{"id":93216,"date":"2025-10-22T00:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T00:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/93216\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T00:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T00:59:10","slug":"speaker-taking-advice-after-tpm-mps-burn-bill-outside-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/93216\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker ‘taking advice’ after TPM MPs burn bill outside Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Speaker of the House is “taking advice” after two Te Pati M\u0101ori MPs burnt a copy of a government bill outside Parliament yesterday, calling the act “the dumbest thing you could possibly do”.<\/p>\n

Te Pati M\u0101ori shared a video of co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer and MP T\u0101kuta Ferris on social media last night, in which they set fire to a copy of the Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) (Customary Marine Title) Amendment Bill<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the video, Ferris said they were supporting the “burn the bill” movement, where protesters gathered on beaches and burnt copies of the legislation.<\/p>\n

“Hurry up before we get arrested,” Ngarewa-Packer could be heard saying as Ferris ignites the paper, which was held in a bucket labelled “r\u0101pihi” (rubbish). <\/p>\n

“We send this bill into the hand of Mahuika [the goddess of fire],” Ferris said in te reo.<\/p>\n

Speaker of the House Gerry Brownlee said he was made aware of the video last night and was “currently taking advice”. <\/p>\n

“It is the dumbest thing you could possibly do. It is highly arrogant and unacceptably irresponsible.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Speaker<\/p>\n

Speaker of the House Gerry Brownlee speaks during question time at Parliament on March 06, 2024 in Wellington. File photo. (Source: Getty)<\/p>\n

The bill in question passed its third and final reading last night. <\/p>\n

The Bill introduces a new, tougher test<\/a> for recognition of customary rights that M\u0101ori would need to meet to stop certain activities that require a resource consent.<\/p>\n

Ngarewa-Packer told NZ Herald the actions were to show her solidarity with those opposed to the bill, which she believed would have “horrific” consequences for race relations. <\/p>\n

Responding to the Speaker, she accused him of having double standards and holding Te Pati M\u0101ori to a higher standard than other parties. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not here to please the Speaker.\u201d<\/p>\n

The events come after the Speaker set out plans<\/a> last week to crack down on standards in Parliament after new Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori MP Oriini Kaipara’s maiden speech went well over time and was followed by an unsanctioned haka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Speaker of the House is “taking advice” after two Te Pati M\u0101ori MPs burnt a copy of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[57067,4432,111,43,139,69,135,8027],"class_list":{"0":"post-93216","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-debbie-ngarewa-packer","9":"tag-maori-issues","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-politics","15":"tag-te-pati-maori"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93216","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=93216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}