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RNZ News
29-05-2025
- Entertainment
- RNZ News
Eden Park hosts the first-ever Waiata Singalong
music te ao Maori about 1 hour ago Tutira Mai Nga Iwi will be sung by thousands at Auckland's Eden Park this weekend. Rugby fans and whanau heading to Saturday's Blues-Waratahs match will be able to take part in the first-ever Waiata Singalong Series. The person behind it is the legendary Dame Hinewehi Mohi who told Perlina all about it.
Sassy Mama
21-04-2025
- Business
- Sassy Mama
You Can Now Easily Get High-Quality & Nutritious Ingredients From New Zealand Right Here In SG
Get ready to 'Discover A Taste of New Zealand' because Cold Storage and CS Fresh are bringing the best of Kiwi goodness to Singapore with premium food, live performances and more. As parents, making sure our kids are fed is one thing, but making sure they eat a nutritious, well-balanced meal is another. If you're searching for something you can feel good about feeding your family, you're in luck, because the New Zealand Trade and Enterprise is partnering up with Cold Storage for a campaign where you can experience premium New Zealand products right here in Singapore! New Zealand Premium Food and Beverage So, what makes New Zealand produce so special? New Zealand is known for its ethical farming practices that prioritise quality, safety, and sustainability, making sure that every bite is as good as nature intended. These ethical farming practices go hand in hand with New Zealand's natural advantages such as clean air, lush pastures, fertile soils, and crystal-clear waters – all of which create the perfect conditions for nutritious, delicious food. It's no wonder New Zealand produce consistently wins international awards! From free-range poultry, grass-fed beef and lamb to GMO-free fruits, natural manuka honey, premium dairy and indulgent snacks, New Zealand offers food that's healthier, fresher, and ethically sourced, and are guaranteed to impress the pickiest little eaters in the family! 'Discover A Taste of New Zealand' in Singapore If you're keen to stock up your pantry with premium New Zealand products, head down to Cold Storage and CS Fresh stores islandwide to experience the best of New Zealand firsthand and learn more about where your food comes from! The three-week campaign (17 April to 7 May 2025) will run across 35 outlets, featuring well-loved New Zealand brands such as Anchor, Cookie Time, Meadow Fresh, Mother Earth, Otis, Rockit Apple, Tegel, Whittaker's, Zespri, Zeagold and more. That's not all, you can also shop from other well-loved New Zealand brands such as Comvita, Nice & Natural, Fourflax and K9 Natural, at Comvita x HoneyWorld stores, Lazada, Ace Asia Pet Care, and Kohepets respectively. The highly anticipated campaign kicked off with a launch event at Cold Storage Great World City last week, featuring special live cultural performances including a Kapa Haka and Waiata showcase by students from the Australian International School. If you missed the performances, not to worry—mark your calendars and head down to Cold Storage and CS Fresh to discover what makes New Zealand food so special! Made with Care: New Zealand food is safe, tasty, of premium quality, nutritious and ethical. 'Discover A Taste of New Zealand' fair, Cold Storage and CS Fresh stores islandwide,
Egypt Independent
10-04-2025
- Politics
- Egypt Independent
New Zealand politicians sing as bill that sparked massive protests is ‘annihilated'
CNN — New Zealand politicians broke out in song Thursday after striking down a right-wing-backed proposal that opponents feared would erode indigenous rights. Tens of thousands of people – predominantly from the Māori community – had already taken to the streets to oppose the bill, which sought to redefine the terms of a treaty that British colonialists signed with the indigenous group more than 180 years ago. The proposal made global headlines when a video went viral of the nation's youngest legislator tearing the bill in two and leading a haka – a ceremonial Māori dance – in parliament. As the bill was voted down by 112 votes to 11 on Thursday, after an occasionally heated session, politicians from both sides of the house sang a Māori song, or Waiata, in celebration, marking the end of a bitter public debate. 'This bill hasn't been stopped, this bill has been absolutely annihilated,' said Hana-Rāwihti Maipi-Clarke, the MP who led the parliamentary haka during the earlier debate. The Treaty Principles Bill sought to define the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi – an agreement signed between the British Crown and a group of indigenous Māori leaders in the 1840s, which formalized New Zealand as a British colony and reserved Māori land and customary rights. Its proponent, David Seymour, argued parliament needed to define the principles of the treaty because definitions currently only existed in a series of court rulings made over decades – rather than in an act of parliament. His ACT Party – a minority party in the right-wing governing coalition – believes the current law has led to a society where Māori have been afforded different rights and privileges to non-Māori in New Zealand. Opponents said the courts had already settled the principles of the treaty and that the draft list Seymour put forward would erode indigenous rights and harm social cohesion. Speaking in parliament on Thursday, Labour MP Willie Jackson called the bill 'right-wing obscenity, masquerading as equality.' Labour's leader Chris Hipkins, the former prime minister, said the debate would be a 'stain on the country' and called the proposed law change a 'grubby little bill, born of a grubby little deal.' The bill was allowed to pass through to the select committee stage because the ACT Party had made it a condition of the coalition deal that helped put Prime Minister Christopher Luxon's ruling National Party into power. But the Nationals and the other party in the coalition, New Zealand First, never agreed to support the bill beyond the select committee stage. Luxon had tried to publicly distance himself and his party from it. Despite the overwhelming opposition, Seymour has vowed to 'never give up' on his efforts to change the law. 