Iwi win foreshore and seabed recognition 10 May 2021 08:54 AM Photo: Radio Waatea Image Database.
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Tom Bennion: Iwi win foreshore and seabed recognition
A lawyer involved in the first High Court case involving the Marine and Coastal Areas Act says it’s one of the most significant judgments in New Zealand’s history.
A lawyer involved in the first High Court case involving the Marine and Coastal Areas Act says it’s one of the most significant judgments in New Zealand’s history.
In a 215-page judgment released on Friday, Justice Peter Churchman found Te Whakatohea, Ngāi Tai, Ngāti Awa and other iwi and hapū had a customary marine title or protected customary interests in the Eastern Bay of Plenty.
SEVENTEEN YEARS HAVE PASSED since Don Brash gave his in/famous âNationhoodâ speech to the Orewa Rotary Club. On the strength of the sentiments communicated in that address, the Brash-led National Party leapt from a risible 28 percent in the polls to 45 percent. In a single 17-point bound, National was free of the clutches of its crushing 2002 election defeat. Had, Nationalâs chief strategist, Steven Joyce, not played silly-buggers with the Exclusive Brethren Church, there was every chance that 18 months later Brash would have become prime minister.
The question is: Can Nationalâs current leader, Judith Collins, rely upon Brashâs Nationhood Souffle recipe to produce an equally dramatic rise in her partyâs fortunes? Or, in the intervening years, has the ideology of âTreatyismâ persuaded enough New Zealanders to renounce the ideas which, in 2004, transformed National overnight into a serious electoral contender? More to the point, does Collins sh