Conservative Luxon government has rolled back many of former PM’s progressive policies
More than 40,000 people marched on the New Zealand capital this week, in a show of anger at a proposed overhaul of a treaty underpinning Maori rights, as a conservative backlash against the liberal policies of former prime minister Jacinda Ardern gained traction. The protest — which included the famous “haka” dance — demonstrated the deep divisions in New Zealand, where the political pendulum has swung away from the progressive policies championed by Ardern.
Luxon has pledged that his National party will oppose the bill, despite backing its introduction, along with the other major parties. “You do not go negate, with a single stroke of a pen, 184 years of debate and discussion, with a bill that I think is very simplistic,” he told reporters last week.
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