Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jul 4, 2023 10:12:47 GMT 12
Bruce Moon: SPOTLIGHT ON NGAI TAHU
Well, greatly enriched with taxpayer money, the Ngai Tahu tribe is really getting used to throwing its weight around. Sometimes of course this may be appropriate in the general scheme of things but perhaps it is time to have a closer look at what it amounts to.
First and foremost, it should be made crystal clear that the immense wealth of this tribe is largely due to a very dubious “Treaty Settlement” inflicted on our long-suffering taxpayers. Flagrant in the extreme is the Ngai Tahu Claims Settlement Act of 1998. An exhaustive examination by Alan Everton, substantially confirmed by the studies of Michael Butler[ii] and Denis Hampton,[iii] asserted that, in Everton’s words “any settlement of Ngai Tahu’s claims based on [the Waitangi Tribunal’s] report will be nothing short of a fraud.” Plain words!
And that is why, fellow taxpayers, Ngai Tahu Inc. is now one of the richest corporations in New Zealand. And that is not more than half of the story because in 1969, when Ngai Tahu’s fourth “full and final” settlement was negotiated, Southern Maori MP, Whetu Tregerthen-Sullivan reported in Parliament that at 80 tribal meetings, 109 formal resolutions were passed accepting it. She rejected an argument that their claims had not been fully and finally settled. If we accept Everton’s lengthy and careful analysis, Ngai Tahu’s so-called “Treaty Settlement” of 1st October 1998, actively supported by Messrs Bolger and Graham, was a fraud inflicted on the taxpayers of New Zealand by the Shipley Government, with subsequent “relativity payments”…..
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/07/bruce-moon-spotlight-on-ngai-tahu.html
Well, greatly enriched with taxpayer money, the Ngai Tahu tribe is really getting used to throwing its weight around. Sometimes of course this may be appropriate in the general scheme of things but perhaps it is time to have a closer look at what it amounts to.
First and foremost, it should be made crystal clear that the immense wealth of this tribe is largely due to a very dubious “Treaty Settlement” inflicted on our long-suffering taxpayers. Flagrant in the extreme is the Ngai Tahu Claims Settlement Act of 1998. An exhaustive examination by Alan Everton, substantially confirmed by the studies of Michael Butler[ii] and Denis Hampton,[iii] asserted that, in Everton’s words “any settlement of Ngai Tahu’s claims based on [the Waitangi Tribunal’s] report will be nothing short of a fraud.” Plain words!
And that is why, fellow taxpayers, Ngai Tahu Inc. is now one of the richest corporations in New Zealand. And that is not more than half of the story because in 1969, when Ngai Tahu’s fourth “full and final” settlement was negotiated, Southern Maori MP, Whetu Tregerthen-Sullivan reported in Parliament that at 80 tribal meetings, 109 formal resolutions were passed accepting it. She rejected an argument that their claims had not been fully and finally settled. If we accept Everton’s lengthy and careful analysis, Ngai Tahu’s so-called “Treaty Settlement” of 1st October 1998, actively supported by Messrs Bolger and Graham, was a fraud inflicted on the taxpayers of New Zealand by the Shipley Government, with subsequent “relativity payments”…..
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/07/bruce-moon-spotlight-on-ngai-tahu.html