Nearly $100 million has been made available for the tenure review of South Island high country farms in the next year, despite the Government's move to can the controversial process. The Budget allocated more than $96.1m to tenure review for 2019-20 and showed $24.945m was spent in the 2018-19 year. Places like this area are affected by the tenure review of the high country. "It's in stark contrast to the minister's messages that I heard and read from her – specifically the message that the decision to stop tenure review was not up for consultation. "The tenure review process will not actually stop until legislation is passed in Parliament.

Source: Stuff June 10, 2019 03:56 UTC