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Meanwhile, local Whaingaroa iwi are supporting Greenpeace's bid
to parliament to stop the drilling.
Meanwhile, a leading academic is encouraging Maori
to explore options in the oil and gas industry.
Auckland Business School lecturer Manuka Henare says
Maori could learn a lot from indigenous people in South Asia
and the Pacific
in benefitting from indigenous rights to natural resources.
Manuka Henare goes on to say
that the people of Arabia did not gain anything
from their own resources until they took their case to America,
and now they are leaders in their own country and internationally.