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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The chiefs justified this by the treaty's guarantee of rangatiratanga (chieftainship), [3] but in the early 1860s the government used the Māori King Movement as an excuse to invade lands in the eastern parts of the North Island, culminating in the Crown's confiscation of large parts of the Waikato and Taranaki from Māori [4] – the ...
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 ...
The Waitangi Sheet of the Treaty of Waitangi. The Treaty of Waitangi was first signed on 6 February 1840 by representatives of the British Crown and Māori chiefs from the North Island of New Zealand, with a further 500 signatures added later that year, including some from the South Island.
The Treaty of Waitangi, which is the focus of the proposed bill, dates back to 1840 and is considered New Zealand's founding document. The agreement was signed by Māori chiefs and the British ...
We were obliged, due to Māori opposition, to drop the Treaty from the Bill of Rights. That was a great pity and it is a step that I advocate be taken still in the context of having a superior law Bill of Rights. [176] During the 1990s there was broad agreement between major political parties that the settlement of historical claims was ...