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Today Willie Jackson talks to Piripi Walker about the recent spectrum hui.

Spectrum claimants want direct Crown negotiations

Monday 01 March 2010

Maori broadcasting claimants agreed at a weekend hui to enter direct negotiations with the Crown over the allocation of analogue spectrum which will become available with the nations switch to digital television by 2013.
 
Claimants included the New Zealand Maori Council and Nga Kaiwhakapumau i te Reo Maori.

Spokesperson Piripi Walker says this means there is a major interest under the Treaty of Waitangi and there is a huge opportunity for Maori.
 
The freed up spectrum is expected to be allocated into two blocks, one for digital television transmissions and another for 4G cellular and other wireless broadband technologies.
 
Mr Walker says with the Crown's initial decision to repatriate a lot of the spectrum licences back to the Government who would possibly auction it off raises a huge treaty question from Maoridom over rangatiratanga.
 
Under clause two of the Treaty of Waitangi Maori are guaranteed the exclusive possession of their lands, estates and other properties. (reference)
 
He says it came to a head over the last two years over what to do with the large chunks of licences that are going to be freed up.
 
"Who decides to alienate it and in the Crown's case sell it? I don't think te ao Maori would be running auctions on a scarce resource."
 
He says the reality is the corporation with the heaviest pockets and the largest cheque book gets 99 percent of the resource.
 
A Waitangi Tribunal decision in 1999 set out Maori rights to radio spectrum.
 
Mr Walker says the case received so much public mockery, yet in the High Court and the Court of Appeal this is one of the most successful claims of all the Treaty claims in terms of the percentage of wins in those quite conservative courts.
 
"Those quite crusty conservative old judges quickly cottoned on to this claim because it's about modernity, it's about the Maori world modernising and it's about opportunity in a new "green fields area."
 
Mr Walker says the next national hui for spectrum claimants is set for late May.
 

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