Tag: Te Hīkoi mō te Tiriti
Cynical politics reported on world stage damage NZ’s reputation
COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis
"Flashpoint" in a foreign news story usually brings to mind the Middle East or the border between North and South Korea....
Protest photographer John Miller records Hīkoi mō te Tiriti with his...
RNZ News
For almost six decades photographer John Miller (Ngāpuhi) has been a protest photographer in Aotearoa New Zealand.
From his first photographs of an anti-Vietnam...
NZ’s leading newspaper defends young MP’s Parliament ‘shining light’ haka
Pacific Media Watch
New Zealand’s leading daily newspaper has joined the debate about the haka that stunned Parliament and the nation last week, defending the...
Why NZ is protesting over colonial-era treaty bill – a global...
An overview for our international readers of Asia Pacific Report.
BACKGROUNDER: By Sarah Shamim
A fight for Māori indigenous rights drew more than 50,000 protesters to...
Bill would ‘render the treaty worthless’ – world reacts to national...
RNZ News
International media coverage of Aotearoa New Zealand's national Hīkoi to Parliament has largely focused on the historic size of the turnout in Wellington...
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...
Hīkoi day 8: Te Pāti Māori co-leader speaks of ‘sense of...
RNZ News
ACT leader David Seymour has spoken out on Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke's haka in Parliament as a Hīkoi against his controversial Treaty Principles Bill converges...
Hīkoi day 7: Significant disruption expected when thousands converge on capital
RNZ News
New Zealand's hīkoi against the Treaty Principles Bill could be one of the largest rallies that the capital has seen for years, Wellington...
NZ’s Treaty Principles Bill ‘inviting civil war’, says former PM Shipley
RNZ News
A former New Zealand prime minister, Dame Jenny Shipley, has warned the ACT Party is "inviting civil war" with its attempt to define...
NZ’s Treaty Principles Bill haka highlights tensions between Māori tikanga and...
By Lillian Hanly, RNZ News political reporter, Craig McCulloch, RNZ deputy political editor, and Te Manu Korihi
Te Pāti Māori's extraordinary display of protest --...
Hīkoi day five: 10,000 join as Treaty bill protest halts traffic...
RNZ News
An estimated 10,000 people have marched through Rotorua today as part of Hīkoi mō te Tiriti protesting against the controversial Treaty Principles Bill.
Due...
NZ’s Treaty Principles Bill is already straining social cohesion – a...
ANALYSIS: By Alexander Gillespie, University of Waikato and Claire Breen, University of Waikato
With the protest hīkoi from the Far North moving through Rotorua on...
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...
Hīkoi day four: Setting off from Huntly on way to Wellington...
RNZ News
Thousands of people are continuing their North Island hīkoi as the legislation they are protesting against, the Treaty Principles Bill, gets its first...
Senior NZ lawyers call for Treaty Principles Bill to be abandoned
By Lillian Hanly, RNZ political reporter
Members of the King's Counsel, some of New Zealand's most senior legal minds, say the controversial Treaty Principles Bill...
Hīkoi day three: Thousands of protesters walk across Auckland Harbour Bridge
RNZ News
Thousands of supporters of Aotearoa New Zealand's hīkoi mō te Tiriti -- a march traversing the length of Aotearoa in protest against the...
Hīkoi mō te Tiriti sets off from Whangārei on day two
RNZ News
Emotions are running high as the Hīkoi mō te Tiriti has been welcomed to Laurie Hill Park in Whangārei by mana whenua.
Thousands have...
Hīkoi mō te Tiriti day one: ‘Lets make this hīkoi build...
RNZ News
From the misty peaks of Cape Reinga to the rain-soaked streets of Kawakawa, Aotearoa New Zealand's national hīkoi mō Te Tiriti rolled through...