Post by Kiwi Frontline on Sept 23, 2016 17:05:59 GMT 12
CAMPAIGN TO PROTECT MĀORI LAND FROM PUBLIC WORKS ACT NOT OVER
On Wednesday night my Members’ Bill to stop the Public Works Act taking any more Māori land was voted down by the National Government. This is not the end of the campaign to raise awareness that the Public Works Act can still take Māori land.
he First Reading speeches from the Government were generally pretty ghastly, calling My Bill “separatist’ and ‘tokenistic’. But the opportunity now exists to persuade the Māori Affairs Select Committee to look at the issues behind the Bill and the petition and hear the voices of tangata whenua. ...
blog.greens.org.nz/2016/09/23/campaign-to-protect-maori-land-from-public-works-act-not-over/
On Wednesday night my Members’ Bill to stop the Public Works Act taking any more Māori land was voted down by the National Government. This is not the end of the campaign to raise awareness that the Public Works Act can still take Māori land.
he First Reading speeches from the Government were generally pretty ghastly, calling My Bill “separatist’ and ‘tokenistic’. But the opportunity now exists to persuade the Māori Affairs Select Committee to look at the issues behind the Bill and the petition and hear the voices of tangata whenua. ...
blog.greens.org.nz/2016/09/23/campaign-to-protect-maori-land-from-public-works-act-not-over/