The law to replace the Foreshore and Seabed Act will require all applications for customary title to be made within six years of its enactment.

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.

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.