Michael Laws exposes the co-governance charade and $8m taxpayer iwi funding that has gone into the Otago marine reserves
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There are only two places in the world that this 'charade' could happen - New Zealand and Disneyland
What is mostly unknown is the NgāiTahu involvement with the Seabed and Foreshore Takutai Moana process that is wending its way through the High Court process.
The process is ably assisted by a domineering and frankly abusive assistance from the legal profession representing Ngāi Tahu and Crown Law whom the Judge shall I say, agreed with .
Ngāi Tahu who have claimed almost all of the South Island coast and including the Auckland islands which are subantarctic islands a considerable distance from New Zealand in future applications that have not been heard yet .
At the same time Ngāi Tahu are proposing a huge salmon farm in Foveaux strait adjacent to the north western corner of Stewart Island quite separate from the Seabed and Foreshore hearing .
Local southern Iwi are representing another marine sanctuary around Ruapuke Island in Foveaux strait which Ngai Tahu supported in court and to which the Iwi are also requesting a protected area around Ruapuke Island for themselves .
To say it is a rort is truthful because the applicants are granted huge legal costs that are unavailable for any contrary submission or appearance in the court case .
I know I appeared alone at the hearings as an individual .
Why does the He Puapua process( from co - governance to tribal rule+ final veto) now seem increasingly inevitable? At a guess, all political parties are supporting this process because - behind the scenes- there is mounting pressure from Iwi and co to do this - or unrest/ violence will ensue. No politician wishes to be associated with this step and its irreversible consequences..
If voters knew this, if it got the coverage it deserves in the MSM people would be so so so angry.
What is wrong with this country. This is just so wrong. When did equality and democracy become a bad thing. Someone has to do something
Basil did not say but the "domineering and frankly abusive assistance from the legal profession representing Ngāi Tahu" was, unless I have it totally wrong, some bloke by the name of Finlayson who as a previous Attorney General greatly participated in the giving away of NZ assets to Iwi interests and who continues his "good work" of screwing NZ over. Nice that!
So glad I left NZ and no longer pay tax to such a banana republic. It's the ultimate mob shakedown. Happening everyday because "the passionless people" are too weak to stand up to these grifters. Very sad.
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