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Chathams Governance Failure

1 items · 1 aliases · peaked week of 29 Mar 2026 · first seen 11 May 2026

A podcast episode where Shane Jones, as Resources Minister, addresses issues including satellite-powered virtual fencing for farmers, critiques Sir Ian Taylor’s anti-mining stance and claims of hypocrisy, challenges activist actions in fisheries, and responds to the ongoing fuel-

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  • Now, sadly, I've made a career out of perfecting the words of an apology, but I just want everyone to bear in mind that the fishing industry is all throughout the Chathams, on the matter of the Chathams, I'm very unhappy with their leadership over there. They want me to give them $65 million worth of scampi quota for the Chathams, but that's never going to happen now. They will never ever, until they tidy up their own institutional governance of the Chathams, ever. get any SNAP credit from the crowd.
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the-country Government / N-A

condemning poor institutional leadership in fisheries

The Country 02/04/26: Shane Jones talks to Jamie Mackay
2 Apr
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