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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Anthony France

New Zealand: Over 42,000 protesters descend on Wellington in support of Māori rights

More than 42,000 protesters descended on New Zealand’s parliament to oppose a law that would reinterpret the country’s founding treaty with Māori people.

Marchers crowded the streets of capital Wellington on Tuesday with flags aloft at the end of a nine-day hīkoi, a peaceful rally, that had made its way through the country with the air of a festival.

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