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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Eva Corlett in Wellington

‘We’re not going away’: the man who led NZ’s biggest Māori rights march vows to fight on

Eru Kapa-Kingi
Eru Kapa-Kingi co-founded Toitū te Tiriti, a group which this year has led a hikoi and protest movement against the controversial treaty principles bill. Photograph: Joe Allison/Getty Images

Māori activist Eru Kapa-Kingi may have just led a historic march on Indigenous rights in New Zealand but he is reluctant to take credit for it.

“We just opened the door, and [thousands] stepped through,” Kapa-Kingi tells the Guardian from his Auckland home, two weeks after a rally he helped mobilise became the largest protest in support of Māori rights and one of the biggest demonstrations in New Zealand’s history.

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