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# NZ Race Relations Roundup
- URL: https://goodoil.news/nz-race-relations-roundup-12/
- Published: 2021-01-17T18:52:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-01-17T18:53:20.000Z
- Author: General
- Tags: Media, News, NZ, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 02:38

[breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com](https://breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/?ref=goodoil.news)

**Monday 18 January 2021**

#### **News:**

**Shelly Bay occupiers plan to stick it out for five years**

An occupation at Wellington’s Shelly Bay has spread to include a former guard house and gardens above as occupiers pledge to stay on for five years or more if needed.

Dr **Catherine Love**, from the group **Mau Whenua**, said the only thing that would stop the occupation before 2026 was the return of Maori land to Wellington iwi Taranaki Whanui. The five years was not an upper limit, Love said.

Mau Whenua is made up mostly of members from Wellington iwi Taranaki Whanui opposed to an earlier sale of Taranaki Whanui land at Shelly Bay to developer Ian Cassels……  
[stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/wellington/123934854/shelly-bay-occupiers-plan-to-stick-it-out-for-five-years](https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0d30db118000ecc1497a44358&id=8315a21ba3&e=2997c41ba3&ref=goodoil.news)

**Shelly Bay: From a one-man-stand to an army**   
[stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/wellington/123932436/shelly-bay-from-a-onemanstand-to-an-army](https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0d30db118000ecc1497a44358&id=f71d1bf80a&e=2997c41ba3&ref=goodoil.news)

**Councillors back Taupo Maori wards decision as lobby group pushes petition**

Taupo has joined the list of districts where a council decision to establish Maori wards has come under fire from lobbyists.

The lobby group Hobsons Pledge, led by former National Party and ACT leader Don Brash, which campaigns against Maori seats, describing it as ‘preferential treatment given to Maori’, is sponsoring flyers in support of a petition to trigger a poll on the decision.

However, councillors in favour of the wards are standing by their original positions and advocating for the public to get informed on the issues…  
[stuff.co.nz/national/123958111/councillors-back-taup-mori-wards-decision-as-lobby-group-pushes-petition](https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0d30db118000ecc1497a44358&id=eaa415843f&e=2997c41ba3&ref=goodoil.news)

**Call to return the missing ‘wh’ to South Island Maori place names**

The misspelling of Whakaroa as Akaroa is one of many errors made by early South Island surveyors unable to hear the soft “wh” in Maori place names, says Sir **Tipene O’Regan**.

Others include Lake Wakatipu, which should be Whakatipu and the Ashburton River/Hakatere, which should be Whakatere.

Akaroa’s original name Whakaroa means “long harbour”…  
[stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/te-reo-maori/123767872/call-to-return-the-missing-wh-to-south-island-mori-place-names](https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0d30db118000ecc1497a44358&id=51c24f8e6b&e=2997c41ba3&ref=goodoil.news)

**Articles:**

**‘Driving a wedge on basis of race’**  
[gisborneherald.co.nz/column/20210116/driving-a-wedge-on-basis-of-race/](https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0d30db118000ecc1497a44358&id=24481e4393&e=2997c41ba3&ref=goodoil.news)

**Propaganda:**

**Balancing scales tilted for so long**  
[gisborneherald.co.nz/editorial/20210116/balancing-scales-tilted-for-so-long/](https://blogspot.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0d30db118000ecc1497a44358&id=1dfe654fd2&e=2997c41ba3&ref=goodoil.news)

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