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Matauranga & the RMA !Realizing the potential: a Ngati Makino experience

Overview

!  No wai a Ngati Makino!

!  What does matauranga mean (to me)?!

!  How it all started!

!  What we did next!

!  What we have achieved!

!  What have we learn’t along the way?!

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He paruparu nga kai"He taniwha nga tangata

! Rarereiao o Waitaha!

! Nga tapuae: mai Te Awa o te Atua ki Mauao!

! Otamarakau centre of Makino nationhood!

!   Ngati Makino Claims Settlement Act 2011!


Ko te Mana te Matauranga !   Information belonging to whanau, hapu, iwi!

! Tipu ake, Tuku iho - New & Old information!

!   Adapted & Original!

!   Observation & theoretical!

!   Ecological & Technological!

!   Entrenched in reo rangatira!


The Day the Awa Died"where our journey began..!

!  The Winstones case!

!  Cameron Quarry Expansion!

! Waitahanui: awa tupuna, awa!


Waitahanui Awa tupuna

!   Identity!

! Kuha o Makino (source/headwaters)!

!   Home of Taunapaki!

!   Sustenance & safety!

!   Source of water for marae!

!   Significant ecological values!

Big drain

!   Quarry discharges & draw down!

!   Wastewater proposal (2011)!

!   Over-allocation of surface water (theoretical) !

!   Agricultural discharges!

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vs!

2nd Generation RPS !   Scope of appeal !!   Integrated management chapter!!   Water quantity chapter!!   Iwi Resource Management chapter!

!   Substantive hearing!!   Co-governance/co-management!!   Water management, IMFR’s, limits & allocation !

!   Taking on the Big Boys!!   Fonterra, Fed Farmers, Trustpower!

!   Outcomes!


He taonga te wai"challenges to RMA hierarchy

Makino submission

!   “With a cognisance of the usual hierarchical approach to considering the matters… the degree of interrelationship between the provisions tend to suggest that a contextual evaluation of the requirements could also be adopted so that they are considered together at every step of the planning process”!

EDS v King Salmon

!   Challenged accepted approach to decision making !!   Overall broad

judgement!!   Part 2 Section 5

hierarchy!

!   Must be applied in context!

!   Objectives & Policy not always just guiding!

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Variation 1 (Coastal Policy) !   Natural Character or Natural Features?!!   NZCPS Policy 13, 14 & 15!!   Natural character (areas, assessment methods,

attributes, policy)!! Matauranga Maori!

!   Strike out !!   Accusations included vexatious abusers of Courts

processes, resiled from mediated agreement!

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Comparative experience !   Ngati Ranginui engaged in 3 yr long process!

!   Decision insufficient and unacceptable!!   Cultural impacts ignored!!   Cumulative effects not addressed!!   Privatization of moana space for the elite - not

offset & removes ability to apply MACA!!   Natural character & other deficiencies!

!   59 interested parties including a hapu all opposing Ngati Ranginui appeal & relief!


Blazing the Trail "what we have achieved

!   Co-management of Waitahanui!

!   Mauri strong feature throughout policy statement!

!   Developing framework for determining cultural flow component for in-stream flow requirements!

!   Setting limits and allocation!

!   Established tuapapa for cultural allocation!

!   Established tuapapa for recognition and application of cultural attributes within framework for assessment of natural character!


Blazing the trail… !   Established tuapapa for co-governance arrangements!

!   Established tuapapa for co-management arrangements!

!   Established shift with accepted legal opinions on application of RMA hierarchy (basis of EDS v King Salmon arguments)!

!   Restoring Waitahanui lower reaches!

!   Developing innovative cultural effects monitoring & mitigation framework!

!   Achievements never before achieved!


Key constraints to growth !   Own worst enemies!

!   Reluctance to admit flaws !

!   Money over Mana!

! Mana before tangata!

!   Village instead of Vision!

! Puhaehae instead of puawai!

!   Institutional cover!

!   Destructive Treaty Settlement processes!He paruparu nga kai, he taniwha nga tangata 13

So what’s it got to do with matauranga?

Key messages!!   Kaitiakitanga is only constrained as much as we

allow it to be!! Rangatiratanga is not about getting paid !! Mana whenua can be respected & so can

kaitiakitanga!!   Wins realized through application of existing

matauranga and growth along the way!!   Opportunities not maximised!!   Opportunities to apply & grow matauranga within

the RMA framework are endless!

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