Joe Hawke is being remembered as a great Maori leader
Joe Hawke is being remembered as a great Maori leader
23 May 2022
He died yesterday, aged 82.
Hawke led the Bastion Point occupation in the 1970s and became a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to Maori and the community in 2008.
He was also a Labour MP between 1996 and 2002.
Maori Development Minister Willie Jackson says he was a treasure not just for Maori - but the whole country.
He says Hawke led one of the most significant protests in the country's history and was something else in terms of fighting for Maori rights.
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