IN this video, Kiwi alt media guy Duncan Garner reveals it’s not just the central North Island Taupo Council doing secret power sharing deals with Iwi (local Maori tribal/family groups).
To the north of Taupo in the Waikato region, a bunch of unelected bureaucrats are doing a behind-closed-doors deal with the local Tainui tribe over the future of the Waikato River.
“And hard working land users up and down the river are being refused access to what’s going on,” says Garner.
Andy Loader with with the Public Land Users Group in the Waikato region joined Garner to discuss the issue. He said the secrecy of the deals between the regional council and iwi was like living under a totalitarian state.
Cairns News took a quick look at the agenda papers of the Waiora Co-Governance Committee Meeting of the Waikato Regional Council and found a horrific exercise in administrative warfare by so-called “Democracy Advisers” working for the tribal groups.
The Indigenous co-governance committee is attempting to exempt itself from the three-year local government elections i.e. make themselves a permanent unelected bureaucracy with control of water and other natural resources to claim to own because they claim are the original administrators.
These co-governance operations are raking in multiple millions of dollars for tribal groups, as is the case for Auckland City Council ratepayers who are paying regional iwi tens of millions of dollars for access to Waikato River water that is mostly flowing out to sea.
