I do try to accept such changes even though in 2024 I have lived half of the time since the Treaty was signed and the Queen’s writ became the law. And that law was set down as applying to all the “PEOPLE OF NEW ZEALAND”. I have respected that law all of my life. But I do have difficulty with the changes in our administration which have occurred without any public discussion or semblance of due legal process.
One example of our “Whuckedness” is the collapse of our system of ownership of property. The established method of determining ownership is to refer to the documentation held by Land Information New Zealand. This is definitive and distinct from the pre-1840 method of determining ownership by conflict.
Also it is established that we are a Secular country which means that the religious beliefs of any of the citizens have no place in our ownership or taxation structure unless they meet the conditions for registration as a religion for some taxation purposes.
Dr Newman’s article, “Mana or Money”in the
NZPCR newsletter of 28 April,2024 gives a number of examples of stand-over
tactics employed by Iwi organisations to delay ownership changes until large
payments have been made to them. Another example is detailed at:
https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/national/backflip-by-iwi-shocks-groups-opposed-to-dome-valley-dump/
“Here a consent
was obtained from a blocking Iwi by
“including a return of 1060ha of Waste Management landholdings once the site is
no longer required, $2m to construct six homes nearby, and a $10m environment
fund should the river be exposed to risk.”
Other Iwi claim not to have been consulted.
These are all instances of the way in which the infection of “Maori Mana” which has destroyed the Labour Party “gazumps” all of the legal processes which may have to be endured before the Iwi issues even emerge.
The agreements between the Parties forming our Coalition Government do not address this problem directly and it is essential that we reinstate proper and visible workable legal processes concerning property rights. It should come within David Seymour’s portfolio as Minister for Regulation.
Failing such a re-introduction of actual defined laws and procedures I doubt that there are many investors who will continue to seek to deal with the uncertainties that currently afflict any development involving the purchase of property. Especially as that uncertainty will again apply if they wish to divest themselves of the property whether or not they have completed their development.
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Perce Harpham, a retired businessman, was a pioneer of the New Zealand computer industry.
6 comments:
Lets drop the letter f from the NZ alphabet. Then English as used in NZ can look more like maori, which of course never had an alphabet. Then look at what other letters and composite letters ( eg ph)can be removed. And adjust pronounciation so it has maori resonance.
New Zealand, like the rest of the ‘democratic’ west, is whucked alright Perce.
The sheep spend their whole lives fearing the wolf, only to be eaten by the shepherd. Once you understand this statement the game changes and you start to understand politics.
Yes our nation is whucked!
We get "Fonganoowee" instead of Wanganui.
These name changers need to be told to Far Cough !!
Maori want to own NZ by 2040
You're right Doug, but for a moment there I got confused and thought you were referring to Phil Goff. But then it dawned on me, far get!!
What the whuck (wtw) is happenning to the name of
Otago University ?
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