Tens of thousands march in New Zealand Maori rights protest
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. Protests have been swelling throughout New Zealand after a minor party in the conservative coalition government drafted a bill to redefine the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi.
Photos: Thousands protest for Maori rights over NZ bill to reinterpret Indigenous treaty
One of the biggest protests in New Zealand history, led by Maori and with the support of diverse ethnicities and cultures, presented a petition signed by more than 200,000 people to parliament to “kill the bill”. Among those protesting was the Maori Queen Nga wai hono i te po.
Children also marched alongside adults bearing distinctive full-face Maori “moko” tattoos and clutching ceremonial wooden ...
More than 35,000 New Zealanders rally at parliament in support of Maori rights - Protesters oppose bill which critics say ...
Police said more than 35,000 attended the rally, which was peaceful. Maori and their supporters are angered by a piece of legislation put forward by the libertarian ACT Party, a junior government ...
In a historic protest, over 42,000 New Zealanders gathered at the parliament to oppose the Treaty Principles Bill, which aims ...
Parliament was briefly suspended on Thursday after Maori members performed a haka — a traditional ceremonial group dance — to ...
When speaker Gerry Brownlee asked Māori lawmaker Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke how her party voted in regards to ... According to NBC, a haka is a Maori dance that was "traditionally a challenge ...
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Tens of thousands protest New Zealand Maori rights billwith rulings by the courts and a separate Maori tribunal expanding Maori rights and privileges over the decades. ACT’s coalition partners, the National Party and the New Zealand First, agreed to ...
Protesters oppose a bill drafted by a minor coalition party that aims to redefine a founding treaty of the country dating back to 1840.
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