'The idea that your race matters is a version of a bigger problem, it's part of that bigger idea that our lives are determined by things out of our control,' he said in parliament on Thursday. 'Cremation day' Māori-Crown relations minister Tama Potaka, a National MP, hailed Thursday as 'cremation day' for the bill. 'It's dead, it's gone and (today) it will be buried,' he told CNN affiliate RNZ on Thursday. Prime Minister Luxon was not present in parliament as the bill was voted down, drawing the ire of those behind the public campaign against it. 'If you're the leader of this country and you've got a Bill in Parliament that had 300,000 submissions made on it, which broke every single record by a country mile, you would think that the leader of our country would want to be in Parliament for an occasion that big,' Tania Waikato, a lawyer for the Toitū te Tiriti campaign, told RNZ.
Yahoo
10-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
New Zealand politicians sing as bill that sparked massive protests is ‘annihilated'
New Zealand politicians broke out in song Thursday after striking down a right-wing-backed proposal that opponents feared would erode indigenous rights. Tens of thousands of people – predominantly from the Māori community – had already taken to the streets to oppose the bill, which sought to redefine the terms of a treaty that British colonialists signed with the indigenous group more than 180 years ago. The proposal made global headlines when a video went viral of the nation's youngest legislator tearing the bill in two and leading a haka – a ceremonial Māori dance – in parliament. As the bill was voted down by 112 votes to 11 on Thursday, after an occasionally heated session, politicians from both sides of the house sang a Māori song, or Waiata, in celebration, marking the end of a bitter public debate. 'This bill hasn't been stopped, this bill has been absolutely annihilated,' said Hana-Rāwihti Maipi-Clarke, the MP who led the parliamentary haka during the earlier debate. The Treaty Principles Bill sought to define the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi – an agreement signed between the British Crown and a group of indigenous Māori leaders in the 1840s, which formalized New Zealand as a British colony and reserved Māori land and customary rights. Its proponent, David Seymour, argued parliament needed to define the principles of the treaty because definitions currently only existed in a series of court rulings made over decades – rather than in an act of parliament. His ACT Party – a minority party in the right-wing governing coalition – believes the current law has led to a society where Māori have been afforded different rights and privileges to non-Māori in New Zealand. Opponents said the courts had already settled the principles of the treaty and that the draft list Seymour put forward would erode indigenous rights and harm social cohesion. Speaking in parliament on Thursday, Labour MP Willie Jackson called the bill 'right-wing obscenity, masquerading as equality.' Labour's leader Chris Hipkins, the former prime minister, said the debate would be a 'stain on the country' and called the proposed law change a 'grubby little bill, born of a grubby little deal.' The bill was allowed to pass through to the select committee stage because the ACT Party had made it a condition of the coalition deal that helped put Prime Minister Christopher Luxon's ruling National Party into power. But the Nationals and the other party in the coalition, New Zealand First, never agreed to support the bill beyond the select committee stage. Luxon had tried to publicly distance himself and his party from it. Despite the overwhelming opposition, Seymour has vowed to 'never give up' on his efforts to change the law. 'The idea that your race matters is a version of a bigger problem, it's part of that bigger idea that our lives are determined by things out of our control,' he said in parliament on Thursday. Māori-Crown relations minister Tama Potaka, a National MP, hailed Thursday as 'cremation day' for the bill. 'It's dead, it's gone and (today) it will be buried,' he told CNN affiliate RNZ on Thursday. Prime Minister Luxon was not present in parliament as the bill was voted down, drawing the ire of those behind the public campaign against it. 'If you're the leader of this country and you've got a Bill in Parliament that had 300,000 submissions made on it, which broke every single record by a country mile, you would think that the leader of our country would want to be in Parliament for an occasion that big,' Tania Waikato, a lawyer for the Toitū te Tiriti campaign, told RNZ. CNN's Helen Regan contributed reporting.
