Wellington, New Zealand—Booming Indigenous Maori 'haka' chants rang out across New Zealand's capital on Tuesday, as tens of thousands rallied against
Te Pati Maori MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke speaks as members of the Maori community and their supporters take part in a protest outside the parliament in Wellington on November 19, 2024. Booming Indigenous Maori"haka" chants rang out across New Zealand's capital on November 19, as thousands rallied against a conservative proposal accused of stoking racial divisions.
Children marched alongside adults bearing distinctive full-face Maori “moko” tattoos and clutching ceremonial wooden weapons. Although the bill has almost no chance of passing, its mere introduction has triggered one of New Zealand’s largest protests in decades. Crowds gathered on the lawns outside New Zealand’s beehive-shaped parliament building, playing reggae music and giving speeches that urged the government to come out and face them.
But former conservative prime minister Jenny Shipley said just putting it forward threatened to “divide New Zealand in a way that I haven’t lived through in my adult life.”Proceedings were derailed when 22-year-old Maori Party MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke took to her feet in the chamber, ripped the bill in half, and launched into a haka.
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