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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 this mess, which will subsequently open the door for future scenarios like this. RICKY WILSON/Stuff P...

• 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 Unique Landscape (SOUL) occupied the land and claimed mana whenua, a binding memorandum of understand...

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...