CARE White Paper | Issue 22 | White Supremacist Networks and Anti-Māori Hate: Tracking the far-right discursive ecosystem around the 2024 hikoi

This white paper maps the discursive ecosystem of the far-right organised around the targeting of the 2024 hikoi resisting the Treaty Principles Bill. The hikoi emerged as a broad organising space for challenging the Bill, perceived by many as attack on the Treaty of Waitangi, drawing in tangata whenua and tauiwi into a collective movement. Organised over nine days across Aotearoa, with some groups beginning the journey from Far North and Bluff and pulling in approximately 50,000 participants from across the nation, the hikoi has been described as the largest protest march in national history. The Treaty Principles Bill is organised around a narrative of equality, promising equality to all New Zealand citizens. This framing of equality to target Indigenous rights resonates with the global uses of the language of equality in the far-right ecosystem to target diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). In response to the introduction of the Bill in New Zealand parliament, several Members of Parliament (MPs) expressed their opposition to the bill, with the Member of Parliament (MP) of Te Pati Māori Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke tearing a copy of the bill and then leading a haka in New Zealand parliament.


Read the CARE White Paper Issue 22 – White Supremacist Networks and Anti-Māori Hate: Tracking the far-right discursive ecosystem around the 2024 hikoi

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