In 1976, the Government at that point in time announced that it would be selling off Bastion Point in Auckland to the highest-bidding developer. Two days before the development was due to start, we saw Ōrākei Māori Committee Action Committee, led by Joe Hawke, begin an occupation. During the cold and the wet of winter, the crowds dwindled to a mere handful of people at that occupation, but whenever there was a threat by the Prime Minister at the time—Muldoon—we saw those crowds swell. We saw people turn up and turn out, and after 506 days, the Government of the time issued hundreds of police officers and the New Zealand Army to take away those occupiers and those protesters, and it arrested 222 people. But, 10 years thereafter, that land was returned through settlements to Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei, who, in turn, turned around and provided access to the people of Tāmaki Makaurau. 