Post by Kiwi Frontline on Aug 14, 2019 16:19:27 GMT 12
TO DEAL WITH IHUMĀTAO, JACINDA ARDERN MUST HEED LESSONS FROM HISTORY
A short history lesson. On May 25, 1978, as an aspiring young journalist, I stood on Bastion Point and watched 800 police and army personnel forcibly remove Māori occupiers, demolish buildings, destroy their gardens and arrest 220 people. It was an incredibly sad and moving sight.
A decade later, the government returned the land to Ngati Whatua, paying them compensation in a Treaty of Waitangi settlement.
Flash forward a few more decades and we have Ihumātao, not far from Auckland Airport, bordering the Ōtuataua Stonefields reserve, which displays evidence of Māori habitation dating back to the 14th century.
Another short history lesson. In 2004, Prime Minister Helen Clark made a rare misstep: she headed off a Treaty claim by vesting in the Crown the seabed and foreshore of New Zealand. That resulted in the birth of the Māori Party....
www.stuff.co.nz/national/114991182/to-deal-with-ihumatao-jacinda-ardern-must-heed-lessons-from-history
A short history lesson. On May 25, 1978, as an aspiring young journalist, I stood on Bastion Point and watched 800 police and army personnel forcibly remove Māori occupiers, demolish buildings, destroy their gardens and arrest 220 people. It was an incredibly sad and moving sight.
A decade later, the government returned the land to Ngati Whatua, paying them compensation in a Treaty of Waitangi settlement.
Flash forward a few more decades and we have Ihumātao, not far from Auckland Airport, bordering the Ōtuataua Stonefields reserve, which displays evidence of Māori habitation dating back to the 14th century.
Another short history lesson. In 2004, Prime Minister Helen Clark made a rare misstep: she headed off a Treaty claim by vesting in the Crown the seabed and foreshore of New Zealand. That resulted in the birth of the Māori Party....
www.stuff.co.nz/national/114991182/to-deal-with-ihumatao-jacinda-ardern-must-heed-lessons-from-history