Post by Kiwi Frontline on Oct 29, 2016 7:19:56 GMT 12
CABINET’S INTENTIONS CONCERNING THE ALLOCATION OF FRESH WATER
It will come as a surprise to the general public that their rights to have water allocation decided on a principled basis irrespective of race have been so severely compromised by a senior government Minister without any public input. Although a principled attempt has been made in the “bottom lines” of the cabinet paper to recognise that access to fresh water is too important to yield to race based privilege, but unhappily that crucial recognition becomes fudged in the body of the paper, and the public is now left in the position of being in the hands of a body of “experts” to decide if and to what extent the management, control and ownership of water will be decided on raced based considerations rather than the general public interest.
In the event, given the sympathetic ear of the Courts and the Waitangi Tribunal to Maori claims to fresh water it looks increasingly likely that this matter, and more generally whether New Zealand’s crucial public policy interests will in future be decided along racial lines will be the central issue at the next election. Clearly it is shaping up to be a contest between those who wish to see honoured Governor Hobson’s pledge at the signing of the Treaty that “we are now one people” and those who wish to see New Zealand society fragmented along racial lines. To allow this to happen will create a reservoir of bitterness among those who see their fundamental interests in racial harmony ignored by an arrogant bureaucracy and a compromised government.....
Read Anthony Willy’s full NZCPR guest commentary here > www.nzcpr.com/cabinets-intentions-concerning-the-allocation-of-fresh-water/#more-20368
It will come as a surprise to the general public that their rights to have water allocation decided on a principled basis irrespective of race have been so severely compromised by a senior government Minister without any public input. Although a principled attempt has been made in the “bottom lines” of the cabinet paper to recognise that access to fresh water is too important to yield to race based privilege, but unhappily that crucial recognition becomes fudged in the body of the paper, and the public is now left in the position of being in the hands of a body of “experts” to decide if and to what extent the management, control and ownership of water will be decided on raced based considerations rather than the general public interest.
In the event, given the sympathetic ear of the Courts and the Waitangi Tribunal to Maori claims to fresh water it looks increasingly likely that this matter, and more generally whether New Zealand’s crucial public policy interests will in future be decided along racial lines will be the central issue at the next election. Clearly it is shaping up to be a contest between those who wish to see honoured Governor Hobson’s pledge at the signing of the Treaty that “we are now one people” and those who wish to see New Zealand society fragmented along racial lines. To allow this to happen will create a reservoir of bitterness among those who see their fundamental interests in racial harmony ignored by an arrogant bureaucracy and a compromised government.....
Read Anthony Willy’s full NZCPR guest commentary here > www.nzcpr.com/cabinets-intentions-concerning-the-allocation-of-fresh-water/#more-20368