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Ihumatao win shows power of new generation 21 Dec 2020 15:06 PM Photo: Radio Waatea Image Database.
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Greens co-leader Marama Davidson says a deal for the crown to buy out Fletcher Building from the Ihumātao development shows the day of reckoning is coming for tiriti justice.
She says it’s a massive win for the commitment and campaign skills of the Save Our Unique Landscape group, who the Greens have supported since they first occupied the land next to the Otuataua Stonefields.
It now puts the future of the land in the hands of ahi kaa and mana whenua.
Editorial: Grievances can be appeased at Ihumātao
19 Dec, 2020 04:00 PM
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The Māori words for self-determination are spelt out at Ihumātao. Photo / Sylvie Whinray, File
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EDITORIAL
There are several reasons why Ihumātao is important - many of them embedded in the past but resounding still today. Early ancestors connected to the land include Mataaho, after who Ihumātao, or Te Ihu o Mataaho (the nose of Mataaho) is named, according to an account by Auckland War Memorial Museum history curator Lucy Mackintosh.
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Archaeologists have also confirmed Māori were present on the Māngere-Puhinui coastline by around 1450 and were gardening on the lava fields at Ihumātao by the end of the 1500s.
Ihumātao campaigners say they re relieved and looking forward to a rest after the Government bought the contested land in South Auckland.
EDITORIAL: Let’s get the hyperbole out of the way first. The Government reaching a deal over the disputed land at Ihumātao, south of Auckland, is not “the equivalent of the US President siding with Antifa over the businesses they vandalise,” as Act leader David Seymour put it on Thursday. Some might detect an unpleasant dog-whistle in Seymour’s comments, which evoke the racially polarised battlegrounds of the US in 2020. He unfairly equates the peaceful occupation of Ihumātao with the destructive street violence seen in US cities.
Everything on the table as Ihumatao solution sought 18 Dec 2020 08:03 AM Photo: Radio Waatea Image Database.
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A Kiingitanga spokesperson says the crown’s purchase of a disputed block at Ihumātao is just one step towards trying to find a resolution of a 150-year grievance.
The Government yesterday announced it was paying Fletcher Building $29.9 million for the so-called Wallace Block, which the company was blocked from developing when it was occupied 18 months ago.
Rahui Papa says the fate of the land is now in the hands of a Rōpu Whakahaere steering group consisting of three ahi kaa representatives, one from the Kingitanga and two from the crown, which will discuss what can be done with it.