Post by Kiwi Frontline on Feb 29, 2016 17:40:52 GMT 12
Māori criticise land law consultation
The government has wrapped up a consultation process over a proposed law aimed at giving Māori more say over what to do with their communally-owned land.
Māori own 5 percent of New Zealand's land mass and much of it is underutilised and in multiple titles.
Māori believe they come from the land and land has always been a big issue, with land sparking the New Zealand Wars and Dame Whina Cooper marching the length of the country for land in 1975.
Over the past two years the Crown has been on a consultation roadshow seeking Māori land owner's views on land laws.
The law administers and protects a little over 1.4 million hectares of Aotearoa. But it's not that simple: that land is sliced up into 27,000 titles with 2.3 million owner interests - that's about 85 owners per title.
At a Whangarei meeting, Rotorua lawyer Annette Sykes called for a number of resolutions.
"I'm asking this hui to put this resolution that any proposal to do with Māori land must entrench the Treaty of Waitangi as the basis from which Māori land will be managed."
Māori Council spokesperson Maanu Paul said the consultation process had been woeful. He said the government was eyeing up Maori land for its own benefit…
www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/297698/maori-criticise-land-law-consultation
The government has wrapped up a consultation process over a proposed law aimed at giving Māori more say over what to do with their communally-owned land.
Māori own 5 percent of New Zealand's land mass and much of it is underutilised and in multiple titles.
Māori believe they come from the land and land has always been a big issue, with land sparking the New Zealand Wars and Dame Whina Cooper marching the length of the country for land in 1975.
Over the past two years the Crown has been on a consultation roadshow seeking Māori land owner's views on land laws.
The law administers and protects a little over 1.4 million hectares of Aotearoa. But it's not that simple: that land is sliced up into 27,000 titles with 2.3 million owner interests - that's about 85 owners per title.
At a Whangarei meeting, Rotorua lawyer Annette Sykes called for a number of resolutions.
"I'm asking this hui to put this resolution that any proposal to do with Māori land must entrench the Treaty of Waitangi as the basis from which Māori land will be managed."
Māori Council spokesperson Maanu Paul said the consultation process had been woeful. He said the government was eyeing up Maori land for its own benefit…
www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/297698/maori-criticise-land-law-consultation