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New Zealand MPs protest Indigenous treaty bill with haka

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New Zealand MPs disrupt parliament with haka to protest Indigenous treaty bill

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 British and Indigenous Maori.

New Zealand Maori begin march on capital to protest Indigenous treaty bill

Hundreds of people on Monday set out on a nine-day march to New Zealand's capital of Wellington in protest over legislation that would reinterpret a treaty at the heart of race relations in the Pacific country.

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Protests erupt in New Zealand over Treaty Principles Bill

Nearly ten thousand people took to the streets in New Zealand to protest the introduction of the controversial Treaty Principles Bill in Parliament. Critics said the bill, if passed, could reverse the rights and other protection mechanisms for the Indigenous Māori people.

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The Treaty Principles Bill is already straining social cohesion – a referendum could be worse

The Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill will likely die after it goes to select committee – or will it? A possible ...

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"Do not negate 184 years of debate": Bill rolling back Māori rights in New Zealand faces backlash

Protests erupted inside and outside of New Zealand’s parliament this week as the country’s far-right ACT New Zealand Party ...

What Is Treaty of Waitangi? 184-Year-Old Document Granting Land Rights To Maori Tribes

The Treaty of Waitangi, considered New Zealand’s founding document, takes its name from the Bay of Islands location.

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