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PDF Library

The following pdf documents may be downloaded. To view requires Acrobat Reader (free).

PANZ newsletters

PANZ order form for "hard" copies

PANZ monographs

PANZ order form for "hard" copies

Natural-recreational areas planning and management

South Island high country

Crown Land

Crown Forests

Public Roads

(Part Two: Statutes relating to highways not reproduced)

Land ownership - general

Public access - general

The Queen's Chain

History and general

The following documents from NGO archives record two major campaigns to protect the Queen's Chain. Such campaigns were unprecedented in NZ. The documentation provides an insight into the politics, and monumental effort, behind effective citizen action.

Queen's Chain Campaign 1989-91

Background to legislative changes (1988)

1989

1990

1991

Queen's Chain Campaign 1993-96

Esplanade Reserve Amendments 1993

Rivers, Lakes

Sea, Foreshores

Election Policy

Mt Hikurangi and judical review

 

Treaty of Waitangi, History, Race Relations and the Constitution

The following is a collection of publications that contribute to debate about the Treaty of Waitangi and its implications for public access to the New Zealand outdoors. The critical interpretations and viewpoints advanced by authors are not necessarily shared by PANZ, unless directly attributed to our organisation.

PANZ has reproduced these publications for two reasons -

· First, the issues traversed in the articles bear directly or indirectly on public rights to outdoor resources that PANZ is committed to safeguarding from alienation by parochial interests. In this case, the alienation is culturally motivated, but PANZ does not distinguish this threat to the public interest from those arising from commercial, recreational or other self-interested agencies. All are disenfranchising in their effect.

· Second, PANZ has an interest in promoting informed debate on what we perceive to be the risks to public interests in the outdoors. The articles presented below function either as critical views that challenge cultural arguments for alienation of public lands, or they function as background material. The content of many articles may appear unrelated to our objectives. However our experience is that developments in one area have an almost instantaneous spillover effect elsewhere.

PANZ acknowledges that publication of these articles implies a position that takes a sceptical view of current liberal orthodoxy on Treaty of Waitangi issues. Our organisation believes that this critical approach is healthy. Not only is the debate on Treaty ramifications for the outdoors characterised by an alarming paucity of critical review, but the absence of such review encourages the conditions under which New Zealanders' interests in public lands are compromised or extinguished, often without comment or public knowledge.

In PANZ's experience, the introduction of cultural considerations, especially those relating to Maori, has subdued debate conspicuously. In this intimidating environment, local and central government policies and practices have arisen, along with iwi expectations, which have intruded on broader public interests and rights. We have challenged some of these practices directly, and intend to confront others. Through our successes, central Government has been reminded forcefully of its obligations to consult meaningfully with its greater public constituency over the use of public lands in Treaty settlements or in other circumstances.

Ultimately, PANZ is committed to protecting the more socially significant principle that New Zealand's public lands belong to all New Zealanders regardless of ethnicity, social position or belief. Collective ownership, and its expression in equality of access to publicly owned lands, derives from citizenship in a democratic, egalitarian society. The principle of equality is explicit in Article Three of the Treaty itself.

History

Treaty interpretation

Treaty claims and 'settlements'

Race relations and national identity

 

Official Documents

Treaty Settlements and other agreements

DOC's Pastoral Tenure Review Standard Operating Procedures

 

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