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New Zealand MP leads haka in parliament to disrupt debate on Māori rights bill

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During the debate, opposition parties and individuals in the public gallery joined in a haka, a traditional Mori dance, led by Te Pti Mori MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke. The Mori rights group has organized a 10-day peaceful protest march against the bill, which has already gained thousands of supporters and made its way from Auckland to Wellington. The march is part of the ongoing Mori rights movement, which has been critical of the bill and its proposed changes to the Treaty of Waitangi.

    1. The purpose of this bill is to break this parliament's 49 years of silence to define the principles in law so it is crystal clear what the treaty means to modern New Zealanders.
    2. What all of these principles have in common is that they afford Māori different rights from other New Zealanders.
    1. You do not go to negate, with a single stroke of a pen, 184 years of debate and discussion, with a bill that I think is very simplistic.
    1. We are a multi-cultural society built on a bicultural base - something that cannot be altered.
New Zealand MP leads haka in parliament to disrupt debate on Māori rights bill