Perpetual leases are land grabs in poor disguise. Lands taken from Māori over 100 years back, tied up in perpetual leases that are handed down from generation to generation so the owners cannot their lands back short of spending millions to recover improvements made. In this video the whānau of a man who went off to fight for NZ in WW1 returned to find their lands taken. Some of his descendants are now homeless! This is not a one off exceptional story. If you care to watch the video the same pattern repeats over in the Taranaki. Keen to hear from the ‘one rule for all’ brigade. The government has no will to correct this. As the woman from this whānau points out, the land was taken by the stroke of a pen, it could be returned by the same. EWNZ