Thousands of people have been demonstrating against a proposed law that seeks to reinterpret the country’s founding document signed between British colonisers and Māori chiefs 180 years ago. On Tuesday,

A nine-day-long hikoi, or peaceful march – a tradition of the Maori – was undertaken in protest against a bill that seeks to reinterpret the country’s 184-year-old founding Treaty of Waitangi, which was signed between British colonisers and the Indigenous Maori people.