The deal, made explicitly outside the Treaty of Waitangi process, ended one chapter in a long-running dispute over the land near Auckland Airport, which was once a site of market gardens for local iwi but was confiscated by the New Zealand Government in 1863. ACT leader David Seymour and National housing spokeswoman Nicola Willis both wrote to the Auditor-General asking for him to look into the case, arguing that the funds for Land For Housing Programme was being misused for a different purpose.
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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has rejected the assertion of any wrongdoing by her Government. The Auditor-General did not quite agree with this statement, but did find that the new appropriation the Ministry for Housing and Urban Development had made had not gone through the proper Parlaimentary process. This new appropriation was made after Treasury said using the existing Land For Housing appropriation would not be proper.
The government will have to pass legislation to make the purchase of the land at Ihumātao lawful, because the ministry did not seek the right approvals for using the $29.9m.
The deal, made explicitly outside the Treaty of Waitangi process, ended one chapter in a long-running dispute over the land near Auckland Airport, which was once a site of market gardens for local iwi but was confiscated by the New Zealand Government in 1863. ACT leader David Seymour and National housing spokeswoman Nicola Willis both wrote to the Auditor-General asking for him to look into the case, arguing that the funds for Land For Housing Programme was being misused for a different purpose.
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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has rejected the assertion of any wrongdoing by her Government. The Auditor-General did not quite agree with this statement, but did find that the new appropriation the Ministry for Housing and Urban Development had made had not gone through the proper Parlaimentary process. This new appropriation was made after Treasury said using the existing Land For Housing appropriation would not be proper.
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Our chances of running a socialist style govt are slim with the vast network globally of neoliberal pirates sacking every community at will and literally bombing some countries with governments working for the common good.
But China, Vietnam and a few others are emerging with strong systems of public good arising out of throwing out the colonial scum that divided the population, fostered the elite and raped the resources, while feigning “Democracy and Freedom”
After the Russian revolution communist parties strengthened in the UK and USA scaring hell out of the wealthy ruling “elite” and so the viscous campaign of push-back began. Communist sympathetic organisations were infiltrated and the witch hunt included public propaganda against the revolution and all it stood for.