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That's brilliant Frank. I have done my submission but here on holiday in Whanganui in a bookabach with a great library, I read some more about Parihaka and the Taranaki land grab via book about someones great grandfather and how farms were got. Sparing the details, it occurred to me as my wife was writing her submission just now.........it occurred to me how silly the notion of equality as used in the bill is. As you so rightly state.........there has been massive inequality in the treatment of Maori and their land, I reiterate THEIR land by the Crown since before 1880 and continuing. Taranaki is only one shocking instance. So Maori land is still caught in the leasing loop where the true owners have no rights and cannot break the cycle.

Equality is a convenient term for libertarians.........which we now know Atlas Network to be and the drivers via ACT of this bill. If the bill passes I do wonder about the equality or acts of waiting to be settled.............for Maori, and then the libertarian primacy of private ownership.......I can see existing land owned by Maori but leased in perpetuity from earlier times.......I can see that land not going back to its rightful owners............whether that be true or not............this notion of equality when the crown has ripped off Maori and told bare faced lies.............I am found wondering......yeah....equality for who..........

Bob Marley is so right here..........and it applies. If you know your history, you wouldn't say who the heck do you think I am.

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Levi's avatar

Excellent research Frank , David seems to completely forget his ancestry . To be equal there must be equity first.

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