29 Jul 2019

Ihumātao: Protestors staying until land is safe

From Morning Report, 6:42 am on 29 July 2019

Hundreds of people continue to occupy the whenua in Māngere to stop a special housing development from being built on ancestral land near Auckland airport.

On Friday, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern vowed that no building would take place at Ihumātao while the government and other parties try to broker a solution.

But protestors are refusing to move until the land is safe from development.

RNZ's Meriana Johnsen is at Ihumatao and speaks to Gyles Beckford.