Post by Kiwi Frontline on Oct 30, 2016 4:49:09 GMT 12
WATER RIGHTS AGENDA EXPOSED
So what does all of this mean?
Essentially without notifying the public, the National-led Government has entered into an arrangement with Iwi Leaders to reshape freshwater management in New Zealand. To avoid public concerns over the race-based control of fresh water being raised at the next election, they have not only concealed details about the reforms, but they have also scheduled what little public consultation there will be until after the election.
National is clearly hoping that in the next term of Government, together with the Maori Party, they will be able to introduce the tribal control of fresh water – long demanded by the iwi elite – through the back door.
This week’s Guest Commentator, Anthony Willy, a former Environment Court Judge and Lecturer in Law at Canterbury University, puts it this way:
“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 without any public input.
“Creating imaginary rights and rectifying wrongs taken out of their historical context may give the academics and their ilk among the policy makers a warm feeling of rectitude but they do nothing to promote and preserve the greater good.”
I will leave the last words to then National Party conservation spokesman Nick Smith, who, in 2007, before he and his Party became cheerleaders for Maori sovereignty, stated that water is a public resource and “We think it is a mistake to try and divide the management of water along ethnic lines”.
How his tune has changed. But what’s most disturbing is the conniving and arrogant dismissal of the public’s right to be kept informed of changes to the way this crucial public resource is about to be managed.....
Read Dr Muriel Newman’s worrying newsletter here > www.nzcpr.com/water-rights-agenda-exposed/#more-20374
So what does all of this mean?
Essentially without notifying the public, the National-led Government has entered into an arrangement with Iwi Leaders to reshape freshwater management in New Zealand. To avoid public concerns over the race-based control of fresh water being raised at the next election, they have not only concealed details about the reforms, but they have also scheduled what little public consultation there will be until after the election.
National is clearly hoping that in the next term of Government, together with the Maori Party, they will be able to introduce the tribal control of fresh water – long demanded by the iwi elite – through the back door.
This week’s Guest Commentator, Anthony Willy, a former Environment Court Judge and Lecturer in Law at Canterbury University, puts it this way:
“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 without any public input.
“Creating imaginary rights and rectifying wrongs taken out of their historical context may give the academics and their ilk among the policy makers a warm feeling of rectitude but they do nothing to promote and preserve the greater good.”
I will leave the last words to then National Party conservation spokesman Nick Smith, who, in 2007, before he and his Party became cheerleaders for Maori sovereignty, stated that water is a public resource and “We think it is a mistake to try and divide the management of water along ethnic lines”.
How his tune has changed. But what’s most disturbing is the conniving and arrogant dismissal of the public’s right to be kept informed of changes to the way this crucial public resource is about to be managed.....
Read Dr Muriel Newman’s worrying newsletter here > www.nzcpr.com/water-rights-agenda-exposed/#more-20374