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Just $5 buys entry to a coastal paradise
Visitors to Nora and Waata Rameka's piece of paradise in Northland pay for the privilege of surfing off Takou Bay.
Visitors to Nora and Waata Rameka's piece of paradise in Northland pay for the privilege of surfing off Takou Bay.
Extreme social and economic disadvantage faced by Maori has been highlighted as an ongoing concern by a visiting UN expert.
Ninety Mile Beach and Cape Reinga could be early targets for iwi pushing for customary title after the repeal of the Foreshore and Seabed Act.
Attorney-General Chris Finlayson believes about 2000km of NZ's coastline will eventually be covered by iwi customary title.
Maori groups awarded customary title in the foreshore and seabed will be the legal owners of it and the minerals beneath it.
The Govt will introduce a new property title that can be claimed over the foreshore and seabed.
National has relaxed the threshold for claiming customary title but the iwi leaders want it relaxed even further.
A Ngapuhi leader is calling for a nine per cent economic development tax to be levied on everyone living inside the iwi's boundary.
As the Waitangi Tribunal prepares to issues its recommendations on the most far-reaching claim yet, an improved ability to talk through our different viewpoints will be critical.
Northland Maori want a special economic development tax as part of their Treaty settlement.
Diana Clement wanders off a Wellington street and into New Zealand's tumultuous history at the National Archives.
The Department of Internal Affairs has apologised to a mother after it admitted failing to uphold the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi in dealing with her.
Chris Finlayson writes on how the Waikato River Settlement Act benefits the whole nation.
John Key says giving Te Urewera to Tuhoe could have opened the way for other iwi to put strong cases for ownership of national parks.