I make this submission from the Ōrākei clinic where I work, on the 25th of May 2026. This morning, people gathered just down the road at Takaparawhau — Bastion Point — to commemorate the 506 days of peaceful occupation that Ngāti Whātua ō Ōrākei undertook to resist the government of the day from taking the last few acres of their lands. Eventually the Crown apologised, stating that it "profoundly regrets and is deeply sorry for its actions" and that those actions "had devastating consequences for the . . . well-being of Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei." The settlement legislation records that the Crown "unreservedly apologises for not having honoured its obligations to Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei under the Treaty of Waitangi."
The Waitangi Tribunal's WAI 2575 inquiry found explicit Crown failures in Māori health access and called for active protection. History is repeating. Pharmac is complicit.
I make this submission from the Ōrākei clinic where I work, on the 25th of May 2026. This morning, people gathered just down the road at Takaparawhau — Bastion Point — to commemorate the 506 days of peaceful occupation that Ngāti Whātua ō Ōrākei undertook to resist the government of the day from taking the last few acres of their lands. Eventually the Crown apologised, stating that it "profoundly regrets and is deeply sorry for its actions" and that those actions "had devastating consequences for the . . . well-being of Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei." The settlement legislation records that the Crown "unreservedly apologises for not having honoured its obligations to Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei under the Treaty of Waitangi."
The Waitangi Tribunal's WAI 2575 inquiry found explicit Crown failures in Māori health access and called for active protection. History is repeating. Pharmac is complicit.
I make this submission from the Ōrākei clinic where I work, on the 25th of May 2026. This morning, people gathered just down the road at Takaparawhau — Bastion Point — to commemorate the 506 days of peaceful occupation that Ngāti Whātua ō Ōrākei undertook to resist the government of the day from taking the last few acres of their lands. Eventually the Crown apologised, stating that it "profoundly regrets and is deeply sorry for its actions" and that those actions "had devastating consequences for the . . . well-being of Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei." The settlement legislation records that the Crown "unreservedly apologises for not having honoured its obligations to Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei under the Treaty of Waitangi."
The Waitangi Tribunal's WAI 2575 inquiry found explicit Crown failures in Māori health access and called for active protection. History is repeating. Pharmac is complicit.
I make this submission from the Ōrākei clinic where I work, on the 25th of May 2026. This morning, people gathered just down the road at Takaparawhau — Bastion Point — to commemorate the 506 days of peaceful occupation that Ngāti Whātua ō Ōrākei undertook to resist the government of the day from taking the last few acres of their lands. Eventually the Crown apologised, stating that it "profoundly regrets and is deeply sorry for its actions" and that those actions "had devastating consequences for the . . . well-being of Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei." The settlement legislation records that the Crown "unreservedly apologises for not having honoured its obligations to Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei under the Treaty of Waitangi."
The Waitangi Tribunal's WAI 2575 inquiry found explicit Crown failures in Māori health access and called for active protection. History is repeating. Pharmac is complicit.
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