11 Jul 2019

Applicants may not live to see results of coastline title

From Morning Report, 8:49 am on 11 July 2019

Maori wanting customary title of their coastlines say the process is taking so long they're worried many people will die of old age without living to see justice for their people.

Applicants had a 2017 deadline to apply for customary title.

Nearly 400 approached the Crown for direct negotiation and two-hundred have filed to argue their case in the High Court under the Marine and Coastal Area or Takutai Moana Act.

But as Mani Dunlop reports, frustration at delays is growing.