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Sunlight please

by Whaleoil on February 5, 2010

I received my quarterly newsletter from Exceltium and was concerned to read about some very murky dealings regarding the foreshore and seabed legislation. I have previously blogged on this before about the undue influence of the $100 billion woman Sacha McMeeking of the almost secret Iwi Liaison Group.

The $100 bil­lion woman is a woman of many hats and one can only won­der how she man­ages to main­tain pro­fes­sional stan­dards rep­re­sent­ing so many dif­fer­ent organ­i­sa­tions as well as being on the pay­roll of mul­ti­ple organisations.

What is The Prime Minister’s go-to man, Wayne Eagle­son, to think when Ms McMeek­ing walks in for a meet­ing. Is she there rep­re­sent­ing Ngai Tahu? per­haps it is the Uni­ver­sity of Can­ter­bury? Maybe the Maori Party? OIr some of her for­mer activist organ­i­sa­tions? Cer­tainly this capa­ble woman is a woman of many hats. Just which hats she wears at any one time is any­ones guess.

The worse propo­si­tion though is that she speaks on behalf of the unelected Iwi Lead­er­ship Group, which is a largely secret group­ing of the elite Maori­toc­racy, who have seem­ingly nego­ti­ated a secret deal that not even senior mem­bers of cab­i­net are yet aware of to com­mitt the great­est rob­bery of pub­lic assets in the his­tory of New Zealand and hand them over to a select priv­i­leged group of Maori in an unde­mo­c­ra­tic, and unchal­lenged manner.

Basically she has continued to secretly rip off the little tribes and hapu while vesting in the big 5 untold wealth. Sacha McMeeking has also written a paper about enganement with the crown on the foreshore and seabed which if implemented will fly in the face of the results of the Curia Polling commissioned by Exceltium which shows that 62% agreeing with the statement “I don’t mind who owns the foreshore and seabed, so long as I can access the beach whenever I want to.”

Just what is Sacha McMeeking up to and why can’t we as the public see some sunlight shone on this.

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  • Cadwallader

    I know this woman having dealt with her. Despite the appearance of omniscience she is by any rational measure a light-weight. I suggest you are inadvertently over-stating her ambit. Within 6 months she'll be embroiled in an interesting debate wherein she'll ably exhibit her shortcomings.Her apparent ascendancy to numerous positions is not from ability but connections.

    I suspect you are right that there is a covert inner circle of tribes who are presently manipulating the treaty settlements for a select few. When will Key & Co latch on to this?

  • John

    Racist bullshit. The beaches belong to all of us, not 'owned' by a few. Public support for this mad scheme will be minimal, even lower than Act's current polling. Key will get burned for it.

    bye bye government, hello new government.

    • michael

      John:"The beaches belong to all of us, not 'owned' by a few." Thanks for the laugh John,lets deal with some facts.Most access to the beach is where the public road leads to a council run settlement the rest of the coastline belongs to farmers.Generally the public road ends at their gate,now the comment "the beaches belong to all of us"don't mean shit to the farmer who have had people barge across their property plunder the seabeds use their land as an open shit house,leaving gates open and on occasion rustle a cattle or sheep on the way out. To get permission from the farmer is not as easy has you think,lucky me I've got ties to one of the biggest coastal land blocks in the area and have known the local farmers in the district for years.

  • nopinko

    She is a lightweight.

    As demonstrated by this daitribe.

    http://in.bgvip.tv/play.php?vid=27293507

    • Cadwallader

      You're sure as hell not kidding! I was thrust into the Herculean task of trying to explain a basic business theory to her. It was frustrating given that her responses not once matched a specific principle. I left questioning her sanity which is a bit harsh but honestly, her inability to conceptualise was arresting!

  • Sunshine Philosophy

    I do care who owns the seabed and foreshore. There are mountains of money to be made from such ownership. Think tax/fees on all shipping, all fishing, all minerals, power generation,…. I can believe people are stupid enough to think going to the beach is more important and am appalled by such ignorance.
    The right to the wealth of the foreshore and seabed belongs to all NZers not just those who can find an ancestor who lived here before the english colonization. In fact that is the only hard concrete point of difference between the tangata whenua and the rest of us. All the rest is in their minds and the minds of their enablers.

    • The Gantt Guy

      You mean tangata waka. They were NOT the first inhabitants. They turned the first inhabitants into dinner.

      I completely agree with you about ownership. Why the hell should a small, select group gain almost unimaginable wealth from what the foreshore and seabed has to offer, just because mainstream New Zealand (via our elected representatives) don't have the stones to call Bullshit on their claims and tell them to FRO?

  • old timer

    The first inhabitants weren’t turned into dinner.They were married into.
    Just think what you would be like if your land was taken from you under the same circumstances gantt guy.I bet you wouldnt shut up about it.