The Hauraki Treaty settlement is an agreement between the Crown and the iwi/hapū of Hauraki to settle the Hauraki historical Treaty claims against the Crown.
The Hauraki Treaty negotiation process can be broken down into three phases
- Hauraki Collective Governance arrangements through to Hauraki Framework Agreement
- Hauraki Agreement in Principle (AIP)
- Hauraki Deed of Collective and Individual Settlement (DOS)
Hauraki Collective Governance arrangements through to Hauraki Framework Agreement
Governance Arrangements
- Designing and agreeing governance structure and name for Hauraki Collective
Framework Agreement
- Right of first refusal scope and general mechanism for operation
- Collectively held cultural redress sites, co-governance
- Key settlement assets available for collective or iwi specific acquisition
- Generic themes for Historical Account
- Flagging there will be collective/iwi specific commercial redress
- Flagging there will be collective/iwi specific quantum
Hauraki Agreement in Principle
- Collective/iwi specific quantum amounts and commercial redress
- Wāhi tapu and other culturally significant redress for iwi or groups of iwi
- Identification of commercial assets available for iwi specific or collective acquisition
- Iwi specific themes for Historical Account in addition to generic themes
Hauraki Deed of Collective and Individual Settlement
- Generic and tailored historical account, Crown acknowledgments and Crown apology
- Collective quantum and iwi specific quantum amounts
- Commercial assets available for purchase
- Detailed scope and operation of right of first refusal
- Collective cultural redress
- Iwi specific cultural redress
- Collective Post Settlement Governance Entity Structure(s) with any agreed co-governance/ co-management agreement that includes DOC, TLA’s Water Authorities and others
To enable the Hauraki Collective to meet these milestones a Hauraki Collective Strategic Business Plan has been established.