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Today in Focus

New Zealand: the fight to protect Māori rights

Today in Focus

The Guardian

News, Daily News

4.65.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In what could be the biggest protest march in New Zealand’s history, 42,000 people took to the roads over fears Māori rights are being dismantled. Eva Corlett reports. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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0:00.0

This is The Guardian.

0:09.1

Today, the New Zealand government's historic rollback of Maori rights

0:13.5

and the growing fightback against it.

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Thank you. design. This message was paid for by Adobe. In the Maori language, it's called a Hikoi, a community march. New Zealand had one

1:08.8

recently that went for nine days, starting at dawn at the tip of

1:12.7

the North Island, working its way down the country.

1:19.8

They came out on the streets, you know. When they went through small communities like,

1:24.6

Oh, Harkuni, there's only a thousand people in that community.

1:31.9

700 people in that community marched to honour the treaty.

1:36.6

When they went to a little community in Taararo, I think there's 300, they all came out on their horses with their animals, their cows and their calves to actually honour the treaty.

1:41.7

They're small communities.

1:42.9

Then they went to big places like

1:45.2

Rotorua and we'd never seen this kind of march before. There was 15,000 people came out on

1:51.0

that day, non-Mari, Māori, Pacific Island, Indian to support our founding document.

1:59.0

Collectively, it might have been the biggest demonstration in New Zealand's history,

2:03.7

in protest at one of the biggest assaults on Maori rights since colonisation.

2:09.7

Annette Sykes, a Maori lawyer and activist, was one of the organisers.

2:14.5

There was, I think, between 70,000 to 80,000 that marched when we got to the capital.

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