{"id":91258,"date":"2025-10-21T02:33:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T02:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/91258\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T02:33:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T02:33:06","slug":"protesters-plan-beach-fires-nationwide-over-marine-and-coastal-area-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/91258\/","title":{"rendered":"Protesters plan beach fires nationwide over Marine and Coastal Area Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cHistory shows it\u2019s never good when they start burning books and this sounds unenlightened and anti-intellectual. What we need is more enlightened debate and not the 21st-century version of book burning.\u201d<\/p>\n

Taipari said at 6pm, Parliament will hear the third reading of the Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Amendment Bill (Maca) and it seemed right for Kiwis to burn the bill to light fires on their beaches to symbolise the mana and the ihi me te wehi (fear) is still strong.<\/p>\n

He said k\u014drero, waiata and karakia (speeches, songs and prayers) will be conducted until the appropriate time to cast a copy of the bill into the fire to conclude the gathering.<\/p>\n

\"JusticeJustice Minister Paul Goldsmith.<\/p>\n

Organisers are calling people to vigilant and stay safe.<\/p>\n

\u201cFind strength in this moment of solidarity that the raupatu [confiscation] of our takutaimoana [coast, foreshore and seabed] will never be extinguished,\u201d Taipari said.<\/p>\n

Taipari said the initiative came from a Te Tai Tokerau kuia to continue the country\u2019s abhorrence to the legislation.<\/p>\n

Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith, the bill\u2019s author, said: \u201cPeople are entitled to protest as they will.\u201d<\/p>\n

The bill<\/a> was proposed by the Government to tighten the legal test for M\u0101ori to gain customary marine title (CMT).<\/p>\n

\"NorthlandNorthland elder Ruben Taipari who arrived at Parliament last week with 20,000 strong petition opposing the Government’s Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Amendment Bill.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have been opposing this Maca bill for 12 months and last week took our petition to Wellington,\u201d Taipari said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe got back North and thought we still have the third reading on Tuesday night, so thought what else could we do.<\/p>\n

\u201cRather than do a h\u012bkoi and expend energy on a national h\u012bkoi, to a Government who don\u2019t listen to the people, we decided to create awareness at home amongst people not to lose hope.\u201d <\/p>\n

\"DeputyDeputy Prime Minister and Act leader David Seymour. <\/p>\n

\u201cBurn the bill is symbolism. When ever we were under attack, our kaitiaki [guardians\/trustees] would light fires to say the enemy is approaching.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s what we are doing tonight and using our cultural connections and why 21 years later it is still an important issue for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Joseph Los\u2019e joined NZME in 2022 as Kaupapa M\u0101ori Editor. Los\u2019e was a chief reporter, news director at the Sunday News covering crime, justice and sport. He was also editor of the NZ Truth and before joining NZME worked for urban M\u0101ori organisation Wh\u0101nau Waipareira.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cHistory shows it\u2019s never good when they start burning books and this sounds unenlightened and anti-intellectual. What we…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51164,95,12635,7972,7974,16574,14146,9191,68454,18939,28167,63,106,19635,41654,23158,111,43,139,69,1523,384,2170,25266,1111,68455,3755,5911],"class_list":["post-91258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-amendment","tag-and","tag-area","tag-beach","tag-beaches","tag-bill","tag-burn","tag-coastal","tag-copies","tag-encouraging","tag-enters","tag-fires","tag-head","tag-marine","tag-moana","tag-nationwide","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-over","tag-people","tag-plan","tag-protesters","tag-reading","tag-takutai","tag-third","tag-tonight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91258","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=91258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}