Thousands of people have joined a nine-day march to New Zealand's capital, Wellington, to protest a contentious bill that redefines the country's founding agreement between the British and the Indigenous Maori people,

The vote on the Treaty Principles Bill was interrupted on Thursday in new Zealand's Parliament after the country's youngest MP Hana-Rawhiti Kareariki Maipi-Clarke, staged traditional Maori dance and ripped apart a copy of a contentious bill.

New Zealand’s youngest Member of Parliament, Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, has once again captured national and international attention. The 22-year-old Te Pāti Maori MP staged a powerful protest against the contentious Treaty Principles Bill, by performing haka and tearing up a copy of the proposed legislation during a heated session in Parliament.