Brash set to oppose lake bed deal
Don Brash has been accused of 'scaremongering' ahead of a National Party campaign starting today likely to oppose handing 13 lakebeds back to Rotorua iwi Te Arawa.
Dr Brash and his deputy leader, Gerry Brownlee, will in Rotorua this morning outline National's policy on the Te Arawa lakes deal.
They will then question the Government in Parliament this week on whether its lakebed negotiations with Te Arawa include airspace and water rights. "
posted by garry 10:56 AM[edit]
Brash set to oppose lake bed deal
Don Brash has been accused of 'scaremongering' ahead of a National Party campaign starting today likely to oppose handing 13 lakebeds back to Rotorua iwi Te Arawa.
Dr Brash and his deputy leader, Gerry Brownlee, will in Rotorua this morning outline National's policy on the Te Arawa lakes deal.
They will then question the Government in Parliament this week on whether its lakebed negotiations with Te Arawa include airspace and water rights. "
posted by garry 10:56 AM[edit]
Contents - Waitangi Tribunal
Te Raupatu o Tauranga Moana: Report on the Tauranga Confiscation Claims
Wai 215
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Wired News: Kiwis Cop Stonehenge's Star Buzz
It took ancient peoples in Great Britain a millennium or more to create Stonehenge, but in New Zealand, a group of astronomy enthusiasts is building its own version in a little more than a year.
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Solar eclipsed by Aus fossil fuel funding
Federal Government support for research on fossil fuels at the expense of renewable energy could cost the country its lead in solar technology, scientists say.
The warning follows a decision not to fund a proposed Co-operative Research Centre in Solar Energy to help commercialise Australian technology, such as the University of Sydney's linear solar concentrators being trialled at Liddell Power Station.
Professor Andrew Blakers, director of the Centre for Sustainable Energy Systems at the Australian National University, said the fossil fuel industry had received more than $110 million in government backing for strategic research and development, with more expected in the budget.
'But for the first time in 30 years there is no fund for strategic R&D in renewable energy,' he said. 'It's very short-sighted. We can't maintain a lead with no funding.'
The Minister for Science, Peter McGauran, denied the Government had turned its back on renewable energies. 'We have the balance right. Coal and gas provide 95 per cent of Australia's energy needs, so of course there is a heavy emphasis on low-emission technologies,' he said."
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Crown pays $25m to settle claim with Maori : "
Final settlement has been reached with Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi, which will see the Whakatane-based Maori tertiary institution receive $25 million over three years.
Three Government ministers yesterday signed the deed of settlement with representatives from the wananga at a function at Parliament. "
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Settlement Deed of Between the Crown and Ngati Tuwharetoa (Bay of Plenty)
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Maori seek return of Mauao
Maori are seeking the return of Mauao, Mt Maunganui's distinctive mount, under a controversial proposal aimed at giving the mountain the same historic status as Aoraki/Mt Cook and Mt Egmont/Taranaki.
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