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This is the moment New Zealand Maori MPs disrupt parliament with a haka to protest against a treaty bill. New Zealand’s parliament was briefly suspended on Thursday (14 November), after Maori ...
Hīkoi mō te Tiriti (Māori for "March for the Treaty") were hīkoi protests in New Zealand against the Treaty Principles Bill that occurred from 10 November to 19 November 2024. The bill would redefine the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi.
The bill sparked huge protests. Tens of thousands of New Zealanders gathered outside the parliament in one of the country’s largest demonstrations to oppose the Treaty Principles Bill on 19 ...
Tens of thousands of people have marched on the New Zealand parliament in Wellington to protest against a bill ... Treaty Principles Bill that seeks to reinterpret the 184-year-old treaty between ...
Luxon told Seymour his party would vote for the treaty bill once, while promising publicly that it would go no further. The treaty’s principles had been negotiated and debated for 184 years, Luxon told reporters Thursday, and it was “simplistic” for Seymour to suggest that they could be resolved “through the stroke of a pen”.
Act, the political party that introduced the bill, argues there is a need to legally define the principles of the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi, which has been fundamental to race relations in New Zealand.
The Treaty Principles Bill, or the Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill, is a government bill [1] promoted by David Seymour of the ACT New Zealand party. It aims to redefine the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi and put them to a nationwide referendum for confirmation. [ 2 ]
The Māori protest movement is a broad indigenous rights movement in New Zealand ().While there was a range of conflicts between Māori and European immigrants prior to the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840, the signing provided one reason for protesting.