‘…The National Party is planning to deliver effective sovereignty of New Zealand’s foreshore and seabed – including our territorial sea out to the 12 mile limit – to Maori. While they have stated that only 10 percent of the coastline – 2,000 km – is expected to be privatised to Maori at this stage, as we all know, once this process starts, Maori sovereignty activists will not be satisfied until the 10 percent becomes 100 percent. That National is to take the country down this path without public mandate demonstrates an astonishing arrogance given that only a few short years ago they promised voters an end to race-based laws…’

Muriel Newman