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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 ...
A post on X claims that the Treaty Principles Bill, which was the subject of the protest, was tabled after the haka dance was started. The post implies that the Maori party had successfully ...
Deputy Prime Minister, Winston Peters, argued that the hīkoi was pointless as, regardless of its impact, the bill was always going to be "dead on arrival", [46] calling the hīkoi a "Maori Party astroturf". [17] [51] His view is that there is no Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi, and in 2004, his bill removing treaty principles was voted ...
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 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.
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New Zealand’s parliament was briefly suspended on Thursday after Maori members staged a haka to disrupt the vote on a contentious bill that would reinterpret a 184-year-old treaty between the ...
Video of the haka received hundreds of millions of views online. [26] On 10 December 2024, Brownlee referred Maipi-Clarke along with Te Pāti Māori co-leaders Rawiri Waititi and Debbie Ngarewa-Packer, and Labour MP Peeni Henare to the Privileges Committee for their involvement in the haka during the first reading of the Treaty Principles Bill ...