Changes to co-governance was not in their list of suggestions
It beggars belief that out of the 88,000 New Zealanders that bothered to make their voices heard that co-governance wasn't high on the list of concerns.
But as I said on the Friday drive show, the lady is not for turning. Co-governance appears to be a hill that this Labour Government is prepared to die on.
But as I also said on Friday, co-governance should be the least of your worries if you're concerned with creeping socialism.
The Three Waters reform suggested is property theft and that's the reason that Phil Goff was against it and had to be bought off.
This Government wants to seize assets paid for by ratepayers, amalgamate them and then borrow off them, so that funding for water stays off the Governments and Councils books. It's blatant nationalisation by a left wing government
It's like needing to do urgent repairs on the house but you have no money. So you take your neighbour's house and use it as equity to borrow money to fix your place. It's just wrong.
But this is happening because the deferred maintenance and investment has become so huge that we don't have enough money to fix it.
Meanwhile, National MP Simon Watts told TVNZ’s Q+A on Sunday that the party agrees there needs to be reform, but it opposes the Government's current proposals. So Jack Tame pressed Watts pretty hard on what National’s alternative model would be. Watts said National would reveal its policy closer to the election.
Frankly that's not good enough. If Labour's dodgy scheme is the only game on the table then it will limp across the line.
And reform is needed.
Today the front page of the Wairarapa Times Age reports that close to half of all drinking water in the region is lost in leaks before it even gets to the tap. Meanwhile the region is booming with new houses.
Imagine if you went to fill up your car and only half of it made it into the tank
You wouldn't tolerate it.
It has to be fixed.
But as I also said on Friday, co-governance should be the least of your worries if you're concerned with creeping socialism.
The Three Waters reform suggested is property theft and that's the reason that Phil Goff was against it and had to be bought off.
This Government wants to seize assets paid for by ratepayers, amalgamate them and then borrow off them, so that funding for water stays off the Governments and Councils books. It's blatant nationalisation by a left wing government
It's like needing to do urgent repairs on the house but you have no money. So you take your neighbour's house and use it as equity to borrow money to fix your place. It's just wrong.
But this is happening because the deferred maintenance and investment has become so huge that we don't have enough money to fix it.
Meanwhile, National MP Simon Watts told TVNZ’s Q+A on Sunday that the party agrees there needs to be reform, but it opposes the Government's current proposals. So Jack Tame pressed Watts pretty hard on what National’s alternative model would be. Watts said National would reveal its policy closer to the election.
Frankly that's not good enough. If Labour's dodgy scheme is the only game on the table then it will limp across the line.
And reform is needed.
Today the front page of the Wairarapa Times Age reports that close to half of all drinking water in the region is lost in leaks before it even gets to the tap. Meanwhile the region is booming with new houses.
Imagine if you went to fill up your car and only half of it made it into the tank
You wouldn't tolerate it.
It has to be fixed.
Andrew Dickens is a broadcaster with Newstalk ZB.
3 comments:
There's no doubt that some reform is needed, but this most certainly isn't the best solution, indeed, if anything, it couldn't be more expensive.
All the stuff about ownership of the assets and financing etc, while important, is quite peripheral and superfluous to the the huge elephant in the room, which is the unjustified, unmandated co-governance. And if you don't appreciate what the problem is there, and the truly HUGE costs and unwieldy, false, and unjustified bureaucracy that such creates, I suggest you read what Graham Adams, Thomas Cranmer, Muriel Newman, Frank Newman and Michael Bassett have posted on this site about same. Make no mistake, it's a RORT. And a massively expensive one, designed to make a few Maori elite very rich and powerful at everyone else's expense.
Dear Mr. Dickens,
Thank you for the fine and cogent analysis.
A slight amendment however is in order.
After many months of tweaking and 88,000+ submissions (which they mostly didn't read), the revised 3 Waters bill is now public.
Only its not 3 Waters any more, its now 5 Waters. It now encompasses ALL water including coastal and geothermal. According to Mahuta, the Maori "World View" doesn't distinguish between different kinds of waters.
Have a look at #4 on this page:
https://www.legislation.govt.nz/bill/government/2022/0136/latest/LMS677447.html?search=ts_act%40bill%40regulation%40deemedreg_water+services+bill_resel_25_a&p=1
Te Mana o te Wai (roughly the mana of the water), refers to "statements issued by iwi and other Maori groups that have ANY interest in water, even if the water is not in their own area. These statements must be taken into account by the proposed water entities when making any decisions. These statements are only allowed to originate from Maori groups. These statements can be about anything including economic, cultural, social, impacts on Maori that Maori feel are relevant (not just nuts and bolts of infrastructure).
Not one word from mainstream media about this, which is in effect a brand new Treaty Settlement by stealth.
The fact that National selected Potaka as candidate for West Hamilton seems a clear indication they have no radical intentions on the maori takeover front.
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