MĀORI FRESHWATER RIGHTS SET TO BE A STUMBLING BLOCK FOR COAL

[Kiwi Frontline]

MĀORI FRESHWATER RIGHTS SET TO BE A STUMBLING BLOCK FOR COALITION GOVERNMENT

Māori ownership of freshwater is set to boil over at Waitangi this year unless the Government commits to addressing iwi rights and interests.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will meet with the Iwi Chair Forum (ICF) ahead of Waitangi events on February 5 and 6 and forum adviser Willie Te Aho has made it clear the group will go back to the Supreme Court if there's no progress on iwi rights to fresh water.

While Labour talked up dealing with the issue ahead of the election, any hope of a freshwater tax and Māori interests being recognised came to a grinding halt when it did a coalition deal with NZ First, which is strongly against the idea....

www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/99362109/mori-freshwater-rights-set-to-be-a-stumbling-block-for-coalition-government

[second-class-citizen]

Anyone see that ugly overweight maori woman ( face like a cartoon hippo with tatt's ) saying that maori own the water and she wants the (cringing) government to get on with giving it to them. The greed and sense of entitlement is fueled by the spineless politicians ( and National were no better) falling over themselves to "understand" the meaning of the fraudulent treaty.  There was some big meeting yesterday where all the maori mafia and the the spineless traitors met to massage each others ego's.  I guess we taxpayers paid for this. When will mainstream NZ wake up and think "maybe Sir Gallagher was right".