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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 ...
More than 40,000 people have protested outside New Zealand’s parliament against a controversial bill seeking to reinterpret the country's founding document between British colonisers and Māori ...
The protests were in response to the right-wing coalition [13] National-led Government's Treaty Principles Bill. [14] Following the 2023 election and the formation of a National-led coalition government, ACT launched an information campaign early the following year promoting the bill.
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.
On 14 November 2024, Maipi-Clarke protested a bill in New Zealand's parliament that would define the principles of the treaty between Māori and The Crown. She protested by tearing a copy of the Treaty Principles Bill in half during its first reading in Parliament, while leading the haka " Ka Mate ".
An influential New Zealand Maori leader will host on Saturday a meeting to discuss how to respond to government policies seen by many Indigenous groups as undermining their rights and status. The ...
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 ]
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