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The Treaty of Waitangi became international news late last week after Maori MP Hannaahiti-Mai-P-Clark started a Haka at the end of a vote on the Treaty Principles Bill.

So footage of Maori members of Parliament and people in the public gallery joining this haka as some of the other people in the room either

rolled their eyes or looked uncomfortable, very quickly went viral. This is part of ongoing advocacy

on the part of Maori people to get the terms of this treaty respected, and thousands of people

have also been marching to Wellington in protest of the

treaty principles bill. That march is expected to arrive at the Capitol after we record this

intro, but before this Saturday classic will come out into our podcast feed. Our episode on the

Treaty of Watangi came out on June 4th, 2014, and it talks about some of the context for this bill, which is that the English and Maori versions of this treaty have significant and meaningful differences from one another.

If the treaty principles bill became law, it would move interpretations of the treaty from the courts to parliament, which

critics say would drastically undermine its terms. This bill's progression through parliament is still

ongoing, as Tracy said, as of when we are recording this. Also, I just want to add that in the

original version of this episode, I made a brief reference to Eddie

Izard kind of on the fly. And that was before she began using she-her pronouns. So that

information and the way I reference her is outdated. So enjoy the episode.

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Hello and welcome to the podcast.

I'm Tracy V. Wilson.

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