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Integrated Management Plan - Part 1

Integrated Management Plan - Part 2

Integrated Management Plan - Part 3

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Proposed Integrated Management Plan Strategy - Part 1

Proposed Integrated Management Plan Strategy - Part 2

Operational Plan 2019 / 20

Operational Plan 2020 / 21

Download the 2020 / 21 plan

Budget cuts to 2020 / 21 Operational Plan

Operational Plan 2020/21

Draft operational Plan 2022/23

Individual maunga plans 2023 for: Mt Wellington, Wiri, Pigeon Mountain (PDF file compressed). Read here

Maps showing boundaries of Tupuna Maunga lands. Read here

TMA Standing Orders. Read here

Nick Turoa presentation May 2019 - Read here

TMA PLANS FOR INDIVIDUAL MAUNGA

Draft plans for Maungarei Mt Wellington, Ohuirangi Pigeon Mountain and Matukutūruru Wiri Mountain as of . Includes associated iwi histories and information about intended developments over the coming 10 years. Read pages 43 - 84 here

TMA COMPLAINTS

HTM’s formal complaint to TMA June 2020. Read here

TMA’s letter of response to that complaint. Read here

TMA OTHER

The Ombudsman’s powers over Tupuna Maunga Authority (reference: Ombudsman email to Anna): The Authority is bound by Part 7 LGOIMA Act 1987 in relation to how it conducts its public meetings. However, an Ombudsman cannot consider complaints about the Authority's compliance with the requirements in Part 7 of LGOIMA regarding the conducting of meetings. As this is outside an Ombudsman's jurisdiction, a complainant may wish to bring their concerns to the attention of the Chair of the Authority, via the email address I noted previously, or seek legal advice about other options that may be available. It is also open to the complainant to request under LGOIMA any minutes or supporting information from the meeting, including from the public excluded section. Should the complainant be dissatisfied with the decision made by the Authority on such a request, that could be the subject of review by an Ombudsman.

Proposed Integrated Management Plan amendments 2022. Read here

Print friendly version of proposed amendments. Read here

Written submissions:

Ngati Whatua Orakei’s written submission. Read here

Pages 1-100

Pages 101-200

Decision following the hearing of a Plan Modification to the Auckland Unitary Plan under the Resource Management Act 1991. Plan Change 14. Read here

Decision following the hearing of a Plan Modification to the Auckland Unitary Plan under the Resource Management Act 1991. Plan Change 16. Read here

ACRPS Map Series 4a index. Read here

Tūpuna Maunga Authority Policies & RMA Rōpū Process Thresholds. Read here

Tūpuna Maunga Authority Areas. Read here

Refer to maps showing boundaries of Tupuna Maunga lands. Read here

Report to Auckland Council Hearing topic 020. Read here

Volcanic Viewshafts and Height Sensitive Areas. Read here

TMA areas of interest – surrounding lands: I have had a look at the pink areas using this topographic map https://en-nz.topographic-map.com/maps/g1ib/Auckland/ for reference. With quite some liberal interpretation you could say that about 2/3 of the pink areas roughly coincide with the 110m altitude claim, although tending towards 100m in many places. Mt Albert probably fits this claim most accurately. Others, like Mt Smart, are possibly based on a guess as to what the maunga used to look like. Such guesses might be informed by old photographs or paintings from before European quarrying activity but a fair amount of imagination has obviously been used and given that many of the claim boundaries follow roads rather than current topography it does look like the claims are very rough and ready , and probably erring on the side of claiming a larger area than the modern topography would indicate.

Proposed membership of TMA. 27 February 2014. Read here

Governing Body agenda re: appointment of TMA members. 29 May 2014. Read here

Summary of key TMA documents. Date unknown but looks to be early 2014. Read here

Auckland Council Safety Management Framework

Bylaws Review Report

Gate Closure Times Report

Weed Control Programme Report

Auckland Council HSW Policy Statement

Auckland Council co-governance formation

Auckland Council policies, plans and reports

Albert Eden Local Board complaint

Summary of key Tāmaki Collective / Auckland Council documents. 22 August 2013. Read here

Cover memo for PWP meeting. 11 December 2013. Read here

Tupuna Maunga Interim Operational Plan. 13 December 2013. Read here

Proposed Auckland Council membership on the Tūpuna Maunga o Tāmaki Makaurau Authority. 27 February 2014. Read here

Governing Body: Confidential Agenda. 29 May 2014. Read here

Governing Body: Confidential Minutes. 29 May 2014. Read here

How Auckland Council’s TMA members are chosen. Read here and also here.

