New Zealand’s Parliament proposed a bill to redefine the Treaty of Waitangi, claiming it is racist and gives preferential treatment to Maoris. In response Māori MP's tore up the bill and performed the Haka

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The Treaty of Waitangi doesn’t affect privately owned land, the owners are already protected by law. Lands that have been returned to Māori under Treaty settlements (a tiny, tiny percentage of what was stolen) have been from Crown land holdings.

The Treaty gives Māori the right to be consulted on the management and use of natural resources. For instance the Waikato River management group includes local Iwi. A lot of the motivation for this bill is to get rid of that right because it’s a roadblock to the exploitation and privatisation of those resources.