Bastion Point
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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 b
Takaparawhau / Bastion Point seen from the fishing pier jutting out into the Waitematā Harbour.
The entrance to Ōrākei Marae, the cultural hub for Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei.
The marae on Takaparawhau in the 1890s.
Michael Joseph Savage Memorial and tomb.
Michael Joseph Savage
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Michael Joseph Savage was an Australian-born New Zealand politician who served as the 23rd prime minister of New Zealand, heading the First Labour Government from 1935 until his death in 1940.
Bastion Point
…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…
Savage in 1935
Savage (right, front row) at the Socialist Party's 1911 conference
Savage and his ministers in the first Labour Cabinet, photographed in the Old Parliament Building, c. 1935
Savage demonstrates his common touch, attending a rugby league match between New Zealand and Australia at Auckland, 1937