Maori Council to take Govt to Waitangi Tribunal

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Sat, 04 Feb 2012 6:01p.m.

The Maori Council will take the Government to the Waitangi Tribunal.

The Maori Council will take the Government to the Waitangi Tribunal.

With events at Waitangi just getting underway, 3 News has learned of a major new legal challenge to be mounted against the Government's asset sales plan.

The Maori Council will take the Government to the Waitangi Tribunal, saying energy companies must not be privatised until the rights to New Zealand's fresh water are decided.

But despite politics being at the forefront of the weekend, all the tradition and ceremony will also be there as usual.

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06 Feb 2012 08:14p.m.

Wahanui wrote:

Mike B what are you talking about everything thing we have done has been benegicial to NZ we havent sold any gains we have worked hard for.EVERYTHING WE WIN WE WIN FOR NZ dont you get it.
Go the Maori Council and anyone who supports the assets remaining in NZ.Pakeha cant stop it but we can give it a damded good go.Right on Ckark! Keep it up Boyd,

05 Feb 2012 08:26p.m.

tom wrote:

Like Clarke sitting on her backside in New york.Thanks to Clarke with the help of Peters we may not have much choice in selling the land to China, FTA,MFN agreements we have with China.. Wonder if many people know we export over 10 billion dollars worth of goods to China. We may end up losing it. After all we can't have our cake and eat it to. Or we could end up in a overseas court and get sued, that came from a professor of law. New Zealand will be the laughing stock of the whole world if that happens.

05 Feb 2012 08:06p.m.

tom wrote:

Had to laugh, all these figures, the bottom line is, most people who voted, voted for National.To many People were to lazy to vote. If people don't vote they cannot complain.It was a well known fact what the nats were going to do, if many people are against asset sales, they should have voted for other parties that are aginst it. Why should maori have more say than anyone else, got me. No way should we have a government department or a political party based on race, for that matter a maori rugby and maori rugby league team. Sounds like we have apartheid in this pathetic country. Wonder how many maori protested about the apartheid carry on in South Africa.

04 Feb 2012 10:53p.m.

Boydy wrote:

The maori council are only doing for purely selfish reasons. At some stage they'll lay claim to it themselves due to that damned treaty. It's be nice if we had a non maori party, a non maori council, a non maori anything in this country would be nice. But that would be racist wouldn't it? I'm sick of maori bleating on about anything when they get everything on a plate and more. They fail because they can't forget the past. They fail because of people like Hone, Pita, Turia and Jackson telling them to be agry at the white man. They fail because they're told they're not to blame for anything by them same crowd and they blame the white man instead.
Burn that damned treaty and be done with it.
I expect this won't be printed either because some lefty censor will feel it racist!

04 Feb 2012 10:29p.m.

Peter wrote:

The NZ Maori Land Council sued the Lange government over the sale of assets in 1987 and won.(New Zealand Maori Council v AG [1987] 1 NZLR 641)

Yes the principles of the treaty needs to be included in the proposed asset sales.

Key has been given the wrong legal advice, and by repelling s(9) of the SOE act, is worse than the Seabed and Foreshore act.

Keys comment saying s(9) is irrelevant is like what Chief Justice James Prendergast said in the case Wi Parata v the Bishop of Wellington where he said that the treaty is a mere nulity.

I find it amusing that the PM has decided to go down this path of forcing Maori to relinquish their docerine of aboriginal title. Hes all smiling, rubbing noses on the media with Peter Sharples, yet he is holding behind him a huge dagger, waiting to slice Iwi in favour of oil exploration contracts.

04 Feb 2012 10:25p.m.

anne wrote:

I agree boyd,good on the maori council for taking a stand,although there are 70% of nz against the asset sales,no one is doing anything to try and stop it.
Aotearoa is worth saving from the clutches of key and his
banker mates and the chinese govt,because thats who bankrolls pengxin.
Key couldn't care less about our soverignty,he will be gone
to live in hawaii and nz will be left with no tangable assets at all.
So good on the maori council and whoever protests at waitangi.

04 Feb 2012 08:58p.m.

Clarke wrote:

John Key and his entire coalition government only received 34% of the total possible vote on election night... he has no mandate... 66 percent of the country didnt vote for him. The majority of the country dont want anything to do with any of Nationals policy.... but John Key will continue to run his government against the wishes of the majority. He has no moral or ethical backbone.

04 Feb 2012 08:50p.m.

Mike B wrote:

Wake up Boyd. Maori are trying to privatise water rights, that means you will have to pay the local tribe just to have the privilege of drinking the water out of your tap.

04 Feb 2012 08:26p.m.

Boyd wrote:

At least someone's trying to stop these awful land sales that a majority of the country both Maori and Pakeha don't want. Good on the Maori Council