{"id":8072,"date":"2015-08-28T08:37:24","date_gmt":"2015-08-27T19:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=8072"},"modified":"2015-08-28T16:32:03","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T03:32:03","slug":"labour-contradicts-itself-on-ihumatao-soul-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=8072","title":{"rendered":"Labour contradicts itself on Ihumatao Soul campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"avatr\"<\/a>\u00a0Mana News editor Joe Trinder<\/p>\n

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SOUL (Save our unique landscape) have been lobbying Auckland council to avoid building housing on the culturally significant site at\u00a0Ihumatao in Mangere.<\/p>\n

Labour Auckland Councillor Alf Filipaina\u00a0voted against Councillor Cathy Casey\u2019s resolution to revoke the earlier recommendation to offer Ihumatao as an special housing area. Councillor Filipaina in effect\u00a0voted for\u00a0 Fletcher construction to build over the the top of Ihumatao\u00a0in\u00a0Mangere , which includes ancestral burial caves.<\/p>\n

Mr Filipaina said “To the community in Mangere I will not be giving false hope because that’s what I believe we will be doing if vote to revoke.”<\/p>\n

In a press release<\/a> yesterday Labour spokesperson Phil Twyford made this statement “Taihoa at Ihumatao says Labour<\/strong>“. An outright contradiction considering Labour councillor Alf Filipaina\u00a0is all for destroying the cultural heritage site at\u00a0Ihumatao.<\/p>\n

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Roger Fowler\u00a0the chair of ROCC (Respect our Community Campaign)\u00a0made this comment\u00a0“It’s certainly ain’t over until it’s over. And it won’t be over until Ihumatao is permanently protected from being further desecrated. Together we can do this – it’s our duty”<\/p>\n

A alternative site has been suggested by SOUL not far away in Ascot Rd. But the Mangere community is being ignored even by its own City Councillors.<\/p>\n

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Ihumatao and suggested housing area Ascot Rd.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When Housing Minister Nick Smith said he was going to build housing on cemetery’s he wasn’t joking.\u00a0How can centrist Labour criticise Nick Smiths\u00a0Special Housing Area in Mangere when it fully supports\u00a0the Housing Minister in principal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0Mana News editor Joe Trinder SOUL (Save our unique landscape) have been lobbying Auckland council to avoid building housing on the culturally significant site at\u00a0Ihumatao in Mangere. Labour Auckland Councillor Alf Filipaina\u00a0voted against Councillor Cathy Casey\u2019s resolution to revoke the earlier recommendation to offer Ihumatao as an special housing area. Councillor Filipaina in effect\u00a0voted for\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8072"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8072"}],"version-history":[{"count":43,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8120,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8072\/revisions\/8120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}