Waitangi Day: Big turnout at Dunedin protest

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in Dunedin to march from Queens Gardens to the Octagon this morning in protest of presidency plans that impression Māori and the Treaty of Waitangi.

A variety of individuals joined to help the town’s newest Toitū te Tiriti protest at present. 

The protest consisted of a march via city, ending on the Octagon, the place there can be kōrero (speeches), waiata (songs) and different formalities.

The marchers listened to speeches within the Octagon the place the Waitangi Day Whānau Pageant is going down. 

Waitangi Day, New Zealand’s nationwide day and a public vacation, is being marked all through the nation at present.

Māori are upset at a plan by the centre-right coalition made up of Nationwide, New Zealand First and Act, to undo insurance policies of earlier governments – significantly these selling the official use of the Māori language and looking for to boost Indigenous residing requirements and rights.

The federal government has additionally stated it’ll introduce, however shouldn’t be dedicated to passing, a invoice that will reinterpret the Treaty of Waitangi, spearheaded by the Act celebration.