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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=100 BGCOLOR="#CCCCFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="04300640egdysm.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000066" FACE="Arial" ><B>Outdoor Recreation New Zealand</B></FONT><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Arial" ><B> </B></FONT><B>    |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Outdoor Recreation New Zealand"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>History</B>   |   <A HREF="id18.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Outdoors Policy"><U>Outdoors Policy</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id26.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Media Releases"><U>Media Releases</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id20.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Membership Form"><U>Membership Form</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id28.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Publications Library"><U>Publications Library</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id21.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Gallery"><U>Gallery</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id27.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Links"><U>Links</U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=200 BGCOLOR="#A6CAF0" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B>POLICIES of </B></div> <div> <B>OUTDOOR RECREATION NZ</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Ensure unrestricted Public Access to Public Land.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Ensure government agencies and local bodies fulfill their statutory obligations with aspect to Queen's chain, legal roads, marginal strips, easements and other legal mechanisms.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Restrict foreign and other ownership of New Zealand land where access to public land is not fully protected.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Ensure Government departments involved in the implementation of the Crown Tenure Review negotiations fully realise their obligations to New Zealanders in regards access to the resulting public lands.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Appoint an Access Ombudsman.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Promote legislation that ensures a priority legal right for all New Zealanders to gather seafood and have access to quality marine food resources. Following discussions with major salt water fishing groups our policies have been amended and authorised by the Council</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Ensure that all New Zealanders have a priority right over commercial fishers, to a reasonable daily bag limit, and have the ability to exclude commercial methods that may deplete recreationally important areas.  </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Ensure no licensing of salt-water recreational fishing and no licensing for the gathering of seafood for non-commercial purposes.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Ensure that recreational fishing and seafood gathering opportunities are not disadvantaged by the establishment of Marine Reserves. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Consult with all agencies and groups to plan for future generations to enjoy their legal right to take fish, while preventing fish conserved for recreational use being allocated to the commercial sector. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Promote the improvement of water quality in rivers, lakes, streams and the marine environment</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Support environmental agencies in implementing water quality standards.</B></div> <div> <B>Require government agencies and local bodies to consider the rights of outdoor sportspeople in their decisions pursuant to the RMA.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Ensure the rights of all affected parties are considered in any water resource usage approval that may be detrimental to one or more user of that resource.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Restrict the use of toxins that have the potential to harm the health, economic well being and recreational requirements of New Zealanders.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Ensure full accountability to the NZ public by those who use and apply poisons, toxins, or any modified biological agents or organisms in the NZ environment.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Protect local community interests and the New Zealand clean green image.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Consider alternative methods of control for pests such as possums, stoats, ferrets and weasels e.g. bounty.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Support recreational hunting and harvesting of  game animals</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Game animals to be recognised and managed as a valuable, sustainable resource.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Ensure that the ownership of all game animals remains vested in the Crown until lawfully taken.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Ensure the retention of the prohibition on the sale of shooting rights on public land.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Ensure that recreational hunters have equal rights with commercial operators (including safari operators) to the access and harvest of game animals on public lands.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Promote responsible firearm  ownership</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Ensure the maintenance of a system of lawful private ownership of firearms by fit and proper persons without undue cost and formality.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Regularly seek counsel from New Zealand's outdoor recreational organisations, lobby groups and users</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Gain information and advice on policy and issues of concern.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Strive to reach consensus between outdoor recreation groups.</B></div> <div> <B>Advocate in Parliament and elsewhere on behalf of NZ outdoor recreational users.