Submission Time!

(This Government Want to Destroy Our Conservation Land)

Jun 16, 2026

Natscum are the biggest party in the coalition government and they have form for wrecking the environment. Just ask Maggie Barry, the then-Minister of Conservation, about the pristine land she wanted flooded for a dam: concerned citizens took her to court to stop it. Or ask Maureen Pugh about her installing HER OWN helicopter tourism company in her region, after running the previous one out. I find these days a lot of ‘conservation’ is actually hysteria about ‘muh climate change!’. Our Department of Conservation DOES do sterling work, yet you’d be hard pressed to understand their decision to destroy tramper huts in our wilderness, for instance.

This government has a bill before the house, the Conservation Amendment Bill. These bloodless, moneygrubbing freaks want to open our conservation land for development: tourism, eco-dollars and land swaps. Yup, land swaps. So pristine, untouched native forest can be substituted for, say, 200 acres of scrub up north…land swaps for approved lease-holders. And these leases can be 40 or 60 years! Intergenerational malfeasance. Writ large. There are ‘safeguards’ in the legislation haha. Sure, Jan.

With clause insertions, guess who gets written notice about the proposed changes/leases/money changing hands? Iwi. Fucking snollygoster corporate whore iwi. What about trampers? Hikers? Walkers? People who enjoy dirt biking, sailing (lakes/rivers in our DoC land)? Farmers? Ordinary citizens? No, just unelected brownclown snollygoster filth. I use that term advisedly, as iwi are the business arm of being Maori, to my mind. And they aren’t interested in anybody or anything but their bank balance and growing it.

If they WERE, we wouldn’t have the racism of only consulting Maori about things. We wouldn’t have dead babies every five weeks. We wouldn’t have homeless people sleeping on a traffic island (just up the road in Waikanae) while there’s a marae right across the road. We wouldn’t be over half the prison population while only 17% of the people. We wouldn’t be the majority of crime victims either. It’s racism, pure and simple. Imagine if the law was written that only immigrants would be consulted about a law, say. Or just Croatians. I’m fucking sick of this two-tier, apartheid system whereby brownclowns who do NOT speak for majority of Maori, get a say on things they have no fucking clue about.

So section 4A needs to be removed in its entirety. Clauses 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13 of Schedule 2 all need removing. Worried about Maori and their rights. WHY? WHY DO MAORI HAVE ANY RIGHTS OTHER NEW ZEALANDERS DO NOT HAVE? I’m so over the racist bullshit being written into law.

Land exchanges, Section 15B and 15C: require consultation with Maori. What about all the other people in New Zealand? Fuck off.

These crywankers have also written in an indemnity clause for any authority member in new Section 6KA:

A member of the Authority is not subject to any civil or criminal liability for doing any act in good faith in the course of exercising or performing the Authority’s functions, duties, and powers under this Act.

Can’t you just see ‘I didn’t think it would/didn’t know/had no idea….’ being a perfectly cromulent defence as land exchanges go awry, in favour of <checks notes> racist, moneygrubbing Maori or somebody’s mate. If you think it won’t be abused, I have a bridge to sell you.

And let’s not forget to indemnify Board members in Section 6WA too!

A member of a Board is not subject to any civil or criminal liability for doing any act in good faith in the course of exercising or performing the Board’s functions, duties, and powers under this Act.

Compare and contrast us ordinary pleb’s rights with Maori:

14SHearings
(1) A submitter on a publicly notified application has no right to be heard on their submission.
(2) However, the Minister may give the submitter the opportunity to be heard.
Consultation with Māori groups
14TConsultation with Māori groups
(1) The Minister may invite written comments on an application from Māori groups with relevant interests.
(2) A group must provide any comments by the later of—
(a) 20 working days after the date on which the invitation is given; and
(b) if applicable, the time frame specified in the group’s Treaty settlement for input into applications for concessions if, cumulatively, that time frame is longer than 20 working days (or, if no particular time frame is specified, the time frame that applies in relation to statutory authorisations).
(3) However, the Minister may, by further written notice, extend the deadline.
(4) To avoid doubt, this section does not limit or affect any other obligation that the Minister has in relation to engagement with Māori groups with relevant interests in the application.

Nice to be some, hey? Writing racism into our laws.

14ZF1 is nice: ‘(1) The Minister may grant concessions for an activity by means of any allocation process that the Minister considers appropriate.’ So, the Minister can just make that shit up. Good to know.

Look at these insertions!

14ZYTerm of concessions
Lease or licence
(1) A lease or a licence may be granted for a term not exceeding 30 years (inclusive of any renewals permitted under the concession).
(2) Despite subsection (1), a lease or a licence may be granted for a term not exceeding 60 years if—
(a) there are exceptional circumstances; or
(b) the useful life of any fixed asset or structure of the activity is likely to be longer than 30 years; or
(c) the activity provides critical infrastructure.

So the limits have been extended way past one generation. What a rort!

15M is like the above clause, whereby submitters have no right to be heard. So much for democracy, amiright?

Section 16 is about introducing visitor amenities to our conservation land/pristine forests. Great idea! Restaurants, toilets, accommodation, car parks, gift shops, imagine that, all on a Minister’s say-so. On DoC land.

Section 38 gets a makeover and now hunting licences will be issued to hunt on conservation land. I have no problem with hunters, surely we have enough land for them already? Why open conservation land to hunting? It sounds like a free-for-all is going to happen.

Section 49 removes all duty to publish notices about the minister’s intentions in our press. Gone. No responsibility to inform us about it at all. But when a minister DOES, we have the right to object. And if you put in your submission you wish to be heard by the Director-General, you can. I wonder if that was an oversight on the meddler’s part, forgetting to remove that right.

I’ve only skimmed this bill and the racism seems entrenched, to offer iwi first bite of every-fucking-thing. I’ll just drop this meme right here: