Should we be repealing the foreshore and seabed act?

Steven, have you ever studied NZ's history? You speak like an ignorant person. So I assume that your understanding of NZ history is the sanitised version regurgitated by the bumbling NZ media.

Ownership of the forshore and sea bed is greed, racist greed by maori,the same type of racist greed shown by the crown that signed a treaty consigning all kiwis to a never ending spiral of further greed.

Ian, are you unable to read? I explained the issue previously. The judiciary decided that Maori were entitled to seek "customary title" over areas of New Zealand's foreshore and seabed, the govt overruled the judiciary. Any govt that attempts to overrule the judiciary should be dismissed. Are you simply to stupid to comprehend my posts?

The Foreshore and seabed belong to ALL New Zealanders, and must never be signed over to Maori, or any other minority group, no matter what delusions of importance they may think they have.

There sould be NO foreshore and seabed act full stop!

Maori do not own this, all who reside in NZ own it!

Diana, the foreshore and seabed act was a disgrace. The reason why is simple, the govt created a law to stop a decision by the judiciary. The govt should not be interfering with the judiciary. The foreshore and seabed controversy was sparked when, on the 19th of June 2003, New Zealand's Court of Appeal ruled, in the Ngati Apa decision, that Maori were entitled to seek "customary title" over areas of New Zealand's foreshore and seabed in the Maori Land Court. The law, was the worst act passed by the previous govt.

How bizarre that decendents of 1840 Maori are demanding exclusive rights to a universal phenomenon. The law of basic human rights will never grant exclusive rights to a group of descendents from any population group to own naturally occuring oceanographic/geographic infrastructure. Just as bizarre to think that a certain population group would demand exlusive rights to the rays of the sun between dawn and dusk!

What decendents of 1840 Maori do have however, is a right to have equal partnership of kawangatanga of the land with descendents of all other population groups; this IS guaranteed under existing foreshore and seabed legislation.

This legislation protects everyone's birth right to share and enjoy the most basic of our natural environments; and guarantees those of our future generations.

If they get foreshore & seabed, you can kiss goodbye to all the wild paua, kina,pipi etc,we might get a taste of the odd farmed one, or down the pub for 10 times the price.

Let the Chattham Islanders speak for themselves, as an outsider who is entitled to speak for another. The Moriori were a peacefull people, their is a time for peace and a time for violence. And a peacefull people would not fear to well under British colonialism, take Australia for instance. Maori did not invade the Chattham islands until after the British claimed them for themselves, perhaps Maori did not want the British to develop a easy mind frame about them. The following extract is also stated-Some Moriori descendants have made claims against the New Zealand government through the Waitangi Tribunal, a commission of inquiry charged with making recommendations on claims brought by Maori relating to actions or omissions of the Crown. How does it feel when the shoe is on the other foot, lets see if one can walk a mile or 200 years.

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People have been in acknowledgement for years mate whether they wanted to or not..everyone here in this land knows that some land was taken unlawfully by the crown of the past the whole f***in conntry has been in acknowledgement for years man how blind and deaf do you have to be not to know this...

Last year Wgtn Maori were gifted a small strip of land but arent allowed to build new dwellings, arent allowed to start business on it, cant use the existing buildings etc...
please enlighten me as to why they cant do anything on there land? i would like to know please.

and i say again if its NOT about ownership then why go for it cus you already got the acknowledgement you talk about...so you were the second race to migrate here you are not indegionus peoples of this land you are immingrants just like the rest of us...the second immingrants to reach these lands...how about you acknowledge that eh!

Ooh no you could never face the truth of this fact could you... you want me to face the truth of my past... yet your too pussy to face the truth of your own past

mate i know that the white people before me did some bad shit...what is maori going to do for the moriori...the land of the chattham islands that your kind stole off these peaceful people well documented this small part of history and you enslaved them.....

but yea i forgot im just a dumb white fulla and this part of history that i speak of never existed cus the maori refuse to have the balls and stand up and be accountable for nearly killing a whole existance of indegionus chatham islander peoples...at least i got the balls to stand up and say that my ancestors did some things that were wrong and now your getting payment for it...i aint ever seen a maori fulla stand up and accept what there kind did on the chathams was grossley wrong and reperations need to be made to these peaceful peoples

but hey what do i know im white!