Harawira wants to outlaw foreign ownership
Maori party maverick MP Hone Harawira wants to ban the sale of land to foreigners.
Mr Harawira said today he was seriously considering writing a bill to outlaw the sale of New Zealand land to overseas interests.
“The Maori land march to Wellington 35 years ago had as its slogan, ‘not one acre more’ because Maori were scared about how much Maori land was being gobbled up by the Crown,” he said.
“The funny thing is that if government has passed legislation back in 1975 to keep that land forever in Maori hands, we wouldn’t be moaning so much about the sale of New Zealand lands to foreigners today.”
Mr Harawira said the Crafar farms deal, which has a high profile bid from Hong Kong-based buyers, and a Marlborough Sounds farm which recently received approval to be sold to Americans, were highly visible examples of the problem.
“If foreigners want to do business or have a holiday house here, that’s fine – let them lease or pay rent,” he said.
Mr Harawira said about 27 million hectares had been sold to foreign interests under both National and Labour parties.
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We can always sell it now and claim it back for free later?
Mr Racist should have been fired long ago, why do we care what he thinks?
And he should also outlaw buying imported goods using borrowed money.
Oops - that we cannot do because New Zealanders love to borrow overseas!
Give us your money but don't you dare ask us to work or sell you our land.
And he should also outlaw buying imported goods using borrowed money.
Oops - that we cannot do because New Zealanders love to borrow overseas!
Give us your money but don't you dare ask us to work or sell you our land.
Any real wealth that has been created in NZ has been funded from offshore money. Hone would like to go back to starvation and poverty, not the rest of us. Land is never owned, it is occupied by whoever is there at the time.
I guess anybody who is not a Maori is a foreigner!!!! but they belong in Hawaii- so nobody can own land.
Actually I agree with him, but identifying the bad guy's is going to be hard.
Ha, ha. You're so right, Nestor. That strategy has worked well in the present. No reason why it couldn't be used again in the future. So no need to worry, Hone.
Smaller lots-life style blocks are o.k. BUT NO to large tracts of land such as the Crafar farms. It just doesn't make sense to allow anyone to buy all those farms AND then build a dairy factory. That's the problem because they will put " MADE IN NEW ZEALAND" on the label . Methinks THAT IS WHAT they are buying. Plus a food source for the future of course.
Oh , forgot to say-those of us born here,or those having attained citizenship, is a KIWI. They are not former Hawaiins Mr . Identity-they came from Rarotonga. We've seen the canoe departure points and canoe anchor rocks several times.
Wonder why the guy who changed his name to HARAWIRA ,refuses to talk about the 6TH CENTURY SETTLERS ,WHO CAME TO NZ FIRST OUCH.!.
Idiot ignorant racist people, you have already sold all of our resources to overseas interests, why the hell would you folk sell the land under your very feet! You will only end up belonging here in some disconected proxi way, oh yeah you dont have any real connections to the land anyway, thats why its being raped for every $ you can squeeze out of it. I can see why Harawira sounds like a radical to you all.... he speaks in a lanuage called common sense, obviously not so common to the readers who comment in this issue of Business Reveiw.
You are an idiot, still trotting out the same idiot "I was here first" claptrap... keep sayin so dont make it so fool. It is only an idiot who would confine maori to the 7 waka, turned up in 1030ad or some rediculashole date like you have.... ILMFAO
Idiot
@idiot pakeha yep ,you hit it right on the button,
and people not born here in nz should not be allowed to vote either.those who think this country is going to end up broke if this bill comes in to affect.Need to pack up and leave.
If you people prefer not to sell your land to foreigners then good on you, but I'll do what I like with what I own. With the profit I make by selling to a foreigner at an inflated price with no capital gains tax, I can afford to migrate somewhere where they don't have a bunch of racist maori bludging off the rest of the nation, a giant socialist govt., or an idiotic ETS. Perhaps if the country is ever taken over by Chinese then maori might consider how much better it was before tax paying white people left NZ. Either way, they'll still be better off than if they ran NZ themselves due to the fact that a bludger can't bludge off another bludger.
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