Post by Kiwi Frontline on Mar 14, 2022 2:41:02 GMT 12
POLITICAL PARTIES WEIGH IN ON MĀORI CO-GOVERNANCE MODEL FOR THREE WATERS
Local Government Minister Nanaia Mahuta hopes the co-governance model for Three Waters will help "councils and mana whenua work together for the benefit of catchments".
But the National Party is not keen on the idea and neither is ACT, with leader David Seymour describing it as "one of the most backwards steps any country can take".
National Party deputy leader Nicola Willis is not convinced.
"We know that iwi play a role already in existing water decision-making. There are ways of achieving that. But local government have been very concerned to date with the models that the Government has put forward," Willis said.
ACT wants the co-governance model dropped.
"I want all New Zealanders to be born with the same democratic right. That's what people have fought for all through history," Seymour said.
"I think the idea that we are proactively trying to introduce different sets of political rights for people based on ancestry has got to be one of the most backwards steps any country can take."
Te Pāti Māori co-leader Rawiri Waititi has warned Three Waters could become the next foreshore and seabed issue, referring to 2004 when Māori protested against proposed legislation to vest ownership of New Zealand's foreshore and seabed in the Crown......
www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/03/political-parties-weigh-in-on-m-ori-co-governance-model-for-three-waters.html
Local Government Minister Nanaia Mahuta hopes the co-governance model for Three Waters will help "councils and mana whenua work together for the benefit of catchments".
But the National Party is not keen on the idea and neither is ACT, with leader David Seymour describing it as "one of the most backwards steps any country can take".
National Party deputy leader Nicola Willis is not convinced.
"We know that iwi play a role already in existing water decision-making. There are ways of achieving that. But local government have been very concerned to date with the models that the Government has put forward," Willis said.
ACT wants the co-governance model dropped.
"I want all New Zealanders to be born with the same democratic right. That's what people have fought for all through history," Seymour said.
"I think the idea that we are proactively trying to introduce different sets of political rights for people based on ancestry has got to be one of the most backwards steps any country can take."
Te Pāti Māori co-leader Rawiri Waititi has warned Three Waters could become the next foreshore and seabed issue, referring to 2004 when Māori protested against proposed legislation to vest ownership of New Zealand's foreshore and seabed in the Crown......
www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/03/political-parties-weigh-in-on-m-ori-co-governance-model-for-three-waters.html