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PETERS: “LOSING OUR BIRTHRIGHT”
Sunday, 25 July 2010, 10:51 am
Speech: New Zealand First Party
24TH JULY 2010; 1PM
(Excerpts from full speech, link below)
Now to the foreshore and seabed, a priceless jewel now owned by all the people of New Zealand in the form of the Crown.
You see our sovereignty over our waters is about to change as well.
The most basic fact of all is that today the foreshore and seabed is owned by the Crown on behalf of all New Zealanders.
This has always been the legal situation and confirmed by acts of Parliament.
Let us be very clear.
The 2004 Foreshore and Seabed legislation did not take one square metre of property off anybody - it simply confirmed that ALL New Zealanders owned the foreshore and seabed.
This ownership extended to everything – including mineral rights – and any benefits commercial or otherwise were supposed to go to the people.
The foreshore and seabed legislation does not include the fish in the water. They are covered by Fisheries Law. They are a separate issue.
But soon the foreshore and seabed will belong to “nobody”.
New Zealanders will lose much of their birthright in a cynical ploy to keep the National government in power.
Gradually this part of New Zealand will be opened to claims of customary title and general Treaty claims.
The Maori Land Court can make customary title into freehold title.
The purpose of the Maori Land Act, which the court administers, is to "promote the retention of (Maori) customary land in the hands of its owners, their whanau, and their hapu, and to facilitate the occupation, development, and utilisation of that land for the benefit of its owners". That is fine for the land.
But what do proposed changes mean for the Foreshore and Seabed?
It means that existing Crown ownership of the foreshore and seabed will pass into the history books.
Much of New Zealand’s foreshore and seabed will be effectively privatised and pass into the hands of one group of New Zealanders – courtesy of the Maori Land Court.
It is the biggest change to publicly owned property in our recent history.
Where customary title is not granted, coastal Maori may gain control by rights of veto or access.
And sadly – there's more.
What happens to the wealth of minerals, oil, and gas below the foreshore and seabed?
The National Party is dreaming if they think their changes will not eventually lead to much of the foreshore and seabed being controlled by coastal corporate Maori and warring iwi factions who will spend the next hundred years fighting over it and lodging countless Treaty claims.
If the current trend is not checked we can see a day in the future where many New Zealanders will be working for foreign owned farms, foreign owned businesses and for Maori corporate coastal interests.
This issue is not the fault of ordinary Maori.
In just 20 years the majority of Maori fishing benefits have already passed into Non Maori hands.
If you are Maori, put your hand up.
Which one of you got even one snapper from the process?
You have been deceived and lied to about ownership of the foreshore and seabed.
There has never been a court ruling that said Maori owned the foreshore and seabed. Nearly all of our country's 200 mile limit came to us by International Treaty.
The court judgment in the Ngati Apa case, in Marlborough, said that some Maori might have a case but it could not think of any case that might succeed.
Ngati Apa’s case should have been fixed. But not this way.
Ordinary Maori will get nothing from the new property grab – the spoils will go to the unelected leaders and fatcats.
Do not think for one minute that public access to the beaches, the foreshore and seabed will not change.
It will change under race-based private ownership.
There will be no public consultation.
There will be nobody representing the public interest at the Maori Land Court.
And another fact that everybody keeps brushing under the carpet.
The Maori Land Court judge who first came up with this ownership is now a high up official in the Maori Party and its main adviser on the foreshore and seabed.
New Zealanders protested against mining in our conservation estate.
National's proposals for mineral exploitation in our state parks are dwarfed by the race-based privatisation of our foreshore and seabed.
You are simply not being told the truth about this issue.
Because there is a worst case scenario that nobody dares talk about in public. And that is who will eventually own the foreshore and seabed.
If a government is stupid and treasonous enough to allow the sale of prime dairy farms to Chinese interests, it will most certainly allow chunks of the coast and seabed to be sold off.
ONCE IT IS PRIVATISED IT WILL BE GONE FOREVER.
And only Maori will be permitted, under law, to take part in this privatisation.
Then, the National government allowed the Maori Party co-leader to sneak off to the United Nations to sign a declaration on indigenous peoples' rights.
Previous governments had been advised not to sign this declaration because it opened the door for separatist decisions at every level of government.