Auckland Council governance manual - Section 13 (Te Tiriti o Waitangi and Co-governance Arrangements) version 12 January 2021. Read here

Auckland Council’s governance manual re: Tupuna Maunga Authority - Read here

Auckland Council’s governance manual for substantive CCOs 2019 (including TMA) - Read here

How Auckland Council (co)governance decisions are made. Read here

The role of Auckland Council’s Chief Executive. Read here

Phil Goff’s letter to Anna Radford re: Council’s relationship with TMA 10 March 2020. Read here

Open Space Provision Policy July 2016 - Read here

Auckland Council’s Significance and Engagement Policy. Read here

Auckland Council’s Thriving Communities Action Plan (referred to in the Significance and Engagement policy document). Read here

Auckland Council Maori Outcomes Report 2020-21. Read here

Auckland Council Pre-election Report 2022. Read here

NZ Herald article about John Watson’s freedom of speech success where Pippa Coomb’s code of conduct complaint against him was dismissed. Read here

CORRESPONDENCE RELATING TO ANNA’S COMPLAINT

Anna’s formal complaint re: local board 21 March 2022. Read here

Council’s formal response to Anna’s complaint 30 March 2022 (Phil Wilson). Read here

Anna’s reply to the Council’s response 20 April 2022. Read here

Auckland Council’s 27 May response to Anna’s 20 April letter (Louise Mason). Read here

CORRESPONDENCE RELATING TO YO’S COMPLAINT

Yo Heta-Lensen complaint re: local board 28 March 2022. Read here

Council’s response to Na Yo Heta-Lensen complaint 8 April 2022. Read here

Yo’s 9 May reply to that response. Read here.

CORRESPONDENCE RELATING TO REDACTED CONTENT

Read here for Council’s 27 May 2022 response to Anna’s LGOIMA asking about the grounds for redaction in the information supplied relating to her earlier LGOIMA regarding Council communiques about the decision to deny HTM representatives the opportunity to speak about the maunga tree situation. All of the documents supplied are in a Dropbox file (Anna can supply link).

Anna’s 30 May 2022 response in relation to the Council’s 27 May redaction letter, asking about confirmation of legal privilege, etc. Read here

GENERAL

Tupuna maunga planting programme stocktake across Auckland – April 2021. Read here

LGOIMA response re: native planting survival rates for 2019 and 2020. Read here

Maunga aquifer maps and hydrology. See here

OWAIRAKA

Owairaka plantings 2021 LGOIMA. Read here

LGOIMA re: native plantings at Ōwairaka. Read here

MANGERE

Mangere upgrade LGOIMAs 2021. Read here

Media Release - Major track upgrades begin on Māngere Mountain - 10.5.21. Read here

Mangere Mountain ownership. Read email here, and pdf attachment here

MAUNGAKIEKIE ONE TREE HILL

Bruce Haywards report into the geology of the January 2023 slips on Maungakiekie. Read here

OTAHUHU MT RICHMOND

LGOIMA re: 2023 felling expenditure. Read here

LGOIMA response re: 2023 tree removals and 2022-24 plantings and budgets: Read covering email and some costs here. Read tree removal emails here. Read 2023 plantings financial records here. Read 2023 plantings species and quantities list here. Read 2024 species and quantities plantings list here.

