The more that traded rights under a capped water allocation look like a property right, the more the government has worried they would draw iwi claims and costly Treaty processes.
Sun, 12 May 2019
Everyone knows the old joke about the traveller who, on asking directions to a better place, is told he shouldn’t have started from here. But stepping back from it a little, we always start from here.
Policy never starts from a blank slate. The path to better policy always depends on where we
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