In this episode I discuss the now viral protest in the New Zealand Parliament by indigenous Māori MP’s. Led by Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, members primarily belonging to the Te Pati Māori party used the Haka, a traditional dance, to express their outrage at the far-right ACT New Zealand’s ‘Treaty Principles Bill’, which seems to extinguish indigenous rights in the country by redefining the country’s foundational Treaty of Waitangi as actually affording indigenous rights to all citizens of New Zealand/Aotearoa, in contradiction to how the treaty has been interpreted for the entirety of the country’s history.

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