CNN
10-04-2025
- Politics
- CNN
New Zealand politicians sing as bill that sparked massive protests is ‘annihilated'
New Zealand politicians broke out in song Thursday after striking down a right-wing-backed proposal that opponents feared would erode indigenous rights. Tens of thousands of people – predominantly from the Māori community – had already taken to the streets to oppose the bill, which sought to redefine the terms of a treaty that British colonialists signed with the indigenous group more than 180 years ago. The proposal made global headlines when a video went viral of the nation's youngest legislator tearing the bill in two and leading a haka – a ceremonial Māori dance – in parliament. As the bill was voted down by 112 votes to 11 on Thursday, after an occasionally heated session, politicians from both sides of the house sang a Māori song, or Waiata, in celebration, marking the end of a bitter public debate. 'This bill hasn't been stopped, this bill has been absolutely annihilated,' said Hana-Rāwihti Maipi-Clarke, the MP who led the parliamentary haka during the earlier debate. The Treaty Principles Bill sought to define the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi – an agreement signed between the British Crown and a group of indigenous Māori leaders in the 1840s, which formalized New Zealand as a British colony and reserved Māori land and customary rights. Its proponent, David Seymour, argued parliament needed to define the principles of the treaty because definitions currently only existed in a series of court rulings made over decades – rather than in an act of parliament. His ACT Party – a minority party in the right-wing governing coalition – believes the current law has led to a society where Māori have been afforded different rights and privileges to non-Māori in New Zealand. Opponents said the courts had already settled the principles of the treaty and that the draft list Seymour put forward would erode indigenous rights and harm social cohesion. Speaking in parliament on Thursday, Labour MP Willie Jackson called the bill 'right-wing obscenity, masquerading as equality.' Labour's leader Chris Hipkins, the former prime minister, said the debate would be a 'stain on the country' and called the proposed law change a 'grubby little bill, born of a grubby little deal.' The bill was allowed to pass through to the select committee stage because the ACT Party had made it a condition of the coalition deal that helped put Prime Minister Christopher Luxon's ruling National Party into power. But the Nationals and the other party in the coalition, New Zealand First, never agreed to support the bill beyond the select committee stage. Luxon had tried to publicly distance himself and his party from it. Despite the overwhelming opposition, Seymour has vowed to 'never give up' on his efforts to change the law. 'The idea that your race matters is a version of a bigger problem, it's part of that bigger idea that our lives are determined by things out of our control,' he said in parliament on Thursday. Māori-Crown relations minister Tama Potaka, a National MP, hailed Thursday as 'cremation day' for the bill. 'It's dead, it's gone and (today) it will be buried,' he told CNN affiliate RNZ on Thursday. Prime Minister Luxon was not present in parliament as the bill was voted down, drawing the ire of those behind the public campaign against it. 'If you're the leader of this country and you've got a Bill in Parliament that had 300,000 submissions made on it, which broke every single record by a country mile, you would think that the leader of our country would want to be in Parliament for an occasion that big,' Tania Waikato, a lawyer for the Toitū te Tiriti campaign, told RNZ. CNN's Helen Regan contributed reporting.
