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Wahine Toa claim divides opinion 16 Dec 2020 08:03 AM Photo: Wikipedia. One of the women behind a Waitangi Tribunal claim on behalf of women in gangs says their right to make the claim is being challenged. Paula Ormsby, who has been working with Waikato’s Wahine Toa kingdom chapter of the Mongrel Mob, says the claim will identify how wahine Māori gang associates and their children are subject to the intergenerational trauma of colonisation and the ongoing breaches of the Treaty of Waitangi. She says they have drawn both support and criticism. "People see Wahine Toa as the Mongrel...

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. "It's about looking at the effects that gangs have had upon women and children, historically and to present day," says leader Paula Ormsby. Ormsby and member Cherie Kurarangi put forward the claim on...

Women's Mongrel Mob Chapter: Death threats, fighting domestic violence and feminism 12 Dec, 2020 04:00 PM 11 minutes to read Dennis Makalio: ‘Stop connecting abuse of women to the Mongrel Mob’. Video / Maori TV WARNING: This article references violence and sexual assault. Paula Ormsby, leader of the first women's Mongrel Mob chapter, takes Katie Harris into the Iron Dog pad and tells her about the reality of gang life a year on from launching the Wāhine Toa. "There were death threats, there were rape threats, there were violence threats." It came like a tsunami. Reaction to the...