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Serious Flaws in Foreshore Plan
Serious Flaws in Foreshore Plan
Rt Hon Winston Peters has described the
foreshore and seabed proposals released today as a
“compromise that reflects the worst of all worlds”.
Mr Peters said the proposals go from all New Zealanders, in the form of the Crown, owning the exclusive economic zone right up to the high water mark, (with some already recognised exceptions,) to nobody now owning it!
“This is a ridiculous situation, and totally unacceptable to any First World government or legal system”.
“Those who were persuaded by National’s 'Kiwi not Iwi' argument have been totally deceived, as have the Maori people who have been told that this will restore their ownership, which legally was never the case.
“As a result all New Zealanders now face the prospect of decades of court cases and uncertainty unless a future government fixes it up,” said Mr Peters.
Mr Peters said that the coastal tribes, as evidenced by Ngati Porou support for the previous law, and the wider New Zealand public are by this unholy compromise between John Key and the Maori Party the latest victims of naive, cheap politics.
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