Independent Maori Statutory Board - THE WHANAUNGATANGA REPORT for Tāmaki Makaurau 2019. Note comment on page 58: "As tangata whenua, Māori have a unique relationship with the environment in that there is importance placed on the relationship between humans and the natural world.58 This is strongly linked to whakapapa and traditional Māori customs, beliefs and values. Furthermore, Te Ao Māori acknowledges a natural order to the universe where all living things are interrelated and connected in one form or another.59 This unique perspective on the environment helps shape Māori perspectives where traditional values continue to resonate with Māori in contemporary society." Read report here

UNESCO World Heritage “tentative’ list - Auckland Volcanic Field. Read here

Operational Guidelines for the Implementation of the World Heritage Convention - Read here

Memo WHC - Progressing Ngā maunga o Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland Volcanic Cones World Heritage Tentative List Site. 4 July 2019. Read here

DOC letter to TMA re: progressing the UNESCO World Heritage bid. July 2019. Read here

DOC letter to TMA re: World Heritage bid processes. 5 February 2020. Read here

RE: Mauri a Nga Maunga World Heritage Proposal. June 2021. Read here

Event memo - Talking Points V2. 10 December 2021. Read here

Conservation Minister’s talking points for a meeting with the Conservation Authority. December 2021. Read here

Various DOC emails about where the bid is at / progressing it. 2021. Read here

Could Auckland become an indigenously inspired National Park City? - article by Shannon Williams, Tourism Ticker. 23 March 2022. Read here

DOC letter to Anna giving background to UNESCO World Heritage bid for the maunga. March 2022. Read here

Letter from Acting Conservation Minister Alysha Verrall to Edward Ellison from the Conservation Authority. Date not specified. Read here

Response from Ellison - Acting Minister of Conservation to the NZCA. Date not specified. Read here

The Māori Report for Tāmaki Makaurau 2016 (Maori Statutory Board) - Read here

Environment Court decision (Ngati Whatua Orakei vs Auckland Council / Panuku regarding Primacy of Mana Whenua Status. November 2019. Read here

Ngarimu Blair article NZ Herald: Time to end maunga standoff - What Tupuna Maunga Authority can learn from Bastion Point. 4 May 2020. Read here.

High Court transcript - Ngati Whatua Orakei Trust versus Attorney General and Maratuahu Ropu. February 2021. Read here

High Court decision re: Ngati Whatua Orakei Trust versus Attorney General and Maratuahu Ropu 28 April 2022. Read here

Judgment: Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei Trust v Attorney-General - Read Supreme Court media release here

Paul Majurey’s NZ Herald article 3 June 2022 criticising Ngati Whatua Orakei’s court action. Read here. Ngarimu Blair’s response - Read here.

OIA showing the Crown’s costs of defending the NWO action versus Attorney General and Maratuahu Ropu. 13 June 2022. Read here

The Durability of the Treaty Settlement Process: Ngāti Whātua, Tikanga, and the Overlapping Claims Policy by Cate Barnett (winner of the Sir Edward Taihakurei Durie student essay competition 2017). Read more

Tāmaki Collective iwi numbers compared with other Auckland iwi 2023. See here

Proposed Regional Pest Management Plan Cost Benefit Analysis. Japanese cherry is covered on pages 1063 – 1072 - Read plan here

Phase out dates have been extended for some “pest” species, including Japanese cherry (now 1 September 2022) - Read date list here

Emily Parke’s article about the questionable nature of “pest” and “invasive species” eradication - Read article here

LGOIMA re: Japanese Cherry being added to the Auckland Regional pest register. Read email here

LGOIMA with emails around why Japanese Cherry was added to the Auckland Regional pest register. Read emails here

Customer response re: RPMP. Read here

RPMP update. Emails 28 September to 14 October 2020. Read here

Auckland Council Prunus Ban. Emails 17 to 26 June 2020, includes Plant species with restrictions on sale, distribution and exhibition in the Auckland region under the forthcoming Auckland Regional Pest Management Plan 2020-2030. Read here

Nursery trade. Emails 4 August to 13 September 2016. Read here

Nursery industry. Email 30 March 2016. Read here

Auckland RPMP - plants. Emails 4 to 21 December 2020. Read here

Auckland RPMP. Email 17 April 2018. Read here

Restricted plant species. Emails 19 to 20 November 2020. Read here

RPMP 2020-2030. Email 26 November 2020. Read here

Prunus species. Emails 15 to 16 June 2020. Read here

Prunus and Rhaphiolepis. Emails 23 July to 31 October 2014. Read here

Prius species removal. Emails 25 to 29 September 2020. Read here

Meeting at Auckland Botanic Gardens. Emails 11 to 20 August 2020. Read here

Auckland Council RPMP (industry lobbying against banning Prunus...). Emails 24 to 30 July 2020. Read here