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Review and reform legislation to reflect the policies of OUTDOOR RECREATION NZ,  including but not necessarily limited to:</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Overseas Investment Act 1973, </B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Biosecurity Act 1993,</B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">National Parks  Act  1980,</B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Land Act 1948,</B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Crown Pastoral Land Act 1998,</B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Fisheries Act 1983 and 1996,</B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Wild Animal Control Act 1977,</B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Marine Reserves Act 1971,</B></div> <div> <B>Arms Act 1983</B></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=380 BGCOLOR="#A6CAF0" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>History</I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>OUTDOOR RECREATION NZ</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> Dear Outdoor Recreation Enthusiasts,</div> <bR> <div> Recent decades have seen the rapid erosion of sporting rights, resources and opportunities for outdoor sportspeople…</div> <bR> <div> This letter describes the very simple idea of political representation for all outdoor sportspeople throughout New Zealand. By forming a political party to contest the Party Vote in the next general election we will make our views known and make a very bold political statement. Many of us are disenchanted with the degradation of our rights, resources and opportunities and wish to redress the imbalance prevalent in NZ today.</div> <bR> <div> As our rights and resources are continually eroded, it becomes apparent that we can rely on no other group to protect our outdoor interests and sporting heritage. In the past, outdoor sporting groups have failed to unite together to face real threats to our outdoor pursuits to our own detriment. Lobbying government has never been effective. Now is the time to work together to ensure our rights and resources are not eroded any further.</div> <bR> <div> OUTDOOR RECREATION NZ was registered as a political party by the Electoral Commission on the 8<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >th</FONT> March 2002.   Financial members exceed 3,400 which include people with the following interests:</div> <bR> <div> Saltwater fishing - Freshwater trout and salmon angling - - Deerstalking - Tramping -Whitebaiting - Mountain biking - Game bird and small game hunting - Target shooting - 4 Wheel Driving  - Pig Hunting - - Rafting - Jet boating - Marine pleasure boating -Diving- Mountaineering- Kayaking- Horse trekking - Protecting the environment-  skiing, snowboarding and others .</div> <bR> <div> The advent of the MMP electoral system has given outdoor sportsmen and women of New Zealand the realistic option of pursuing our own self-determination and independence. </div> <div> We have below a list of some perceived grievances that NZ Outdoor sportspeople have bought to our attention:</div> <bR> <div> Loss of public access to public resources</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Over-exploitation of inshore saltwater fisheries by commercial interests</div> <div> Widespread aerial 1080 poisoning campaigns</div> <div>  Pollution of inland waterways</div> <div> Gun control measures that marginalise law-abiding firearms owners</div> <div> DOC policies adversely impacting sporting interests throughout New Zealand</div> <div> Government Departments, Regional Councils and current MP's in general ignoring the ideals that outdoor sportspeople cherish.</div> <bR> <div>       Research has shown that overseas groups have been very successful with such organised political parties in national elections. For example in France, hunters formed a party and took 7% of the national vote in  elections. They held the balance of power in the French Parliament and gained major concessions for their members! <B>This is called democracy!!</B></div> <bR> <div> If, as commonly said, one million Kiwis hunt, fish and pursue other outdoor sports  we could claim a sizeable chunk of the Party vote . <B>With 5%+ of the Party Vote we would have MPs in Parliament representing your interests. </B>Think about the benefits. Be positive and help to safeguard your outdoor interests from further attack and neglect. <B>WE NEED YOUR HELP.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>OUTDOOR RECREATION  NZ  is a single Focus political party formed to represent the interests of </B><B><U>all</U></B><B> outdoor recreational sportspeople throughout New Zealand. </B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><U>Principles of OUTDOOR RECREATION NZ </U></B></div> <bR> <div> OUTDOOR RECREATION NZ is dedicated to preserving the heritage of the outdoor sportspeople of New Zealand.</div> <bR> <div> OUTDOOR RECREATION NZ is committed to ensuring sensible management of all New Zealand outdoor sporting resources.</div> <bR> <div> The Party has been established with the over-riding aim of promoting and supporting the rights to all outdoor recreational and sporting activities that New Zealanders enjoy and to ensure that no impediments are maintained or created by Government or any other body to deny or restrict the access of all citizens to those activities.</div> <bR> <div> In all other matters the Party will act in a responsible manner and will support stable government.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> Policies of OUTDOOR RECREATION NZ     </div> <bR> <div> Ensure unrestricted public access to public land.</div> <bR> <div> Promote legislation that ensures a priority legal right for all New Zealanders to gather seafood and have access to quality marine food resources</div> <bR> <div> Promote the improvement of water quality of rivers, lakes, streams and the marine environment.</div> <bR> <div> Restrict the use of toxins that have the potential to harm the health, economic well being and recreational requirements of New Zealanders</div> <bR> <div> Support recreational hunting and harvesting of game animals     </div> <bR> <div> Promote responsible firearm ownership</div> <bR> <div> Regularly seek counsel from New Zealand's outdoor recreational organisations, lobby groups and users</div> <bR> <div> Review and reform legislation to reflect the policies of OUTDOOR RECREATION NZ.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> WHAT YOU CAN DO TO SUPPORT US</div> <bR> <div> Join OUTDOOR RECREATION NZ     Send $10 and become a member</div> <div>  Introduce another member</div> <div> Photocopy this or Email to your friends and family and sporting groups</div> <div> If you do not wish to be a member- be a supporter and send a donation</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> P.O.Box 36381, Northcote, Auckland</div> <div> Email: <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="mailto:info@outdoorrecreation.co.nz" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:info@outdoorrecreation.co.nz"><U><U>info@outdoorrecreation.co.nz</U></U></A></FONT>   Website: <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.outdoorrecreation.co.nz" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.outdoorrecreation.co.nz"><U><U>www.outdoorrecreation.co.nz</U></U></A></FONT> </div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>