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1007/S00302.htm
Sunday, 25 July 2010, 10:51 am
Speech: New Zealand First Party
24TH JULY 2010; 1PM
(Excerpts from full speech, link below)
Now to the foreshore and seabed, a priceless jewel now owned by all the people of New Zealand in the form of the Crown.
You see our sovereignty over our waters is about to change as well.
The most basic fact of all is that today the foreshore and seabed is owned by the Crown on behalf of all New Zealanders.
This has always been the legal situation and confirmed by acts of Parliament.
Let us be very clear.
The 2004 Foreshore and Seabed legislation did not take one square metre of property off anybody - it simply confirmed that ALL New Zealanders owned the foreshore and seabed.
This ownership extended to everything – including mineral rights – and any benefits commercial or otherwise were supposed to go to the people.
The foreshore and seabed legislation does not include the fish in the water. They are covered by Fisheries Law. They are a separate issue.
But soon the foreshore and seabed will belong to “nobody”.
New Zealanders will lose much of their birthright in a cynical ploy to keep the National government in power.
Gradually this part of New Zealand will be opened to claims of customary title and general Treaty claims.
The Maori Land Court can make customary title into freehold title.
The purpose of the Maori Land Act, which the court administers, is to "promote the retention of (Maori) customary land in the hands of its owners, their whanau, and their hapu, and to facilitate the occupation, development, and utilisation of that land for the benefit of its owners". That is fine for the land.
But what do proposed changes mean for the Foreshore and Seabed?
It means that existing Crown ownership of the foreshore and seabed will pass into the history books.
Much of New Zealand’s foreshore and seabed will be effectively privatised and pass into the hands of one group of New Zealanders – courtesy of the Maori Land Court.
It is the biggest change to publicly owned property in our recent history.
Where customary title is not granted, coastal Maori may gain control by rights of veto or access.
And sadly – there's more.
What happens to the wealth of minerals, oil, and gas below the foreshore and seabed?
The National Party is dreaming if they think their changes will not eventually lead to much of the foreshore and seabed being controlled by coastal corporate Maori and warring iwi factions who will spend the next hundred years fighting over it and lodging countless Treaty claims.
If the current trend is not checked we can see a day in the future where many New Zealanders will be working for foreign owned farms, foreign owned businesses and for Maori corporate coastal interests.
This issue is not the fault of ordinary Maori.
In just 20 years the majority of Maori fishing benefits have already passed into Non Maori hands.
If you are Maori, put your hand up.
Which one of you got even one snapper from the process?
You have been deceived and lied to about ownership of the foreshore and seabed.
There has never been a court ruling that said Maori owned the foreshore and seabed. Nearly all of our country's 200 mile limit came to us by International Treaty.
The court judgment in the Ngati Apa case, in Marlborough, said that some Maori might have a case but it could not think of any case that might succeed.
Ngati Apa’s case should have been fixed. But not this way.
Ordinary Maori will get nothing from the new property grab – the spoils will go to the unelected leaders and fatcats.
Do not think for one minute that public access to the beaches, the foreshore and seabed will not change.
It will change under race-based private ownership.
There will be no public consultation.
There will be nobody representing the public interest at the Maori Land Court.
And another fact that everybody keeps brushing under the carpet.
The Maori Land Court judge who first came up with this ownership is now a high up official in the Maori Party and its main adviser on the foreshore and seabed.
New Zealanders protested against mining in our conservation estate.
National's proposals for mineral exploitation in our state parks are dwarfed by the race-based privatisation of our foreshore and seabed.
You are simply not being told the truth about this issue.
Because there is a worst case scenario that nobody dares talk about in public. And that is who will eventually own the foreshore and seabed.
If a government is stupid and treasonous enough to allow the sale of prime dairy farms to Chinese interests, it will most certainly allow chunks of the coast and seabed to be sold off.
ONCE IT IS PRIVATISED IT WILL BE GONE FOREVER.
And only Maori will be permitted, under law, to take part in this privatisation.
Then, the National government allowed the Maori Party co-leader to sneak off to the United Nations to sign a declaration on indigenous peoples' rights.
Previous governments had been advised not to sign this declaration because it opened the door for separatist decisions at every level of government.
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1007/S00302.htm