and Chris Hipkins urges calm at Waitangi
Parliamentarians have been officially welcomed to Waitangi, 183 years after the signing of Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
Representatives from all parties were welcomed at once, during the parliamentary pōwhiri at the Treaty Grounds.
Organisers from the Waitangi National Trust asked that the pōwhiri be conducted predominantly in te reo Māori.
While the two biggest parties, National and Labour, conveyed the majority of their speeches in English, the minor parities stuck almost entirely to te reo Māori.
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