Interesting that the water can be considered as a Maori claim, but the systems that distribute and utilize it ( treatment plants, water network infrastructure, hydropower, irrigation systems etc) are never acknowledged as a colonial import and subject to Pakeha claims of traditional use.
I guess it will be a good thing in that once they own it they will be responsible for all the costs involved after each time the rivers flood and the damaged caused.
The ancestral mumbo jumbo that elitist Maori always use to try and justify their bald-faced racism must be called out for what it is ... utter rubbish.
The New Zealand of today is very different to the islands first inhabited by the Moriori, and who were then followed by Polynesians calling themselves Maori. If anyone would possibly have had grounds for such a claim - albeit tenuous - it would be the former not the latter, and, in or after 1835 but not today. That is because water needs and uses have changed dramatically through our modernised systems of living, and right now there is no basis, much less room, for anyone in this country to try and make out a claim that a natural resource belongs to them exclusively. As a Christian woman I find this extremely offensive knowing that water is a God given gift.
Kingi Grifter. No wonder he’s smiling. ALL of this BS needs to be kicked to touch. There is no valid argument why someone with one form of partial ancestry should gain privilege over another. Imagine if white folk claimed water privileges ahead of Indians / Chinese and leveraged them for financial gain. It’s just sick and we need a Seymour type leader to stop it.
Interesting that the water can be considered as a Maori claim, but the systems that distribute and utilize it ( treatment plants, water network infrastructure, hydropower, irrigation systems etc) are never acknowledged as a colonial import and subject to Pakeha claims of traditional use.
Critical Race Theory only works one way - in support of the "oppressed". I can't wait to see the back of it.
Or the gazillion other aspects & IP gifted to a bunch of ignorant savages by a gracious coloniser…
I guess it will be a good thing in that once they own it they will be responsible for all the costs involved after each time the rivers flood and the damaged caused.
No..........I thought not.
The ancestral mumbo jumbo that elitist Maori always use to try and justify their bald-faced racism must be called out for what it is ... utter rubbish.
The New Zealand of today is very different to the islands first inhabited by the Moriori, and who were then followed by Polynesians calling themselves Maori. If anyone would possibly have had grounds for such a claim - albeit tenuous - it would be the former not the latter, and, in or after 1835 but not today. That is because water needs and uses have changed dramatically through our modernised systems of living, and right now there is no basis, much less room, for anyone in this country to try and make out a claim that a natural resource belongs to them exclusively. As a Christian woman I find this extremely offensive knowing that water is a God given gift.
Most Maori on the margins are too fkn dumb to figure it out. That's why there's a growing elite, while they wallow at the bottom of the shi+ pile.
I like the position that no one owns natural
resources- but we are ALL responsible for them…
Thought Maori didn’t own them either - the collective did - and the collective now includes us all…
Is that too bloody simple…?
Dear New Zealander’s… if only David Seymour’s Treaty Principles Bill had been given the go ahead, we might have clarity around the ToW.
Dear Christopher Luxon
I’d like to know exactly what parts of DS’s TPB you didn’t like - oh yeh, ALL OF IT!!!
No wonder things aren’t getting better around this subject.
Luxon has no balls.
Kingi Grifter. No wonder he’s smiling. ALL of this BS needs to be kicked to touch. There is no valid argument why someone with one form of partial ancestry should gain privilege over another. Imagine if white folk claimed water privileges ahead of Indians / Chinese and leveraged them for financial gain. It’s just sick and we need a Seymour type leader to stop it.