Trevors email_Botanical expert opinion re Prunus serrulata. Read here

Auckland Council April 2022 document exempting Prunus serrulata from the regional pest list on the grounds of its low fertility. Read here

Controller and Auditor General office: Public sector governance and accountability - Read here

Controller and Auditor General: Principles for effectively co-governing natural resources - Read here and here

Auditor General Guide to managing conflicts of interest - June 2020. Read here

Te Tiriti o Waitangi and co-governance arrangements. Read here

December 2014 Māori Law Review - Indigenous Peoples’ Good Governance, Human Rights and Self-Determination in the Second Decade of the New Millennium – A Māori Perspective The United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, Thirteenth Session on Good Governance and Human Rights, New York, 12-23 May 2014 Address by Dr Robert Joseph of Te Mata Hautū Taketake – the Māori and Indigenous Governance Centre, University of Waikato, New Zealand - Read here

Co-governance vs co-management - Chris Finlayson article. I worked on co-governance. Here’s what it actually means. NZ Listener / NZ Herald, 17 February 2023. Read here.

Justice Gwyn’s decision for Norman vs Tūpuna Maunga Authority and Auckland Council - Read here

Public law update article re: the judicial review decision. It provides a very neat summary of what the case was about - Read here

Judicial review appeal decision in full. Read here

Summary of judicial review appeal decision. Read here

TMA’s application for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court. Read here

Legal costs. Read here

Auckland Council judicial review costs July 2020. Read her

LGOIMA re: maunga tree judicial review + appeal costs. Read here

Auckland Council judicial review and appeal costs LGOIMA response 3 May 2022. Read here
The LGOIMA advises that the Council’s judicial review legal fees cost $190,555 + GST and the appeal came to $83,514. Total legal fees: $274,070 + GST just for Auckland Council. Court costs have not yet been awarded.

TMA legal costs applying for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court - LGOIMA response 13 May 2022. This LGOIMA advises that it cost $22,244.50 (presumably plus GST) to apply for leave to appeal. It also advises Court of Appeal costs have not yet been awarded. Read here

Supreme Court decision denying TMA leave to appeal - 27 June 2022. Read here

(Amended) Statement of Claim. This document sets out the grounds for the judicial review. Read here.

Affidavit: Andrew Francis Barrell, arborist of Auckland. Read here

Affidavit: Shirley Waru. Read here

Justice Tahana’s judicial decision 31 May 2024. Read here

Legal costs for Judicial Review - Auckland Council ($0) and TMA as of 19 March 2024 ($124,664).

Judicial decision on Shirley Waru’s unsuccessful application for an interim injunction on TMA felling 60 trees on Mt Richmond in July 2023. Read here

TMA’s Leave to Appeal application to the Supreme Court 12 June 2024. Read here.

TMA’s appeal application to the Court of Appeal 21 June 2024. Read here

Māori Law Review article re: First laws and Tikanga Māori - Read here

Te Wahanui article about HTM / Tikanga - Read here

Radio NZ story re: Peter Ellis / Tikanga case - Read here

Matiki Mai report on constitutional reform based on Te Tiriti. Read here

He Puapua report - Read here

The Crown is Enabling Hauraki Maori to Claim Tauranga (Dr Hauata Palmer) vs Hauraki’s Shared Claim to Tauranga Already Accepted (Paul Majurey). NZ Herald, 14 July 2017. Read here.

Where there’s smoke, there’s… ahi kaa? Agreements made by Hauraki & Ranginui. A blog detailing how Paul Majurey and the Hauraki Collective have attempted to muscle in on the Tauranga Moana Treaty settlement. Read more

Controller and Auditor General website: About Tupuna Maunga Authority - Read here

Controller and Auditor General: Good Practice for Managing Public Communications by Local Authorities - Read here

News article re: selling surplus Crown land (When land is declared surplus by the Crown, it cannot decide to use it for another purpose without first fulfilling obligations under the Public Works Act, or under Treaty settlement legislation. In short that means previous landowners or local iwi are first in line to have the opportunity to buy the land. If those that are first in line refuse, then the Crown has far greater options to decide what to do with the land.

