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Foreshore talks ‘staying secret for now’
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Negotiations on legislation to replace the Foreshore and Seabed Act won’t move into the public arena until agreement is reached with Maori, Prime Minister John Key says. The Government said last year it would repeal the act but not until an alternative had been worked out. Labour has accused it of working in secret with Maori groups and says it should reveal what it is talking about. But Mr Key said yesterday that progress was being made and it wasn’t the right time to go public with details. “There’s not much point in me having public discussions if it’s not going to progress with the support of Maori,” he said.
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keys says “I think their bottom lines are quite clear – universal access to the beaches and a position that doesn’t put them in a worse financial position than they should otherwise be.”
Sorry key but some of us have bottom lines such as – “give back that which was stolen.” and “right the injustice that occured.”
democracy is great when you are the majority but it is shit when you are the minority
There is no rush for an alternative legislation to be drawn up, all National are doing is moving the carrot out of the reach of the Maori Party, meanwhile they sign their souls away daily while trying to grab the carrot.