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Speaker 1: Of course it was never five percent, was it. It

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Speaker 1: was always spitballing what he was doing spitballing Paul Goldsmith

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Speaker 1: as the Treaty Minister. He's in a meeting with the

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Speaker 1: seafood people who are not happy about their lack have

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Speaker 1: been put into the government's foreshore plan to revert a

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Speaker 1: court ruling back to the original intent of the law

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Speaker 1: as it was passed in twenty eleven, Goldsmith, it was reported,

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Speaker 1: said customary title will drop to five percent. TV one

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Speaker 1: fell over themselves breathlessly reporting this as some sort of

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Speaker 1: scandal on Sunday. Come Monday, in the PM's post cabinet session,

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Speaker 1: they try and get more detail. The PM quite clearly

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Speaker 1: says the reason the government are doing what they're doing

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Speaker 1: is because the court is overreached and what the Government

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Speaker 1: of the day intended has been distorted. An amendment of

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Speaker 1: Section fifty eight is how they're going to address this.

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Speaker 1: The original law was simple, if you can prove you

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Speaker 1: had uninterrupted access to the foreshore since eighteen forty, you've

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Speaker 1: got a case. If you can't, you haven't. Groups who

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Speaker 1: didn't like the law or the government went to court.

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Speaker 1: The court, being activist, got overly involved and we ended

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Speaker 1: up where we are. All the government, as the PM was,

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Speaker 1: it pains to tell the assembled press wanted to do

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Speaker 1: was make the law the law, and why are because

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Speaker 1: they're the government and that's what governments do. As far

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Speaker 1: as I am aware as a consumer of the news

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Speaker 1: that but wasn't reported by yesterday some media I note,

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Speaker 1: both state funded. Funly, we're still banging on about Goldsmith

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Speaker 1: and as five percent. The point they're missing, and I

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Speaker 1: suspect deliberately is courts don't make the law. Governments do.

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Speaker 1: If you want to mark Goldsmith down a bit, I mean,

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Speaker 1: maybe he shouldn't free wheel with numbers given if you

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Speaker 1: apply just a little bit of brain power to it.

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Speaker 1: No one knows what the actual number by way of

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Speaker 1: a percentage will be when it comes to access. But

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Speaker 1: it wasn't a scandal, It wasn't a gotcha moment. It

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Speaker 1: was a passing comment in a meeting about the intent

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Speaker 1: of the government of the day and what they were

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Speaker 1: going to do to address what they see as an

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Speaker 1: activist court that had distorted intent around an increasingly fractious subject.

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Speaker 1: This would be another example I think of an activist

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Speaker 1: media taking the side of an activist court and trying

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Speaker 1: to drum up scandal around a government they don't like

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Speaker 1: on a law they like even less. And if you

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Speaker 1: apply logic and follow it as I have failing For

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