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What if the Waitangi tribunal…
…rejects the current claims? Would the Maori Council accept those rulings? John Key has said that the Government could ignore the ruling of the Waitangi Tribunal. That’s correct, the tribunal has been...
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Who owns the rain?
Peter Dunne addresses this on Twitter: @PeterDunneMP Maori freshwater claims beg question of who owns the rain? Water and air belong to all of us, equally and indivisibly. In a seemingly conciliatory...
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Maori Law and Politics view on water, assets and tribunals
An excellent analysis and summary of the asset sales, water rights and Waitangi Tribunal issues by Joshua Hitchcock on his ‘Maori Law and Politics’ blog, including: Do Māori have rights to the water...
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Sykes v Key on water and coalitions
Annette Sykes has warned John Key to stick to his knitting: PM warned to leave water rights issues to the lawyers Maori rights lawyer Annette Sykes has suggested Prime Minister John Key should either...
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Maori trying to protect that common interest in the water for us all?
And interesting explanation in the ODT by Dr Mick Strack, lecturer in land tenure at the School of Surveying, University of Otago, on the water rights wrangling: History repeating itself in water...
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Who’s water hui?
A ‘national’ water hui has been called for: King Tuheitia has convened a national hui on water rights after the Government ruled out responding to a Waitangi Tribunal request for it to do so. (Key...
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Maori Water King beheads Queen?
Are Maori effectively becoming New Zealand’s upper house, with a post-parliament say on anything that interests them? On paper Queen Elizabeth is the highest authority in the country. But that monarchy...
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Maori ‘speak as one’ on water – what about the rest of us?
For the moment at least Maoridom seems to have successfuly combined in a powerful voice to speak as one on water rights. Maori speak as one on water rights They are speaking as one on what they believe...
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Water rights for all
If you agree with this… We believe that water is a universal resource and that everyone in New Zealand should share any rights to use water, and everyone should be able to have a say in how our water...
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Dunne: Maori and water rights
Peter Dunne quoted: While Maori do have rights with respect to water interests, they are not, nor can ever be, exclusive rights. Were they to be so, the logical conclusion must be that all New...
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