Angeline Ngahina Greensill (born 1948) is a New Zealand Māori political rights campaigner, academic and leader.
30-457: Greensill is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Angeline Greensill (born 1948), New Zealand academic and Māori activist Bruce Greensill (1942–2007), Australian rugby union player Lex Greensill (born 1977), Australian businessman and banker See also [ edit ] Greensill Capital Greensill scandal [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
60-671: A Trained Teachers Certificate, LLB (Bachelor of Laws), Bachelor of Social Sciences with 1st class Honours and completed a Masters of Social Science in 2010, with a thesis on the Resource Management Act , supervised by Robyn Longhurst . Greensill's first job was as a primary school teacher both in New Zealand and in Brisbane . Between 1984–1996 while raising her young family, she worked for her hapū as co-ordinator of employment and skills training and conservation programmes for youth in
90-494: A reflecting pool which was built in two years by Fletcher Construction for £34,533, with the cost raised by subscription. The monument was dedicated before a crowd of ten thousand on 28 March 1943, with Savage's remains reinterred in a deep tunnel below the monument. The tomb is inscribed: Michael Joseph Savage, 1872–1940, He loved his fellow men. In 1976, the Crown announced that it planned to develop Bastion Point by selling it to
120-665: Is the recognition in law of the 1835 Declaration of Independence . Greensill unsuccessfully stood for the Māori Party in the Maori electorates of Tainui and Hauraki-Waikato in the New Zealand general elections of 2005 and 2008 respectively. In 2011, however, she joined the breakaway Mana Party , saying that the Māori Party was no longer listening to the people. She contested the Hauraki-Waikato electorate again for her new party in
150-483: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Angeline Greensill Greensill is of Tainui , Ngāti Porou , and Ngāti Paniora descent, born in the late 1940s in Hamilton and raised at Raglan , on the turangawaewae of Tainui o Tainui ki Whaingaroa. She was educated at Raglan Primary, Raglan District High School, Hamilton Technical College, Hamilton Teachers College and at Waikato University. She holds
180-589: Is managed by the Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei Reserves Board. The public land containing the Michael Joseph Savage Memorial and Fort Britomart tunnels is not owned by the hapū, who refer to it as Kohimarama, while Auckland Council now call it Takaparawhau. The land was occupied by Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei, and before the colonisation of New Zealand it was part of important lands for the hapū , overlooking rich fishing and farming areas. The surrounding land
210-666: The 1999 election in the Port Waikato electorate for the Mana Māori Movement but was unsuccessful. Greensill was one of the final co-leaders of the Mana Māori Movement, which she called into recess in 2005 so that the combined efforts of that party could be utilised in the founding and promoting of the Māori Party . In the past Greensill supported Māori political party Mana Motuhake . One policy Greensill has advocated for
240-480: The 2011 and 2014 elections. Bastion Point Takaparawhau / Bastion Point is a coastal piece of land in Ōrākei , Auckland , New Zealand, overlooking the Waitematā Harbour . The area is significant in New Zealand history as the site of protests in the late 1970s by Māori against forced land alienation by Pākehā (European settlers). Takaparawhau is now the site of the private Ōrākei Marae ,
270-600: The Church . Soon after signing Te Tiriti , Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei, the primary hapū and landowner in Tāmaki Makaurau, made a tuku (strategic gift) of 3,500 acres (1,400 hectares) of land on the Waitematā Harbour to William Hobson , the new Governor of New Zealand, for the new capital . By 1859, Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei, who had given two further land tuku of 13,200 acres (5,342 hectares) to the Crown, had lost most of their remaining land through speculators. The 700-acre Ōrākei block
300-415: The surname Greensill . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Greensill&oldid=1020135661 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
330-468: The Coronation and Imperial Conference in 1937. The Labour state housing team John A. Lee and Frank Langstone decided that the 120 Māori living at Ōrākei were illegal squatters and had to be removed. The incensed Ōrākei Māori met Savage on his return from overseas, and he immediately reversed the decision, avoiding what could have been a political crisis. In November 1936, Lee had assured Walter Nash that
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#1732848966942360-829: The Māori would be removed without much difficulty; but they refused, and were supported by the Clergy Association, the Protestant churches, the Anglican Bishop, the Friends of Orakei and the New Zealand Observer. Robin Hyde wrote No More Dancing at Orakei . Lee obtained most of his land, but Langstone's (and the Cabinet's) decision; seen as obtaining Māori land as a park 'for white children'
390-546: The Orakei Māori Action Committee organised and maintained an occupation of the remaining Crown land. The occupation began on 5 January 1977, two days before construction of the housing was to start, to prevent its confiscation by the Muldoon Government . The occupiers constructed a marae and housing, and grew crops. A fire in a tent on 26 September 1977 caused the death of a young girl named Joanna Hawke,
420-565: The Raglan Catchment area. After completing a law degree she was employed by University of Waikato in 1999 to teach in the Department of Geography, Tourism and Environmental Planning specialising in treaties, Māori geography and resource management. As an advocate for the protection of the environment and for Maori land rights of West Coast whānau and hapu in the Whaingaroa area since
450-505: The Tamaki Yacht Club. Bastion Point became the common Pākehā name for the site encompassing both points. The nearby beach named Waiparera by Māori was changed to Kohimarama Beach by Pākehā. Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei , who own most of the land again, call it Takaparawhau, which, along with Ōkahu Bay, form Whenua Rangatira, which is vested in Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei for the common use and benefit of Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei and citizens of Auckland, and
