Next weekend the result of a long-awaited Treaty of Waitangi claim over Maori rights to native flora and fauna will be revealed.

The impacts of the global financial crisis hit are ingrained in our communities.

The organiser of a hikoi which marched peacefully down Auckland's Queen Street today says the new foreshore and seabed legislation breaches the Treaty of Waitangi.

Greedy "sharks" are already circling Te Runanga o Ngati Porou as it gears up to grow its $110m treaty settlement. The tribe's chairman has already received letters from outsiders promising all sorts of riches for the iwi if it would let