Point of Order: Don’t dip into Te Arawa Lakes Trust waters without brushing up on the regulations

Don’t go fishing in Lake Rotorua without checking your obligations under the Te Arawa Lakes (Fisheries) Regulations 2006.

The Crown introduced those regulations, as part of the Te Arawa Lakes Settlement Act 2006, to empower the Trustees of the Te Arawa Lakes Trust to manage the customary and recreational food gathering of included species in the Te Arawa Lakes.

Getting offside with the trust by breaching the regulations could be costly.

Point of Order: Does NZ need to be out in front of the big polluters?

Climate Change Minister James Shaw who led the NZ delegation to COP27 reckons it’s crunch time for countries to step up and take urgent action at home on global warming.

Shaw tells the world at Sharm al-Sheik NZ will do everything it can to urgently cut climate pollution and build a safer, cleaner future.

He concedes global progress is “slow”, but says: “we still have a choice about the future we want to build. Every tenth of a degree of global warming prevented matters; every tonne of pollution we cut makes a difference; every decision we take counts”.