Tens of thousands of people gathered outside New Zealand's Parliament in the nation's capital city of Wellington to protest a bill that aims to redefine the country's founding treaty between the Māori and the British Crown. The protest, over a proposed ...

Tens of thousands of people have marched on the New Zealand parliament in Wellington to protest against a bill that critics say strikes at the core of the country’s founding principles and dilutes the rights of Māori people.

As tens of thousands of marchers thronged the streets in New Zealand’s capital Wellington, the column of people, flags aloft, had the air of a festival or a parade rather than a protest.