Pania Newton

Pania Newton
Newton at the Fletcher building protest in 2019
Born	1990 or 1991 (age 32–33)[1]
Education	University of Auckland (LLB/BHlth, 2015)
Occupations	Lawyer activist
Known for	Protest of land development at Ihumātao
Children	1

Pania Newton (born 1990 or 1991) is a New Zealand lawyer and activist for Māori land rights. In 2016, Newton was a co-founder and spokesperson of the group Save Our Unique Landscape (SOUL), which protested against the development of land at Ihumātao in south Auckland from 2016 to 2020. As a result of the group's protest action, the New Zealand government purchased the land from the developer in 2020, although as of 2022^[update] its future remains unresolved.