Post by Kiwi Frontline on Aug 6, 2024 5:00:37 GMT 12
MĀORI SEABED CLAIMS DEFYING GRAVITY
New Zealand First leader Winston Peters says a proposed change to the Marine and Coastal Areas Act will bring the test for Māori customary rights back in line with longstanding practice.
Treaty Negotiations Minister Paul Goldsmith intends to introduce an amendment to overturn a Court of Appeal judgment that lowered the threshold that to get customary marine title an iwi or hapu must prove it exclusively used and occupied an area from 1840 to the present day, without substantial interruption.
Mr Peters says that test was in Labour’s original Foreshore and Seabed Act, which he supported, but the current Act cooked up by National and Te Pati Maori had proved expensive and divisive, pitting iwi against iwi for control of the coast.....
waateanews.com/2024/08/05/maori-seabed-claims-defying-gravity/
New Zealand First leader Winston Peters says a proposed change to the Marine and Coastal Areas Act will bring the test for Māori customary rights back in line with longstanding practice.
Treaty Negotiations Minister Paul Goldsmith intends to introduce an amendment to overturn a Court of Appeal judgment that lowered the threshold that to get customary marine title an iwi or hapu must prove it exclusively used and occupied an area from 1840 to the present day, without substantial interruption.
Mr Peters says that test was in Labour’s original Foreshore and Seabed Act, which he supported, but the current Act cooked up by National and Te Pati Maori had proved expensive and divisive, pitting iwi against iwi for control of the coast.....
waateanews.com/2024/08/05/maori-seabed-claims-defying-gravity/