Treaty Principles Bill passes first reading | 1News on TVNZ+

The Treaty Principles Bill has passed its first reading, with proponent ACT leader David Seymour facing heated opposition as he argued "all New Zealanders deserve tino rangatiratanga".

MPs who opposed the Bill described it as being "divisive", a "wrecking ball" to Crown-Māori relations, and "amounting to a dictatorship of the majority".

Labour MP Willie Jackson was booted from the debating chamber after he called Seymour a "liar", and later a haka led by Te Pāti Māori saw proceedings suspended before the vote could be finished.

In tabling his bill, Seymour said it was time to "break this Parliament's 49 years of silence" on Treaty principles.

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