In this case the Right of First Refusal (RFR) provisions of the Nga Mana Whenua o Tamaki Makaurau Collective Redress Act 2014 applied in this case. An RFR means the settled group has the right to purchase at market value, ahead of any other potential purchaser, specific surplus Crown-owned land, if the relevant landholding agency decides to sell it within a specified period in the future. Read more

The Dehumanizing Condescension of White Fragility by John McWhorter. A critique of how the popular book aims to combat racism but talks down to Black people. Read more

Waitangi Tribunal Report on the Wai 262 claim: “it’s time to move beyond grievance in Treaty relationships”. Read here

Article detailing the background to the Ihumatao situation. Read here

Public Accountability - Trust and Confidence. Produced by the Auditor General’s office. Read here

Public Accountability - Building Better. Produced by the Auditor General’s office. Read here

Mataharehare - Chief Ombudsman’s report March 2022. Read here

Mataharehare - Chief Ombudsman’s summary March 2022. Read here

Working with Tangata Whenua. Read here

Rik Tau as quoted in: Ngai Tahu Claim Processes Wai 27: How I became the claimant, and how I established the Ngai Tahu “A-Team” that presented the evidence to the Waitangi Tribunal.

"This commenced a continuous round of public meetings for the next three years explaining very clearly with my public utterances that we were not claiming privately-owned land held by individuals, as our claim was not to create further injustices by righting past injustices. Only the Government could right the wrong, as they held or claimed ownership of all the family jewels of New Zealand."

‘Our ultimate duty’ - Defending the integrity of Māori tradition by Nā Dr Michael Stevens, Emeritus Professor Atholl Anderson and Professor Te Maire Tau. As published in Te Karaka, 21 July 2022. See PDF version here.
This article discusses the importance of striking the right balance between Maori traditions and academic rigour.

WWF report on Australian research that shows how street trees lower temperature by 20 degrees. Read here and watch One News report here.

Survey of Brecon St (Queenstown) eucalyptus trees report. Read here

Testing an invasion mechanism for Eucalyptus globulus: Is there evidence of allelopathy (poisoning the soil)? Paper concludes eucalyptus don’t poison the soil. Read here.

Eucalyptus mythbusting - a blog by Australian eucalyptus expert Dean Nicolle. Read here

Articles about the maunga tree issue / written by Honour the Maunga

NZ Herald opinion piece Anna Radford: Playing the racist card to stifle debate (29 April 2020). Read here

Maori TV - Te Ao with Moana documentary about the Owairaka tree situation: Trouble on the Maunga: Iwi and Locals clash on the future of Auckland’s Mountains. Series 3, episode 8. 29 March 2021. View here

Stuff video: The Tūpuna Maunga Authority has been granted permission to fell 278 mature exotic trees on Ōtāhuhu / Mt Richmond where Shirley Waru talks about why she is concerned about TMA’s plans to fell Mt Richmond’s exotic trees. 8 October 2021. Watch here

Anna Radford and Nick Turoa debate the maunga tree issue live on TV3’s AM show. 8 March 2023. Watch here

Articles about relevant issues

Anne Salmond’s Te Tiriti series in Newsroom. Read here

TMA media releases

Protestors Scar Owairaka media release 17 April 2020. Read here

Protestors Repeat Racist Attacks on Tupuna Maunga media release 29 April 2020. Read here

Complaint to Ombudsman re: TMA’s refusal to provide requested information about tree felling communications. Read here
Ombudsman’s 13 June 2022 letter advising complaint has been upheld re: TMA’s refusal to provide tree felling communications between 1 Oct 2021 and 11 Nov 2021. Read here

Ombudsman’s 7 December 2023 decision re: TMA’s refusal to provide tree felling communications 1 April 2021 - 28 June 2022. Read here.

Decisions relating to Albert Eden Local Board’s refusal to hear a HTM delegation’s presentation

• Ombudsman’s decision 24 June 2024 relating to Auckland Council’s information redactions. Read here.

• Emails unredacted as a result of the Ombudsman’s decision. Read here.

