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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-1238/
- Published: 2025-06-24T18:30:29.000Z
- Updated: 2025-06-24T18:30:28.000Z
- Description: NZ First minister Shane Jones said New Zealand could no longer afford the ongoing negotiations with the country’s largest iwi after “well beyond $20 million” had been spent on the claim so far.
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Face of the Day, NZ Politics

> The government maintains it wants to settle with Ngāpuhi by 2040, amid warnings a New Zealand First bill forcing the iwi into a single settlement “closes the door” on negotiations.  
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> NZ First minister Shane Jones said New Zealand could no longer afford the ongoing negotiations with the country’s largest iwi after “well beyond $20 million” had been spent on the claim so far.  
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> Jones said the member’s bill his party is drafting will force Ngāpuhi into a single settlement, rather than multiple settlements with smaller groups.  
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> Treaty Negotiations Minister Paul Goldsmith indicated that although the government’s preference was for a single commercial settlement, all options remained on the negotiation table.  
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> Goldsmith said the negotiation period could not be open-ended.  
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> “We don’t want to impose an unrealistic deadline but likewise we don’t want things to go on past 2040, when we want to be celebrating our bicentenary.  
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> “I don’t think it can be open-ended, it can’t be as long as forever. I think we do need to make progress at some time, but we haven’t put an exact date on it.”  
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> NZ Herald

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