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  1. "In February 2015, Ben Mackey, the chair of the Onenui management committee, received a call from Sir Michael Fay, the millionaire merchant banker. Fay, one of New Zealand’s richest men, had bought a farm on the peninsula and wanted to introduce Mackey to some people he knew. Five years earlier, Fay’s Great Mercury Island property had been used by a little-known Kiwi space company called Rocket Lab for a test launch."

    #OllieNeas, 2021

    northandsouth.co.nz/2021/03/14

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    #MichaelFay #RocketLab

  2. "Now in her 80s, Tangiora has faced down soldiers in Chiapas, Mexico, with Indigenous communities defending their land, and has been kicked out of Tahiti for protesting French nuclear-weapons tests. In the lead-up to the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, she comforted children in a Baghdad hospital who suffered from leukaemia brought about by uranium-tipped bombs dropped by the US during the previous Gulf War."

    #OllieNeas, 2021

    northandsouth.co.nz/2021/03/14

    #peace #PeaceMovement