The Treaty Principles Bill was introduced by David Seymour, leader of the right-wing ACT New Zealand Party ... aisle and thousands of Indigenous and non-Indigenous New Zealanders, with critics saying it could undermine the rights of the Māori.

As tens of thousands of marchers crowded the streets in New Zealand’s capital Wellington on Tuesday, the throng of people, flags aloft, had the air of a festival or a parade rather than a protest. They arrived to oppose a law that would reshape the county’s founding treaty between Indigenous Māori and the British

Police estimated that over 15,000 people were marching towards parliament, with 2,000 already gathered at the parliamentary precinct.