Hi Bernard. Very interested in your analysis but completely foxed by your description of co-governance as a "red herring" — and elsewhere as an "inconsequential sideshow".
If it were either or both of these things the govt would have ditched it long ago. Mahuta explicitly ruled it out of discussion by the Working Group last year.
It is t…
Hi Bernard. Very interested in your analysis but completely foxed by your description of co-governance as a "red herring" — and elsewhere as an "inconsequential sideshow".
If it were either or both of these things the govt would have ditched it long ago. Mahuta explicitly ruled it out of discussion by the Working Group last year.
It is the whole point of 3W as a "Treaty settlement disguised as an infrastructure project" (as David Seymour put it).
Co-governance at the four Regional Representative Groups is only one part of the handover of power to iwi. The more significant provisions are in S140-141 of the WSE Bill that gives iwi and hapu the right to make binding edicts to their WSE over any freshwater body in their rohe.
This is a right denied to non-Maori (and, no, they are not confined to water purity but include anything covered by matauranga Maori / tikanga etc, including the presence of taniwha and any other "cultural" considerations).
Hi Bernard. Very interested in your analysis but completely foxed by your description of co-governance as a "red herring" — and elsewhere as an "inconsequential sideshow".
If it were either or both of these things the govt would have ditched it long ago. Mahuta explicitly ruled it out of discussion by the Working Group last year.
It is the whole point of 3W as a "Treaty settlement disguised as an infrastructure project" (as David Seymour put it).
Co-governance at the four Regional Representative Groups is only one part of the handover of power to iwi. The more significant provisions are in S140-141 of the WSE Bill that gives iwi and hapu the right to make binding edicts to their WSE over any freshwater body in their rohe.
This is a right denied to non-Maori (and, no, they are not confined to water purity but include anything covered by matauranga Maori / tikanga etc, including the presence of taniwha and any other "cultural" considerations).