In a media conference this morning in Waitangi, Green List MP Elizabeth Kerekere called for the end of perpetual leases on Māori reserve land – which can have fixed rent for 21-year periods with perpetual right of renewal by the lessee. “Māori landowners continue to be locked out of their own whenua by perpetual leases…
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The Green Party has called on the Government to end perpetual leases on Māori land, saying it rips off Māori landowners and is “unjust”. Green Party Māori Development spokesperson Elizabeth Kerekere said land reserved for Māori was leased to European settlers 120 years ago, “at the expense and serious disadvantage of those Māori landowners”. Read…