Post by Kiwi Frontline on Apr 11, 2016 7:06:46 GMT 12
HYPOCRISY
The water debate is heating up, with orchestrated attacks on water bottling companies. Maori leaders want a price on water. With the resource estimated to be worth $35 billion a year, they know that once National give them control of fresh water, they will be able to claim royalty payments for future use and compensation for lost revenue.
As the Maori Council chair Maanu Paul said on Tuesday, “Any commercial operation will have to pay a fee, and that is the issue as far as the council is concerned – because these people are profiting from the use of a common good that belongs to Maori.”
Previous governments have rejected such opportunistic claims by Maori leaders. But in an astonishing act of hypocrisy, the National Party MP, who is advancing the current attempt by Maori to control fresh water, led the campaign against their attempt to control the foreshore and seabed.
While Nick Smith is now turning a blind eye to New Zealanders’ concerns over Maori control of water, in 2003 he stood up for the public. During a protest march down the main street of his Nelson electorate, he said, “Ordinary New Zealanders, who have shown a huge degree of tolerance to treaty claims and spending on Maori issues, have had enough.”
Dr Smith claimed that while senior Labour Government ministers were negotiating with Maori over the ownership of the foreshore and seabed to find a “win-win” solution, the answer was “very simple”: “The Government should pass legislation confirming the Crown as owner on behalf of all New Zealanders. Anyone who wants to divide up the shoreline for one exclusive group of citizenship must be stopped”…
Continue reading Dr Muriel Newman's latest NZCPR newsletter here > www.nzcpr.com/hypocrisy/#more-18138
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FIVE (5) THINGS YOU CAN DO:
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1..CHECK out the wording in the great advertisement here > www.nzcpr.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/FreshWaterSubmissionsAdvert.pdf
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2..SUPPORT placing the advertisement in even more newspapers around the country with a donation ASAP > www.nzcpr.com/campaign-donation/
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3..SEND in an online Submission by 22 April 2016 > www.mfe.govt.nz/consultation/next-steps-fresh-water (scroll down page for submission button)
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4..SIGN the NZCPR 'Water Rights' petition > www.nzcpr.com/water-rights-petition/
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5..'SHARE' this post on your page and others, and/or with your email contacts
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ADVERTISEMENTS PUBLISHED TO DATE BY THE NZCPR (with thanks to the public's generous support) ARE:
Weekend Sun (Tauranga) 8-9/4/16
Christchurch Press 9/4/16
NZ Herald 9/4/16
Dominion Post 9/4/16
Taranaki Daily News 9/4/16,
Otago Daily Times 9/4/16 (unconfirmed if published)
Herald On Sunday 10/4/16
Sunday Star Times 10/4/16
More in the pipeline next week, with Sunday Star Times and Herald on Sunday booked for a repeat next Sunday 17th
The water debate is heating up, with orchestrated attacks on water bottling companies. Maori leaders want a price on water. With the resource estimated to be worth $35 billion a year, they know that once National give them control of fresh water, they will be able to claim royalty payments for future use and compensation for lost revenue.
As the Maori Council chair Maanu Paul said on Tuesday, “Any commercial operation will have to pay a fee, and that is the issue as far as the council is concerned – because these people are profiting from the use of a common good that belongs to Maori.”
Previous governments have rejected such opportunistic claims by Maori leaders. But in an astonishing act of hypocrisy, the National Party MP, who is advancing the current attempt by Maori to control fresh water, led the campaign against their attempt to control the foreshore and seabed.
While Nick Smith is now turning a blind eye to New Zealanders’ concerns over Maori control of water, in 2003 he stood up for the public. During a protest march down the main street of his Nelson electorate, he said, “Ordinary New Zealanders, who have shown a huge degree of tolerance to treaty claims and spending on Maori issues, have had enough.”
Dr Smith claimed that while senior Labour Government ministers were negotiating with Maori over the ownership of the foreshore and seabed to find a “win-win” solution, the answer was “very simple”: “The Government should pass legislation confirming the Crown as owner on behalf of all New Zealanders. Anyone who wants to divide up the shoreline for one exclusive group of citizenship must be stopped”…
Continue reading Dr Muriel Newman's latest NZCPR newsletter here > www.nzcpr.com/hypocrisy/#more-18138
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.
FIVE (5) THINGS YOU CAN DO:
.
1..CHECK out the wording in the great advertisement here > www.nzcpr.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/FreshWaterSubmissionsAdvert.pdf
.
2..SUPPORT placing the advertisement in even more newspapers around the country with a donation ASAP > www.nzcpr.com/campaign-donation/
.
3..SEND in an online Submission by 22 April 2016 > www.mfe.govt.nz/consultation/next-steps-fresh-water (scroll down page for submission button)
.
4..SIGN the NZCPR 'Water Rights' petition > www.nzcpr.com/water-rights-petition/
.
5..'SHARE' this post on your page and others, and/or with your email contacts
.
.
ADVERTISEMENTS PUBLISHED TO DATE BY THE NZCPR (with thanks to the public's generous support) ARE:
Weekend Sun (Tauranga) 8-9/4/16
Christchurch Press 9/4/16
NZ Herald 9/4/16
Dominion Post 9/4/16
Taranaki Daily News 9/4/16,
Otago Daily Times 9/4/16 (unconfirmed if published)
Herald On Sunday 10/4/16
Sunday Star Times 10/4/16
More in the pipeline next week, with Sunday Star Times and Herald on Sunday booked for a repeat next Sunday 17th