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It was the social movement that changed the country's political landscape. 20 years on, Tāmati Rimene-Sproat retraces t | dG1fM2x1NUIwV0RsOHc
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00:01It was just a real insult.
00:03It was just straight theft.
00:07How big a deal is this, actually?
00:09I don't think it's the first thing people are talking about over the coffee cups.
00:12It was a full-scale sweep.
00:15All ownership rights which were available to Māori, gone.
00:19I really didn't have anything to say about it.
00:21She was able to play us off.
00:23We had to accept a captain's call.
00:26I felt outraged to have been part of a government that was prepared to do that.
00:32I think it's about raw, fetal, selfish politics.
00:36One vote opposed.
00:38They were furious with me.
00:42It became clear that we needed to do something.
00:4620 years ago, as a 10-year-old boy myself, my whanau, some of my kura mates and thousands of
00:53others
00:53marched in one of the biggest protest movements in history.
00:57You knew yourself.
00:58This is something momentous.
01:01What it is is the same old faces, the Ken Mayors, the Harawara families, the haters and wreckers.
01:07What part of no don't they understand?
01:11He scratched the surface of a racist.
01:14Bang.
01:16The weight of people's emotions was palpable.
01:19This is about the anger of Māori.
01:22It's about time we started looking to a new future.
01:26I knew I had to do it.
01:27And there was more with us.
01:33So for DJ, when on theilanthuson, you click on the goal of the
01:37direction of the scripture.
01:38With that one eye to see...
01:43Protecting...
01:44Thankly him.
01:45How do this thing?
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