{"id":67168,"date":"2025-10-09T06:04:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T06:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/67168\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T06:04:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T06:04:06","slug":"man-removed-from-parliaments-gallery-during-foreshore-and-seabed-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/67168\/","title":{"rendered":"Man removed from Parliament\u2019s gallery during foreshore and seabed debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PIBTdnNRHybHVehKG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIn 2011, there was a test established for marine customary title&#8230; the court of appeal got that wrong. What we want to make sure is that actually the intention of this house is restored,\u201d Stephenson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PIBTdnNRHybHVehKG\" style=\"display:none\">Edwards called out after Stephenson had finished, and as NZ First\u2019s Jenny Marcroft was about to speak, asking, \u201cko wai hoki koutou? (who are you\/what authority do you have?)\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"PIBTdnNRHybHVehKG\" style=\"display:none\">He questioned the Government\u2019s authority, saying the Government was trampling on M\u0101ori sovereignty and on the mana of the foreshore and seabed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PIBTdnNRHybHVehKG\" style=\"display:none\">Speaking on behalf of Ng\u0101ti Wai, he said his iwi didn\u2019t agree to the Government\u2019s changes. He was then removed from the gallery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PIBTdnNRHybHVehKG\" style=\"display:none\">Green Party MP H\u016bhana Lyndon later spoke in opposition to the legislation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PIBTdnNRHybHVehKG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cLike a thief in the night, this Government comes through with this legislation that will raupatu (confiscate), the biggest raupatu that M\u0101ori will suffer, to our mana takutai moana \u2013 because what was the issue? What was the problem that this Government is seeking to change and improve?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"PIBTdnNRHybHVehKG\" style=\"display:none\">She referenced the disruption in her speech, saying she agreed with her rangatira from Ng\u0101ti Wai who had affirmed the iwi had not ceded its sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PIBTdnNRHybHVehKG\" style=\"display:none\">\u2013 RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIn 2011, there was a test established for marine customary title&#8230; the court of appeal got that wrong.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[95,4101,2837,54084,71,1229,40627,40626,5158,111,43,139,69,17317,5196,54085],"class_list":["post-67168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-and","tag-debate","tag-during","tag-foreshore","tag-from","tag-gallery","tag-hanly","tag-lillian","tag-man","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-parliaments","tag-removed","tag-seabed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}