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National underestimates tribal ambitions for racial superiority

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National underestimates tribal ambitions for racial superiority

By Michael Coote

Potential investors have been rightly dismayed by the racial water rights fiasco that has engulfed and contaminated proposed partial sales of Mighty River Power, Genesis Energy and Meridian Energy. The supposedly slick, market-savvy National minority government of prime minister John Key has been left looking feckless, outflanked and amateurish in the process.

It will be remembered that the three publicly-owned electricity generators, along with ailing Solid Energy, were touted as partial equity selldowns by National without any serious thought given at the time to Treaty of Waitangi contingencies embedded in the State-owned Enterprises Act. It was the beginning of the end when National was subsequently cornered into putting a Treaty clause into the enabling legislation for the mixed ownership model (MOM) of SOE partial privatisation.

Once that was done, the door was opened to legalised looting by Maori tribal commercial interests, of which the Maori Council’s complaint to the Waitangi Tribunal was but one manifestation.

One has to go back to the predecessor Clark Labour government’s hamfisted destruction of attempts to sell controlling interests in Auckland International Airport to foreign investors to find anything so bad for the reputation of New Zealand’s share market.

Maori tribal water rights claims over MOM SOEs have since metastasized into something far bigger than perhaps even the Maori Council realised it would achieve in its Tribunal action.

With its MOM proposal, National irretrievably conceded that publicly-owned water rights could be privatized for the commercial benefit of self-interested minorities, be they shareholders of the 49% of SOE equity to be sold down, or opportunistic Maori tribes.

Maori tribal commercial interests and their often taxpayer-funded lawyers were not slow to see that such a concession meant that all water rights in New Zealand could potentially be privatised into tribal ownership.

Lucrative race-based rights of veto, danegeld extraction, and perpetual royalty streams would ineluctably follow.

One of the fictions to be dismissed in this water rights gold rush is that allegedly ancestral, spiritual and Treaty-hallowed Maori tribal interests in water rights are something holier than ordinary private property claims.

The twist with Maori tribes is their race-based demand to enjoy Treaty partnership pre-emption in acquiring private property interests in fresh water ahead of all other competing private interests.

It’s not as if National wasn’t told that it was putting the necks of all New Zealanders in the strangulating Maori tribal water rights noose.

In early May of this year, Ngati Tuwharetoa chairman Tumu te Heuheu warned Parliament's finance and expenditure committee that there was going to be a major stoush if MOM went ahead.

“Our concern as legal owners is that the mixed ownership model will privatise electricity generation operations on our waterways without us being given any say in the matter,â€

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needs derailing, and the sooner the better IMHO.

Buggered if I know Opo, but the answer seems obvious to me. Get rid of MMP return to majority rule first past the post.

Then we could be shafted in an orderly manner by which ever party has been given the nod by electors for the next three years.

At the moment we are being dealt to by the kingmaking minority parties who have nothing but their own interests at heart and are holding the majority to ransom.

Until there is real change to our voting system nothing is ever going to change, the party with the majority vote will be dick.... tated to by the minority parties.

Bend over and get ready for more of the same you have been copping for the last twenty years.

No wonder NZ'ers are bolting to the airports in record numbers.

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food banks are a sign they cant get enough. We over taxed on everything people are starving and this carry on means people aren.t spending as much money mainly cause they arent getting what they are entitled to it drags us all down.

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I realise that Closet but what about "OUR PEOPLE"? Or maybe that only refers to the 'front row'.

You are right, from the outside looking in, there is little sign of "trickle down economics".

And if you are slighty suspicious of the whole process and have a long memory, then see Tuku Morgan involved. You kinda say mmmm..

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needs derailing, and the sooner the better IMHO.

Buggered if I know Opo, but the answer seems obvious to me. Get rid of MMP return to majority rule first past the post.

Then we could be shafted in an orderly manner by which ever party has been given the nod by electors for the next three years.

At the moment we are being dealt to by the kingmaking minority parties who have nothing but their own interests at heart and are holding the majority to ransom.

Until there is real change to our voting system nothing is ever going to change, the party with the majority vote will be dick.... tated to by the minority parties.

Bend over and get ready for more of the same you have been copping for the last twenty years.

No wonder NZ'ers are bolting to the airports in record numbers.

You will of course all recall why the maori party fell out with labour and jumped into bed with john keys "power at all costs" national 2 elections ago was because labour had told them "no" and that enough was enough and labour proposed an end date for treaty of waitangi claims.what a shame national sold the rest of us out for forty pieces of silver,or is it kumera?now the heihei are coming home to roost.

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Surely, following the water logic Maori have claim to the air. Wind turns the turbines and air is a taonga.

Anyone willing to give odds?

I take you use the word 'logic' loosely? By the same 'logic' it is Maori's fault we had no races at Manukau yesterday :D

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Surely, following the water logic Maori have claim to the air. Wind turns the turbines and air is a taonga.

Anyone willing to give odds?

I have noted a number of times on this forum that Maori currently have a claim lodged (2001 I think) for the air. It's based around the land being theres and without the air, nothing on the land grows. It would affect anything that travels through the air such as airwaves, planes, satellite signals etc.

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Even the ancient Romans knew where to draw the line, and their heirarchy were a fairly possessive bunch.

Roman Law:

"Things humani juris were the things with which the private law concerned itself. Things are common when the ownership is in no one, and the enjoyment open to all. In an analogous way, things are public when the ownership is in the people, and the use in individuals. The air, flowing water, the sea, etc. were things common to all, and therefore the property of none. The seashore, rivers, gates, etc., were public.

Private things were such as were capable of private ownership and could form part of the patrimony of individuals. Again, things were collective or singular. The once important distinction between res mancipi and nec mancipi was suppressed by Justinian. Res mancipi were those things which the Romans most highly prized: Italian soil, rural servitudes, slaves, etc. These required formal mancipation."

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