ANALYSIS: For all of its flaws, there was something comforting about the way tenure review united groups that are often in conflict. Many farmers and conservationists had come to resent tenure review, albeit for different reasons; the minister responsible for LINZ, Eugenie Sage, had once called tenure review "the greatest wave of privatisation since Rogernomics" and repeatedly pointed out it had been "heavily criticised" when she announced its cancellation this week. But the clearest sign that tenure review was done came in that internal review. One of the earlier leases to go through tenure review was Alphaburn Station, which has a long frontage with Lake Wanaka. But the law underpinning tenure review said land capable of economic use should be privatised, and so it was.

Source: Stuff February 14, 2019 04:30 UTC