Ihumātao: SOUL marks the beginning of the end

SOUL co-spokespeople Qiane Matata-Sipu and Pania Newton at Ihumātao.
Photo: RNZ / Simon Rogers
In a conference this afternoon, Save Our Unique Landscape (SOUL) group spokesperson Pania Newton said she had mixed feelings about today's announcement.
The group said the decision affirmed international commitments to indigenous rights and the place of tangata whenua in Aotearoa.
SOUL also thanked Kiingi Tūheitia Potatau Te Wherowhero Te Tuawhitu and his representatives for facilitating the resolution made today.
It said there was more work to do, but that today's resolution represented the start of the next phase in the process.
Photo: RNZ / Simon Rogers

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