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Friday, August 29, 2025

Bob Edlin: Questions are raised about Maori reliance on customary food-gathering.....


Questions are raised about Maori reliance on customary food-gathering – but a Govt MP is more concerned about T-shirts

Points of order peppered proceedings in Parliament when Māori Party MP Takuta Ferris was raising questions about the Supreme Court ruling that riverbeds can be included in Māori customary marine title orders, if other legal tests are met.

As Politik’s Richard Harman noted, the country’s most senior Māori judge, Sir Joe Williams, was one of the four Supreme Court judges who arrived at that decision.