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Using the Tauranga Racecourse land for housing has been taken off the table, with Tauranga City Council commissioners removing it as an option for future use of the site.

The health of Māori is a taonga (something treasured and valuable).

NEW ZEALAND is in the early stages of a revolution. No, not one of those revolutions. The streets are not overflowing with revolutionary crowds. The factories have not been taken over by the workers. The old constitutional order has not been cast aside. The nation’s historical time-line has not been reset to Year Zero. But, make no mistake, a revolution is underway. At the heart of this revolution is an evolving understanding of what sort of country we live in – and would like to live in....

However, before this could go ahead members of the community started camping on the land to register their opposition to the proposed development. The occupation grew steadily, and it was not long before the Prime Minister buckled to the pressure by calling in consultants to advise on the situation, with the taxpayer to foot the bill. So far $150,000 has been spent on consultants, with the recommendation unlikely to have been anything else other than what price the Crown should pay to exit t...

• Source:  1 NEWS The Government will buy the land at Ihumātao from Fletcher Building, in the first step to resolving the standoff for the disputed land in South Auckland. Protestors gather at the Ihumātao site next to Ōtuataua Stonefields Historic Reserve in Māngere, Auckland. Source: 1 NEWS More than a year after the Save Our U...

Mongrel Mob Wāhine Toa lodge first ever all-female gang Treaty of Waitangi claim 12 Dec, 2020 04:00 PM 6 minutes to read Paula Ormsby inside the Iron Dog gang pad in Hamilton. Photo / Brett Phibbs multimedia journalist at the Herald in Wellington@katieharrisnz The first Treaty of Waitangi claim filed by an all-female chapter of a gang has been lodged by the leader of the Mongrel Mob Wāhine Toa. "Its about looking at the effects that gangs have had upon women and children, historically and to ...