KEY INSIGHTS
Based on this research by Horizon and commissioned by the Human Rights Commission:

  • No organisation is trusted by more than 50% of the population to provide accurate information on the Treaty/Te Tiriti.
  • MPs at 7% and News media at 6% are trusted less than Advocacy/activist groups or organisations at 10%, and only slightly more than social media at 5%
  • Political parties are trusted by 4% 

KEY QUESTIONS

  1. Given that most of our information on the Treaty/Te Tiriti comes from politicians and news media, are you concerned by this lack of trust?
  2. Is it problematic that no organisation has more than 50% of the trust of Kiwis?
  3. In general, how do we resolve disagreements around the Treaty/Te Tiriti to achieve greater social unity in New Zealand?

HAVE YOUR SAY


FULL DATA ANALYSIS
Please contact us if you would like the full data set and research.

ADDITIONAL NOTES:

  • From Horizon’s Report:
    • “Respondents were shown a list of sources and asked to select all of those they would trust to provide accurate information about the Treaty/Te Tiriti.
    • The most trusted source is The National Library of New Zealand (45%). It displays the original Treaty and Te Tiriti texts.
    • Other most trusted sources of accurate information are:
      • The Waitangi Tribunal – 36%
      • Books, websites, podcasts, etc that cover New Zealand history – 34%
      • Educational institutions (e.g. schools/universities) – 26%
      • Te Kāhui Tika Tangata Human Rights Commission – 25%.
    • The least trusted sources are:
      • Bloggers – 2%
      • Political parties – 4%
      • Social media – 5%
      • News media – 6%.”
  • We have ordered the graph from most to least trusted source, except for Other which we’ve left at the bottom. We do not know if respondents were able to list their Other response.
  • For the colours, we have used:
    • Black for the graph as New Zealand’s national colour.
    • Red to highlight the political and news media results since we felt they were a key insight. Red is a common colour used in Maoridom, so we felt it was a good choice for a second contrasting colour.
  • Horizon Research’s fieldwork dates were November 2-7, and their sample size was 1,076 respondents overall. Only voters 18+ were surveyed.
  • This report also asked many other questions. See SOURCE below for the link.
  • All numbers are provisional and subject to revision.

Thank you to the Factors who helped pull this together.

SOURCE:

Research Report = https://tikatangata.org.nz/cms/assets/Horizon-Research-Te-Tiriti-o-Waitangi-results-for-Te-Kahui-Tika-Tangata.pdf

Data published by The Human Rights Commission
(c) Crown Copyright
Licensed for use under the creative commons attribution licence (BY) 4.0

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