Land

After decades of resistance, Mirarr people are celebrating that there will be no uranium mined at Jabiluka.

Steve Phillips and his brother Len have occupied a piece of real estate following a decision by Whai Rawa, the commercial arm of Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei, to lease the whenua.

The Public Works (Prohibition of Compulsory Acquisition of Māori Land) Amendment bill is a private member's bill to stop Māori land confiscations.

“I'm just immensely proud to be one of his descendants and to be standing on the whenua that he gifted.”