A report on Bastion Point, Joe Hawke and Ngāti Whātua

Bastion Point seen from the fishing pier jutting out into the Waitematā Harbour.
Hawke in 2008
Lower Northland Peninsula
A marae on Takaparawhau in the 1890s.
Lower Northland Peninsula
Bastion Point activist campaign at Nambassa alternatives festival 1981.
Grave and memorial near Bastion Point.
The entrance to Ōrākei Marae, the cultural hub for Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei.

The Ngāti Whātua iwi claimed the land had been taken unjustly from them by the crown and the subdivision plan (for a private housing development) would have left Ngāti Whātua with less than a hectare of remaining land.

- Joe Hawke

Hawke led the occupation of Takaparawhau / Bastion Point in 1977, defying then prime minister Robert Muldoon to protest the development.

- Joe Hawke

On 20 March 1840 in the Manukau Harbour area where Ngāti Whātua farmed, paramount chief Apihai Te Kawau signed Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

- Bastion Point

Ngāti Whātua came to national prominence in the 1970s in a dispute over vacant land at Bastion Point, a little way east of the Auckland city centre, adjoining the suburb of Ōrākei.

- Ngāti Whātua

Joe Hawke, politician and businessman

- Ngāti Whātua

Joe Hawke, members of his hapū Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei, and other activists, formed the Orakei Māori Action Committee, taking direct action to stop the subdivision.

- Bastion Point
Bastion Point seen from the fishing pier jutting out into the Waitematā Harbour.

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