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Put foreshore under Maori control – Harawira
Posted by karere under Maori News
Maori Party MP Hone Hawawira says the solution to the Foreshore and Seabed Act would be to put the foreshore and seabed under Maori control but make it inalienable and guarantee access for all. “Make it inalienable so it can never be sold - not just to Maori and Pakeha, but overseas people who are buying up big chunks,” he said, addressing a hikoi of around 200 people at the flagstaff below Te Whare Runanga.
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As a starting point i agree with hone and i can’t understand why they just don’t do this – notwithstanding the valid arguments raised by justin, on another post, about creating a new type of title that actually emcompasses the real world situation we find ourselves in.
Because the seabed and foreshore area covers a dynamic line that moves with the ebb and flow of the sands, some of the foreshore has already been transferred into private property. This is why ‘property’ does not really fit the bill for this situation. Via the legislation, the crown quasi-annexed the territorial title of the seabed and foreshore in 2004, its the territorial title that we need to also be discussing, not just the specific acres of land that make up the area we call takutai moana.
With the territorial title comes control over minerals, access, policing, mining and all that. If you just want to debate acres, then do not forget that land tenure in this country ends at 6ft under, they who hold the territorial or absolute/radical title control the rest.