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People crowded streets of the capital Wellington with flags aloft on Tuesday

Controversial legislation revises the 184-year-old Treaty of Waitangi granting Maori tribes land rights.

The vote was for the controversial Treaty Principals Bill which seeks to reinterpret one of the country’s founding documents.

The bill objects to certain to "ethnic quotas in public institutions," arguing protections for Māori culture defy "the principle of equal rights."

A vote in New Zealand’s parliament was suspended and two lawmakers ejected Thursday amid debate over a controversial proposed law redefining the country’s founding agreement between Indigenous Māori and the British Crown

Voting temporarily suspended amid disruptions including a Māori party MP ripping up a copy of the bill

With the protest hikoi from the far north moving through Auckland on its way to Wellington, it might be said ACT leader David Seymour has been granted his wish of generating an “important national conversation about the place of the Treaty in our constitutional arrangements”.

Bill introduced in parliament this week wants to reinterpret Treaty of Waitangi, which upholds Māori rights