Live updates from Waitangi: Luxon, Seymour on the reception to their speeches

Live updates from Waitangi as the government is welcomed onto Treaty Grounds.

The government has been welcomed onto the Treaty Grounds amid much wariness, following nearly a full week of talks about uniting against the new government policies, specifically Act’s Treaty Principles Bill and the deprioritisation of te reo Māori. Party leaders and Ngāpuhi leaders have spoken on the pae.