Post by Kiwi Frontline on Mar 22, 2016 17:25:44 GMT 12
PM STANDS FIRM ON KERMADEC SANCTUARY
A giant ocean sanctuary around the Kermadecs is New Zealand's gift to world conservation, says Prime Minister John Key, as his government prepares to fight a challenge to it from Maori fishing interests.
A bill to create an enormous sanctuary in the area northeast of New Zealand passed through parliament unanimously last week but Te Ohu Kaimoana, the Maori Fisheries Trust, says it has now filed papers in the High Court at Wellington to block the plan.
It says it would "extinguish all iwi customary commercial and non-commercial fishing rights" in the area.
But Mr Key says the government will be sticking to its guns over the plan, which has wide political support.
"Parliament is supreme, it can pass whatever law it wants," he told TV3's Paul Henry programme….
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A giant ocean sanctuary around the Kermadecs is New Zealand's gift to world conservation, says Prime Minister John Key, as his government prepares to fight a challenge to it from Maori fishing interests.
A bill to create an enormous sanctuary in the area northeast of New Zealand passed through parliament unanimously last week but Te Ohu Kaimoana, the Maori Fisheries Trust, says it has now filed papers in the High Court at Wellington to block the plan.
It says it would "extinguish all iwi customary commercial and non-commercial fishing rights" in the area.
But Mr Key says the government will be sticking to its guns over the plan, which has wide political support.
"Parliament is supreme, it can pass whatever law it wants," he told TV3's Paul Henry programme….
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A further article on the above here > www.newshub.co.nz/politics/key-parliaments-wishes-supreme-over-treaty-2016032108