The Treaty of Waitangi looks set to be struck off the NZ AIDS Foundation's constitution, following it's Annual General Meeting on Saturday. NZAF members decided at the meeting to remove all references to the Treaty in it's constituation, and instead make a ‘commitment to biculturalism and working with Maori'. Board chair Jeremy Lambert admits the board is going to need far more clarification from the NZAF's membership as to exactly what the AGM decision means. “I'm fairly uncertain over what support for this option means, and I think we'll have to go back to our membership and do quite a bit of work around what a commitment to biculturalism specifically means, and working with Maori,” he says. “I don't know if that was intended by our membership, but I would argue that a commitment to biculturalism means a stronger emphasis on things Maori than we had in the past by just by referencing the Treaty.” Ref: GayNZ.com (m)
Credit: GayNZ.com News Staff
First published: Monday, 27th November 2006 - 12:00pm