TE ARAWA LAKES TRUST
Overview of Te Arawa Lakes Settlement
Act 2006
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Apology
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Financial and Annuity Redress
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Cultural Redress
OTHER TE ARAWA LAKES
Already owned by Iwi/Hapu:
• Lake Rotokakahi
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Lake Rotokawa
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Lake Rotokawau
APOLOGY
Apology and recognition of:
• Breaches of the TOW and its principles
• Actions that have had a negative impact on Te Arawa’s
rangatiratanga over the lakes and their use of lake resources
• Acknowledges the significant contribution that the Te Arawa
Lakes have made to tourism and the wealth of the NZ &
Rotorua
• Acknowledges the spiritual, cultural, economic and traditional
importance to Te Arawa
• Recognises the longstanding grievances of Te Arawa and that it
has failed to deal with those grievances
FINANCIAL
• $7.3 million to buy out annuity
• $2.7 million for breaches
• $400,000 capitalisation on 40 free fishing
licences
• $7.3 million invested upon signing of AIP
• Interest available to Te Arawa
• The difference paid once DOS signed
CULTURAL REDRESS
Aimed at restoring Te Arawa’s ability to
exercise its kaitiakitanga responsibilities in
relation to the Lakes:
• Ownership of 13 lakebeds
- Vesting of the lakebeds in Te Arawa
- Negotiate return of Lake Okaro
- Propriety rights
- Te Arawa/Crown relationship
TE ARAWA OWNERSHIP
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Ownership
Airspace
High water
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“Lake bed”
Water column
CULTURAL REDRESS (Cont)
Management of the Lakes:
• Rotorua Lakes Strategy Group:
- Te Arawa Lakes Trust
- Environment Bay of Plenty
- Rotorua District Council
• Formal Protocols with the Crown:
- DOC
- MFish
- MfE
- Min Arts Culture & Heritage
CULTURAL REDRESS (Cont)
Relationship Redress:
• Statutory Acknowledgements provide for :
- Crown to acknowledge Te Arawa’s cultural, spiritual, historical
and traditional association with the Lakes
- consent authorities to have regard to the SA
- consent authorities to forward to Te Arawa summaries of
resource consent applications
- Te Arawa to cite to consent authorities, the Historic Places
Trust and the Environment Court the SA as evidence of the
association
- consent authorities to attach the SA to statutory plans for the
purpose of public information
CULTURAL REDRESS (Cont)
Relationship Redress (cont):
• Promotion of Relationships between Te Arawa and other
organisations:
- Transit New Zealand
- National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
- Eastern Region Fish and Game Council
- Bay of Plenty Conservation Board
• Te Arawa Lakes Trust to meet with these organisations and work
with them regarding their roles relating to the Lakes
• Placenames – restoration of over 100 significant traditional Te
Arawa placenames
• Cultural harvests – Crown will encourage relevant local
authorities to amend their Plans to enable Te Arawa to take paru
and indigenous plants from Lakes without resource consent
CULTURAL REDRESS (Cont)
Te Arawa Freshwater Fisheries Regulation 2006
• Provides for regulations to be drafted that will enable Te Arawa
to:
- manage customary non-commercial fishing of certain
species in the Lakes
- authorise persons to take certain species for customary noncommercial purposes
- draft bylaws, for approval by the Minister of Fisheries,
restricting or prohibiting the taking of all or some certain
species in the Lakes
- establish a management committee
- recommend to the Minister that commercial fishing be
allowed for all or some of certain species in the Lakes
ENGAGEMENT WITH LOCAL
AUTHORITIES
Rotorua District Council
• Te Arawa Standing Committee
• Te Arawa Standing Committee Review
• Nga Matakokiri Review
• Te Whare Taonga O Te Arawa
• Iwi Consultative Group
• Lakes Structures Protocol
• Mayoral Forum
• Submissions on Plans & Developments
• Conduit between RDC consultants & Iwi
• Policy Planning & Implementation
ENGAGEMENT WITH LOCAL
AUTHORITIES
EBOP
• Harbour Master (Lakes Closures)
• Submissions on Plans & Developments
• Conduit between EBOP consultants & Iwi
• Policy Planning & Implementation
• Research & Monitoring
• Water Quality Focus Groups
ENGAGEMENT WITH LOCAL
AUTHORITIES
WBOPDC
• Maketu Strategy Committee
• WBOPDC Maori Advisory Committee
• Drafting of Maketu Community Development Plan
• Submissions on Plans & Developments
• Conduit between WBOPDC consultants & Iwi
• Policy Planning & Implementation
• Research & Monitoring
• Water Quality Focus Groups
RESEARCH & POLICY
DEVELOPMENT
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Mahinga Kai
SWPoA
Freshwater Management
Bioprospecting
Intellectual Property Rights
Te Arawa Tau Koura
Contaminants in Kai
Macrophytes
SHAMK Project
Vermicomposting of Lake Weeds
ENGAGEMENT WITH TE
ARAWA
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Whanau Development
Te Arawa Single Entity
Joint Registration Project with TKOTAW & TPTOTA
Naumaiplace Website Development
Te Pukenga Koeke O Te Arawa
Tarawera Trail
Te Rangatakapu
Institute of Directors Training
Matariki Celebration
Charitable Status Registration
Electoral Commission Workshop
Puarenga Catchment