Police response to Canal Road protest. Read here

Mangere Mountain ownership. Read email here, and pdf attachment here

Prime Minister meetings with constituents / 1. Read email attachment here

Prime Minister meetings with constituents / 2. Read email attachment here

DOC and the maunga. Read response here and report here

Reserves Status. Read here

Reserves status 2021. Read here

DoC funding TMA 3 million dollars. Read document 1 here. Read document 2 here. Read document 3 here.

LGOIMAS re: tree felling communiques

LGOIMAs re: TMA operational plan and budget consultation responses

Payments made to Atkins, Holm, Majurey / TMA remuneration

TMA and Treescape communication 23 Dec 2020-29 April 2021. Read here

Tree felling communiques for Mt Albert/Roskill/Richmond 1 April - 11 November 2021. Part 1 pages 1-22 (redacted). Read here

Tree felling communiques for Mt Albert/Roskill/Richmond 1 April - 11 November 2021. Part 1 pages 23-44 (redacted). Read here

Tree felling communiques for Mt Albert/Roskill/Richmond 1 April - 11 November 2021. Part 2 (redacted). Read here

Tree felling communiques for Mt Albert/Roskill/Richmond 1 April - 11 November 2021. Part 3 (redacted). Read here

Public feedback on TMA draft operational plan 2020. Read here and here for submissions to TMA.

Public feedback on TMA tree felling in responses to Auckland Council’s 2023 budget. Read here

Public feedback on TMA 2023 draft operational plan and budget. Read here.

Public feedback on individual maunga plans for Wiri, Mt Wellington and Pigeon Mountain. Read here

Independent Maori Statutory Board re: payments made to Atkins, Holm, Majurey 2016-2021. Read here

Auckland Council re: payments made to Atkins, Holm, Majurey 2021. Read here

Note: TMA advised it made no payments to Atkins, Holm, Majurey

Auckland Transport payments made to Atkins, Holm, Majurey 2017-2020. Read here

TMA member remuneration. Read here

LGOIMA re: TMA member remuneration. Read here

LGOIMA response re tree felling costs

Geotechnical report on the slip

Owairaka slip remediation plan and costings

HTM internal email clarifying confusion re: TMA’s Owairaka slip remediation costings

Ombudsman’s decision re: complaint over TMA’s failure to meet LGOIMA requirements

LGOIMA re what Auckland Council does with lumber. Read emails here, here and here

TMA lumber LGOIMA response. Read here

Auckland Council - TMA financial reporting. Read here

TMA guidelines on public presentations. Read here

TMA’s maunga tree felling budgets 3 August 2020. Read here

LGOIMA response re: the TMA’s evidence for its assertions against HTM (May 2020). Read here

LGOIMA responses re: TMA's expenditure on its website. Read here

Interesting/Ironic comments from Paul Majurey.

“The Court of Appeal also found that Treaty of Waitangi principles were not adhered to, as tangata whenua have an existing interest in the marine environment and its resources as kaitiaki or guardians.

However, Paul Majurey, representing Trans-Tasman Resources, told the Supreme Court that the EEZ Act did not have a requirement for the Treaty principles to "be given effect to" and that decision-makers were only required to take them into account.” Read more here

LGOIMA response to Wendy Gray re: herbicide use at Western Springs Forest. Read here

Western Springs Agrichemical Spray Records. June July 2021. Read here

Planting Areas within Western Springs native bush restoration project. Read email here and here, and see map here

Email request for herbicide information. Read here.

• AGPRO Green Glyphosate 510

• Orion Brushoff

• AGPRO Cloralid 300

• Zelam Ignite

• AGPRO Green Glyphosate

• AGPRO Haloxyfop 100

• AGPRO Triclop 600

• Orion Mustang

• AGPRO Organosilicone

• Orion Silmaxx

• Orion Void

• AGPRO Blue Marker Dye

• AGPRO Meturon

What Mt Albert looked like in 1845. Click here

Mt Albert letter 1963. Read here

Mt Albert, then and now. Click here

Overview of Ngati Whatua land sale/ Crown acquisition history, including Mt Albert. Read here

Three Kings history. Read here

Legal personhood for nature has legal ramifications. Read here