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New Zealand war memorial day petition [8] 12,000 [9] Nationwide Petition to raise awareness of the New Zealand wars by creating a memorial day 2023 5 December 2023 Government policy protest North Island A Te Pāti Māori organised protest regarding the National-led government policy changes. 2024 10-19 November 2024 Hīkoi mō te Tiriti: North ...
The Hīkoi mō te Tiriti march began nine days ago in New Zealand’s far north and crossed the length of the North Island in one of the country’s biggest protests in recent decades.
The "Freedom Camp NZ" then spawned a second Telegram group to facilitate planning for each city and town in New Zealand. To facilitate these solidarity protest, a conversation thread was created for each major New Zealand city and town to coordinate the establishment of "Freedom Camps" at the local level. [184]
Both the New Zealand National Party and New Zealand First said they would not support the bill's passage into law. [20] Joel MacManus of The Spinoff estimated it was the largest protest Wellington had ever seen, and possibly the largest in New Zealand's history. [50] The BBC described it as "one of the biggest in the country's history". [42]
For decades after the Treaty of Waitangi was signed, differences between the English and Māori texts and breaches by New Zealand governments intensified the disenfranchisement of Māori. By the middle of the 20th century, Indigenous language and culture had dwindled, much tribal land was confiscated and Māori were disadvantaged on every metric.
Protesters delayed traffic in New Zealand's largest city Auckland on Thursday, a transport agency said, following calls by activist groups and opposition party Te Pati Maori to take to the streets ...
On 19 November 2024, tens of thousands of New Zealanders, including the Māori queen Ngā-wai-hono-i-te-Pō Paki, joined in nationwide protest, converging in Wellington to protest the bill, marking one of the largest demonstrations in the country's history. [113]
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 ...