{"id":75029,"date":"2025-10-13T05:12:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T05:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/75029\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T05:12:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T05:12:06","slug":"brian-tamaki-fails-to-get-permission-for-protest-march-over-harbour-bridge-on-labour-weekend-vows-to-make-new-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/75029\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Tamaki fails to get permission for protest march over Harbour Bridge on Labour Weekend, vows to make new plan"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u201cPolice are aware that organisers of a march over Auckland Harbour Bridge on Sunday 26 October have been denied approval for pedestrian access,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n
Destiny Church leader Brian Tamaki on Queen St. Photo \/ Alex Burton<\/p>\n
\u201cPolice are continuing to communicate with protest organisers.\u201d<\/p>\n
Labour weekend is generally a high-traffic holiday weekend and Tamaki\u2019s original plan was that his immigration-themed protest \u2013 dubbed the \u201cMarch for New Zealand\u201d \u2013 would see supporters walk from the North Shore to Auckland\u2019s CBD on the Sunday, he said.<\/p>\n
Tamaki told the Herald last week he had decided to postpone the October 26 protest so the community would not be inconvenienced and had asked his team to advise the authorities.<\/p>\n
The H\u012bkoi m\u014d te Tiriti crossed the Auckland Harbour Bridge into Auckland in November 2024. Photo \/ NZME<\/p>\n
\u201cI took into consideration the timing is going to inconvenience a lot of people that are on holiday so decided to postpone the march,\u201d Tamaki said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt would delay a lot of people on holiday … and that\u2019s not our intention. We know on a Sunday afternoon that the bridge will be full of traffic and that would hurt our cause.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tamaki said he wants the march to go ahead at a later date and he wants it to unite New Zealanders.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are losing our identity and our way of life and that\u2019s because of mass immigration. Many ethnicities are outnumbering us in places like social housing, the workplace, everywhere,\u201d he claimed.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not saying they are not good people but the blame should be laid at the Government\u2019s feet,\u201d Tamaki said.<\/p>\n
He said he believed Kiwis were leaving their own country because it was not what it used to be.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe fear I have for my great-grandchildren is what kind of country will they grow up in,\u201d Tamaki said.<\/p>\n
Joseph Los\u2019e is an award winning journalist and joined NZME in 2022 as Kaupapa M\u0101ori Editor. Los\u2019e was a chief reporter, news director at the Sunday News newspaper covering crime, justice and sport. He was also editor of the NZ Truth and prior to joining NZME worked for urban M\u0101ori organisation Wh\u0101nau Waipareira.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cPolice are aware that organisers of a march over Auckland Harbour Bridge on Sunday 26 October have been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[51,1558,5159,1565,12897,12513,1332,2082,1333,58759,20589,42,26755,15415,6721,5812,1535,3051,117,43,10711,90,31425,1523,26584,2170,25394,16654,58758,31421,61,40,38,41,39,53865,4770,4767],"class_list":["post-75029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-auckland","tag-been","tag-brian","tag-bridge","tag-church","tag-failed","tag-fails","tag-for","tag-get","tag-greenlight","tag-harbour","tag-headlines","tag-highway","tag-information","tag-labour","tag-make","tag-march","tag-necessary","tag-new","tag-news","tag-officials","tag-on","tag-organised","tag-over","tag-permission","tag-plan","tag-protest","tag-provide","tag-scuppered","tag-tamaki","tag-to","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-vows","tag-walking","tag-weekend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75029","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=75029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}