Ihumatao no Bastion Point, says acting PM Peters

Ihumatao no Bastion Point, says acting PM Peters
Pattrick Smellie
By Pattrick Smellie July 29 (BusinessDesk) - Acting Prime Minister Winston Peters rejects suggestions the protests over historic Maori stonefields at Ihumatao, near Auckland Airport, are today's equivalent to the Bastion Point protest of the mid-1970s, although he does describe the stand-off as a "potential crisis". Speaking at a post-Cabinet press conference instead of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who is in Tokelau, Peters also insisted the only people with a right to participate in settling the dispute over the land were those who'd "...

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