{"id":102671,"date":"2024-11-19T06:03:02","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T06:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/11\/19\/thousands-flock-to-nz-capital-in-huge-maori-protests\/"},"modified":"2024-11-19T06:03:02","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T06:03:02","slug":"thousands-flock-to-nz-capital-in-huge-maori-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/thousands-flock-to-nz-capital-in-huge-maori-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands flock to NZ capital in huge M\u0101ori protests"},"content":{"rendered":"
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More than 35,000 people have protested outside New Zealand\u2019s parliament against a controversial bill seeking to reinterpret the country\u2019s founding document between British colonisers and M\u0101ori people.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The demonstration marked the end of a nine-day h\u012bkoi, or peaceful protest, that had made its way through the country.<\/p>\n

The h\u012bkoi swelled dramatically on Tuesday as participants, many draped in colours of the M\u0101ori flag, marched through the capital Wellington.<\/p>\n

It brought together activists and supporters who opposed the bill, which was introduced by a junior member of the governing coalition.<\/p>\n

The bill, introduced by the Act political party, argues that New Zealand should reinterpret and legally define the principles of the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi, a document that is seen as fundamental to the country\u2019s race relations.<\/p>\n

The party\u2019s leader, David Seymour, says that over time the treaty\u2019s core values have led to racial divisions, not unity.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy Treaty Principles Bill says that I, like everybody else, whether their ancestors came here a thousand years ago, like some of mine did, or just got off the plane at Auckland International Airport this morning to begin their journey as New Zealanders, have the same basic rights and dignity,\u201d says Seymour, who has M\u0101ori ancestry.<\/p>\n

\u201cYour starting point is to take a human being and ask, what\u2019s your ancestry? What kind of human are you? That used to be called prejudice. It used to be called bigotry. It used to be called profiling and discrimination. Now you\u2019re trying to make a virtue of it. I think that\u2019s a big mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n

The proposed bill was met with fierce opposition, leading to one of the biggest protest marches New Zealand has ever seen.<\/p>\n

Wellington\u2019s rail network saw what might have been its busiest morning ever as the h\u012bkoi poured through the capital, according to the city\u2019s transport chair Thomas Nash.<\/p>\n

The M\u0101ori Queen Ng\u0101 Wai hono i te p\u014d led the delegation into the grounds surrounding the Beehive, New Zealand\u2019s parliament house, as thousands followed behind.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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More than 35,000 people have protested outside New Zealand\u2019s parliament against a controversial bill seeking to reinterpret the country\u2019s founding document between British colonisers and M\u0101ori people. The demonstration marked the end of a nine-day h\u012bkoi, or peaceful protest, that had made its way through the country. The h\u012bkoi swelled dramatically on Tuesday as participants, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}