BROOKERS MAORI LEGISLATION HANDBOOK 2008 is a comprehensive collection of Maori law legislation available in one bound volume. This is an essential reference for legal practitioners, local government bodies, kiwi representatives, Maori trust organisations, students and academics. The legislation has been selected and extracted from the Brookers Statutes and Regulations database, and contains extensive history and editorial notes. With handy thumb tabs, a comprehensive subject index and an alphabetical list of legislation, this portable and convenient handbook ensures quick and easy access to the information you need.

Brookers Maori Legislation Handbook collects together important acts, regulations and rules into an easily accessible and portable single volume. This unique publication will assist anyone working in the following areas of law: land, administrative, central and local government, environmental, resource management, fisheries, forestry and indigenous.

"Brookers property law legislation handbook 2020 consolidates into one volume the key legislation relevant to property and land law in New Zealand" -- provided by publisher.

BROOKERS LAWYERS AND CONVEYANCERS HANDBOOK contains the key legislation and rules relating to the new regime for New Zealand's lawyers and conveyancers. Consolidated to 1 April 2008. This is an essential reference for all legal practitioners and anyone else who is interested in the major changes being made to legal and conveyancing practice in New Zealand. The legislation has been selected and extracted from the authoritative Brookers Statutes and Regulations electronic database, and contains extensive history and editorial notes, as well as a client-friendly letter of engagement, developed by consultants Team Factors and LegalBestPractice. With handy thumbtabs, a comprehensive subject index and an alphabetical list of legislation, this portable and convenient handbook ensures quick and easy access to the information you need. BROOKERS LAWYERS AND CONVEYANCERS HANDBOOK includes legislation consolidated to 1 August 2008.

This book presents new material and shines fresh light on the under-explored historical and legal evidence about the use of the doctrine of discovery in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States. North America, New Zealand and Australia were colonised by England under an international legal principle that is known today as the doctrine of discovery. When Europeans set out to explore and exploit new lands in the fifteenth through to the twentieth centuries, they justified their sovereign and property claims over these territories and the indigenous peoples with the discovery doctrine. This legal principle was justified by religious and ethnocentric ideas of European and Christian superiority over the other cultures, religions, and races of the world. The doctrine provided that newly-arrived Europeans automatically acquired property rights in the lands of indigenous peoples and gained political and commercial rights over the inhabitants. The English colonial governments and colonists in North America, New Zealand and Australia all utilised this doctrine, and still use it today to assert legal rights to indigenous lands and to assert control over indigenous peoples. Written by indigenous legal academics - an American Indian from the Eastern Shawnee Tribe, a New Zealand Maori (Ngati Rawkawa and Ngai Te Rangi), an Indigenous Australian, and a Cree (Neheyiwak) in the country now known as Canada, Discovering Indigenous Lands provides a unique insight into the insidious historical and contemporary application of the doctrine of discovery.

New Zealand is one of the world's oldest democracies for men and women, Maori and Pakeha, with one of the highest political participation rates. But—from MMP to leadership primaries, spin doctors to "dirty politics"—the country's political system is undergoing rapid change. Examining the constitution and the political system, cabinet and parliament, political parties, leadership, and elections, Raymond Miller draws on data and analysis (including from the 2014 election) to tackle critical questions: Who runs New Zealand? Does political apathy threaten democracy? Will new parties have an ongoing impact? Do we now have a presidential democracy?

In an era of climate change, the need to manage our water resources effectively for future generations has become an increasingly significant challenge. Indigenous management practices have been successfully used to manage inland water systems around the world for thousands of years, and Indigenous people have been calling for a greater role in the management of water resources. As First Peoples and as holders of important knowledge of sustainable water management practices, they regard themselves as custodians and rights holders, deserving of a meaningful role in decision-making. This book argues that a key (albeit not the only) means of ensuring appropriate participation in decision-making about water management is for such participation to be legislatively mandated. To this end, the book draws on case studies in Australia and New Zealand in order to elaborate the legislative tools necessary to ensure Indigenous participation, consultation and representation in the water management landscape.