Duncan Garner: Kiwi youtubers shut down by local iwi

Taupo district council is upgrading its joint agreement with locally iwi Ngāti Tūwharetoa to give them even more powers, more rights and more influence. It's been kept from the public until yesterday.

Iwi are extorting people already and using their links with Council to ban certain activities, and to charge them through the nose for access to certain rivers.

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Mike Butler: Taupo tribe loses $29m

“Bad investments and bailouts” have wiped almost half the value off Taupo tribe Tuwharetoa’s $66-million share of the “Treelord’s” treaty settlement, the Dominion Post reported today. (1) Ngati Tuwharetoa is the second tribe to admit to losing millions in settlement spoils. About a year ago, Taranaki's Ngati Tama reported it lost its $14.5-million payout it received in 2003, also in “bad investments”.