Tag: David Seymour
Hīkoi day 9: 35,000 join as Treaty Principles Bill protest reaches...
RNZ News
More than 35,000 people today gathered as Aotearoa New Zealand's Hīkoi mō te Tiriti overflowed from Parliament's grounds and onto nearby streets in...
NZ’s Hīkoi challenging controversial draft bill ‘redefines activism’, says Herald
Pacific Media Watch
As thousands take to the streets this week to "honour" the country's 1840 Treaty of Waitangi, the largest daily newspaper New Zealand...
Waitangi Day 2024: NZ government denies it’s ‘delegitimising’ Māori
RNZ News
Aotearoa New Zealand coalition government leaders have rejected allegations they are degrading tino rangatiratanga, saying the proposed Treaty Principles Bill will not "delegitimise"...
Waitangi: Luxon faces questions after day of speeches at Treaty Grounds
RNZ News
The crowd booed a combative Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters and drowned out Associate Treaty Minister David Seymour, while Prime Minister Christopher Luxon...
NZ opposition parties urge PM Luxon to shut down ‘erase treaty’...
RNZ News
New Zealand's opposition parties have seized on a leaked ministerial memo about the coalition government's proposed Treaty Principles bill, saying the prime minister...
Seymour’s sabotage of Māori priority vaccine code ‘unbelievably cruel’
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
A Māori political leader has branded opposition neoliberal ACT leader David Seymour's act this week undermining an indigenous response to New...
Richard McLeod: Make our voices known against the euthanasia bill
OPINION: By Richard McLeod
Two years ago, the Parliamentary Health Select Committee investigating public attitudes to euthanasia and assisted suicide in New Zealand received a...