480-840: The Validation Of Invalid Land Sales Act 1894. In 1885, the New Zealand Government built a military outpost at Bastion Point, because of its commanding strategic position overlooking the Waitematā Harbour, known as Fort Bastion. The outpost was not built on Takaparawha Point, which had earlier been taken by the Government for the same purpose. In 1886, the Crown used the Public Works Act 1882 (46 Vict No 37) to take ownership of 13 acres (5.3 ha) of Bastion Point for this purpose of defence. From 1913 and 1928,
510-563: The end the state prevailed". In 1936, Ōrākei was proposed as a site for state housing by the First Labour Government , and in August a Māori delegation asked Prime Minister Savage that at least the marae on the flat foreshore where he had been ceremonially welcomed after his election should be retained by the tribe. Savage was 'somewhat fogged' by the situation and asked for reports, which were not completed when he sailed to Britain for
540-698: The government bought most of the land that had been previously deemed inalienable. As Ranganui Walker states, this is by no means a simple case of willful dispossession: "In a long running battle to resist the state and save the land, there were eight actions in the Maori Land Court, four in the Supreme Court, two in the Court of Appeal, two in the Compensation Court, six appearances before Commissions or Committees of Inquiry, and fifteen Parliamentary Petitions. In
570-469: The highest bidder for high-income housing. 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. The government claimed that the land had been sold to the Crown, however Hawke claimed that, "This land was not sold – it was confiscated under the Public Works Lands Act". From 1977 to 1978,
600-542: The land occupation at the Raglan Golf Course (see Māori protest movement ), which played a prominent role in helping recognise issues around Māori land rights in New Zealand. Greensill was with her mother, Eva Rickard , when she was arrested on charges of trespassing. Due to prolonged legal efforts the land was later returned to the local tribe. Greensill was also involved in land occupations at Bastion Point , Awhitu, and others elsewhere. Ranked third, she stood in
630-462: The mid-70s, Greensill's legal efforts have been crucial in helping to block human-cow transgenic field trials being conducted by AgResearch Ltd , and helped to educate Māori communities on the implications of genetic engineering . Due to her expertise in this field she was interviewed in the documentary film The Leech and the Earthworm by Max Pugh and Marc Silver. Greensill assisted in organising
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#1732848966942660-489: The niece of protest leader Joe Hawke. The occupation lasted for 506 days; it ended on 25 May 1978, when 800 police and personnel of the New Zealand Army forcibly removed the occupiers and destroyed the temporary buildings—including vegetable gardens and the marae. Two hundred and twenty two protesters were arrested. The occupation and the use of force to end it played a part in highlighting injustices against Māori, and
690-486: The occupation became a major landmark in the history of Māori protest . In 1988, the New Zealand Labour Government returned Takaparawhau / Bastion Point and Ōrākei Marae to Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei, with compensation, as part of a Treaty of Waitangi settlement process. The 1991 Ōrākei Act was passed to recognise the rights of Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei under the treaty. Joe Hawke died on 22 May 2022, aged 82 and
720-410: The public Michael Joseph Savage Memorial, and privately-owned reserve land that is accessible to the public. Māori originally named the eastern point of the area Kohimarama, meaning to collect the remnants / wood chips, and the western point was named Takaparawhau. Felton Mathew changed the name of Kohimarama to South Head. Just off that point was Bastion Rock, which was levelled and is now the site of
750-427: The same time the village at Ōkahu Bay was not connected to the city's fresh water supply. The first Labour Prime Minister of New Zealand , Michael Joseph Savage died in office in 1940, and is buried in an Art Deco mausoleum at Takaparawhau / Bastion Point designed by Tibor Donner and Anthony Bartlett with a sculpture by R. O. Gross, built above the disused Fort Britomart. It has large columns, sunken gardens and
780-427: The yacht club building. In 1951, Māori living in Ōrākei were evicted and the houses were knocked down. A justification for this eviction was health and sanitation issues, for which the government was ultimately responsible. These issues were created by the city council earlier when a sewer line and road were built along the foreshore which blocked the flow of storm water, creating the quagmire of sanitation problems. At
810-485: Was all that remained. Within a century, this too was compulsorily acquired by the Crown (apart from a cemetery). Apihai Te Kawau spoke publicly against land sales and in order to safeguard a small amount of land in Ōrākei for future generations, and Te Kawau obtained a Crown Grant in 1869. In 1873, the Native Land Court stated that "the land shall be inalienable". A reversal of this government position came with
840-579: Was purchased and confiscated by the New Zealand Government for public works and development over a period stretching from the 1840s into the 1950s. On 20 March 1840, in the Manukau Harbour area where Ngāti Whātua farmed, paramount chief Apihai Te Kawau signed Te Tiriti o Waitangi . Ngāti Whātua sought British protection from Ngāpuhi as well as a reciprocal relationship with the Crown and
870-526: Was reversed. Another motive for their proposal was to weaken Bill Endean 's grip on Parnell , the only non-Labour seat in Auckland. Māori from the pā met Savages' body when it arrived back in Auckland in 1940. In 1941, the Crown no longer needed Bastion Point for defence, it did not return the land to its traditional Māori owners but instead gifted it to the Auckland City Council for a reserve. (This
900-425: Was the last 60 acres (24.3 ha) of uncommitted land at Ōrākei that Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei still hoped to get back.) During World War II, three searchlights were housed in emplacements built at the foot of Bastion Point, and still exist today. Guns, searchlights, and an anti-submarine boom stretched to Torpedo Bay near North Head, were installed at the front of the Tamaki Yacht Club, and were later incorporated into
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