Maanu Paul
Maanu Paul was co-chairman of the New Zealand Maori Council.
In 2012, he was involved in a legal challenge of the Fifth National Government's programme of partial privatisation of state-owned assets.
Paul has been involved in a number of claims to the Waitangi Tribunal, including a claim into the Government's review of the 1962 Maori Community Development Act.
Paul has also highlighted the danger that falling carbon credits in the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme pose to Maori commercial ventures. He advocated the stopping of international carbon credits from being valid in the New Zealand scheme, in order to increase the price of carbon.Personal life
In 2013, it was reported that Paul had cancer and had undergone chemotherapy.
