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Pania Newton (born 1990 or 1991) is a New Zealand lawyer and activist for Māori land rights. In 2016, Newton was a co-founder and spokesperson of the group Save Our Unique Landscape (SOUL), which protested against the development of land at Ihumātao in south Auckland from 2016 to 2020.
Jul 29, 2019 · Pania Newton, the young activist who's leading the fight against the Fletcher development at Ihumātao. All of New Zealand now knows about the Ihumātao protest in...
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Pania Newton is a lawyer, scholar and kaitiaki who fought for the preservation of Ihumātao, a sacred land in Auckland. She also advocates for constitutional transformation, Māori food sovereignty and youth empowerment.
Jun 12, 2022 · Pania Newton is a spokesperson for the indigenous-led groups that stopped a housing development on Ihumātao, a confiscated Māori land in Auckland. She quit her law career to fight for the return of ancestral land and was inspired by Whina Cooper and other wāhine Māori pioneers.
Jul 10, 2019 · Pania Newton is fighting for her whenua and her whānau. At 28, the Auckland University law graduate is the youngest of six cousins from Ihumātao village, Auckland, leading an effort to protect...
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Pania Newton is a lawyer and activist for Māori land rights in Aotearoa. She led the campaign to protect the ancestral land at Ihumātao from development and is a TEDx speaker and a board member of several organisations.
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Pania Newton’s path through life has led her to find her purpose, her kaupapa: protecting Ihumātao. Home to the earliest inhabitants of New Zealand, Ihumātao is a landscape of cultural, historical, and environmental significance.
