Thousands of people are gathering to take the final steps in a march on New Zealand’s parliament to demonstrate against a controversial bill seeking to overhaul the country's founding document between British colonisers and Māori people.

Booming indigenous Maori “haka” chants rang out across New Zealand’s capital on Tuesday, as tens of thousands rallied against a conservative push to redefine the nation’s founding treaty. More than 35,000 demonstrators poured into the harbourside ...