “repeal” references to the Principles of the Treaty. Now they’ve "made decisions", but when will they action them?
Before the election, and in formal coalition agreements, the Government committed to fixing vague and open-ended Treaty clauses in law. A review was commissioned. A report was delivered. And now decisions have been made behind closed doors.
But the public still hasn’t seen:
The report
The full recommendations
The list of laws being changed
The Government didn’t just hint at change, it committed to it as part of forming Government.
The coalition agreement includes
commitments to:
We need to remind them that making promises
isn’t enough. They must deliver.
The reason we are seeing this being actioned now is because Hobson's Pledge supporters spoke up. We shared a letter with you from the 30th of March where Minister Paul Goldsmith told one of our supporters that he "does not intend to release the report at this time". Mere weeks after we all spoke up they are now taking action. But now is not the time to let up.