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# Things That Make Me Go Hmm
- URL: https://goodoil.news/things-that-make-me-go-hmm-184/
- Published: 2020-12-19T19:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-12-20T19:49:40.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Featured, NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 02:38

#### **Shelly Bay: Group discontinues High Court bid, ‘not ruling out’ other options**

> Iwi subgroup Mau Whenua has discontinued a High Court bid challenging the sale of land at Wellington’s Shelly Bay, but says **it is not ruling out other options.**  
>  
> Mau Whenua spokeswoman Kenny-Jean Sidwell confirmed to *Stuff* the discontinuance of High Court proceedings, which had been filed by the group over the controversial $500 million housing development.  
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> That meant a scheduled hearing for March next year will no longer go ahead…  
>  
> [stuff](https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/wellington/123762977/shelly-bay-group-discontinues-high-court-bid-not-ruling-out-other-options?ref=goodoil.news)

Why bother taking legal action when PM Jacinda Ardern’s $30 million payout to activist squatters for Ihumatao this week has made it very clear that the government, far from defending private property rights, will hand over big bags of cash to any Maori activist group prepared to squat for a year or more on land that they want.

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