Wellington protest

News from NZ Police There will be a significant Police presence around Wellington City ahead of planned protest activity expected tomorrow.

Police will maintain high-visibility throughout the city, particularly in the area around Parliament grounds. There will be a significant Police presence around Wellington City ahead of planned protest activity expected tomorrow. Our focus will be around public safety and ensuring that the disruption to the public is kept to a minimum.

There will be a "significant" police presence around Wellington City on Tuesday as anti-Government protesters descend on Parliament.

Buses are being diverted and roads are blocked, but city leaders are confident a planned protest around Parliament will cause minimal disruption.

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With the Freedom and Rights Coalition set to march on parliament and stage a mock trial, Andy Foster says he's not expecting a repeat of the occupation.

Our focus will be around public safety and ensuring that the disruption to the public is kept to a minimum.” The FRC group intends to march from Civic Square at 10am, with the “people’s court” scheduled for 11am at the grounds of parliament. Further to the fringes, some call for the overthrow of the entire system of parliament. The overarching sentiment is anti-establishment, framed as a “freedom movement”, and routinely laced with misinformation. The causes trumpeted by Tamaki cover a range of areas, including opposition to remaining vaccine mandates, three waters legislation, the shortcomings of the health system, gang crime and the cost of living. And I don’t think you can say, ‘we’re a team of five million, except for you guys.’ We’ve got to try and make sure we bridge some of these divides in our community.” “I’m so excited,” said Tamaki on a Facebook livestream last night as he warmed up for a day of protest. It’s some of the others who might be a little less inclined to go off on a different tangent.” The extremity of individuals and groups present at the occupation six months ago, many of whom have indicated they will attend again today, I think it could have been done.” What was underappreciated, he added, is “that you have clearly got a significant number of people in our community who feel quite disengaged. I don’t think people understood what resources the city council has and what it doesn’t have.” Tamaki is also expected to announce the parties with whom he has reached “firm verbal agreements” to form an “umbrella movement” – modelled on Jim Anderton’s Alliance structure – to contest the next election. And the responsibility is to try not to undermine people’s businesses and make people feel unsafe.

The march, organised by the Freedom and Rights Coalition, will begin at Civic Square before moving towards the Beehive.

They included that they leave come nightfall. "We’re imploring people to be peaceful and lawful. Speaker of the House Trevor Mallard said in a statement on Friday that the protesters are welcome, under the a list of "expectations". Some roads around Parliament are blocked off, concrete bollards are in place around Parliament and some windows in the Beehive are blacked out. Ardern says the right to protest is part of who New Zealand is as a nation. "Parliament is a place where of course over many years we have welcomed peaceful and lawful protest and we want to see that ability resumed but of course what’s most important is that it remains peaceful and lawful," Ardern said.

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Buses are being diverted and roads are blocked, but city leaders are confident a planned protest around Parliament will cause minimal disruption.

The crowd at Te Ngākau Civic Square had grown to nearly 1000 people by about 10.20am. Buses will also replace train services between Paekākāriki and Waikanae. But if it is too dangerous, we will close.” Routes 1, 2, 3, 7, 12, 14, 22, 23, 24, 25, 52, 83 will be affected by the detour. And do you recall where you first heard of a convoy headed to Parliament in 2022, and where you watched a blow-by-blow account of the following 23 days? Not to forget the celebrations of Wellington, the arts, the coffee, the craft beer, the wind. Buses are replacing some daytime train services on the Melling line and Hutt Valley lines and some evening train services on the Hutt Valley and Kāpiti lines on Tuesday due to maintenance. It is an attempt to stop a repeat of a convoy that arrived in Wellington in February starting a 23-day occupation around Parliament that crippled parts of the city. The arrival of Brian Tamaki’s Freedom & Rights Coalition at Parliament’s grounds on Tuesday was expected to attract upwards of 1000 protesters with a significant police presence in the city, including officers from out of town. Security guards were posted outside the Victoria University law school and bollards were in place blocking vehicle entrance to Parliament grounds and the Parliament end of Lambton Quay and lower Molesworth St. Road closures would remain in place until the end of the protest and structures would not be permitted on Parliament grounds. Police say they will continue to enforce trespass orders for people trespassed from Parliament grounds earlier in the year as crowds build at Te Ngākau Civic Square, ahead of the anti-government protest at Parliament grounds.

The march, organised by the Freedom and Rights Coalition, will begin at Civic Square.

"We’re imploring people to be peaceful and lawful. Follow 1News' live updates as the Freedom and Rights Coalition plan to protest at Parliament. They included that they leave come nightfall. Ardern says the right to protest is part of who New Zealand is as a nation. The march is organised by Brian Tamaki's Freedom and Rights Coalition. - The march is organised by Brian Tamaki's Freedom and Rights Coalition

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Road closures included the Parliament end of Lambton Quay, lower Molesworth St and Kate Sheppard Place. About 1000 people were expected, give or take, he said earlier in the week. Up to 100 convoy vehicles were seen driving together across three lanes along Auckland's Southern Motorway. "Additional police staff have been called in from outside of the Wellington Police District and plans are in place to respond if required." The two groups jeered at each other on either side of a police line. even my guys will be telling them [to] put them away." "We're there for a day. we don't want any violence," he said. "Staff and students have been informed of the planned protest and may choose to work or study remotely if they prefer.'' Scores of Wellington office staff and students have been given the option to work from home to avoid the march. Tamaki said he was not involved in the previous protest, saying he had been involved in 150 other protests and "not one single one was violent". A standoff is emerging at Parliament between the Brian Tamaki-led anti-Government protest and counter protesters shouting at them to "go home".

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“Parliament’s Speaker of the House has given Police permission to run an operational base out of parliament buildings,” he said. “Despite providing an opportunity to resolve his issues and to rebuild trust he has repeatedly demonstrated that he no longer wishes to be a member of the caucus. Caucus will today hold a special meeting to decide on the future of Sharma’s time in Labour. He added: “I am just wanting to present my side of the story and talk about what has happened… A nearby counter-protest at the Cenotaph has started, while a smattering of people outside parliament are shouting slogans like “government sponsored genocide”. “Gaurav Sharma has been expelled for his repeated and calculated breaches of caucus rules over the past 12 days,” said Ardern. Ardern said people should remember that the “root cause” of this situation was issues raised by Sharma’s own staff. He questioned whether a “fair process” had been carried out and reiterated that he wanted an independent investigation to clear his name. He, and his wife Hannah, railed against the “far left liberal agenda”. Speaking from outside parliament, where a crowd of up to 2,000 people has now gathered, the Destiny Church leader and anti-government protester said his new party had not yet been registered with the Electoral Commission. The protest at parliament grounds has wound up with a dramatised “people’s court” returning the least surprising verdict imaginable: guilty, said the crowd (or “jury”). While the two groups exchanged verbal salvos – before the main march passed a small group hollered slogans like “government sponsored genocide” – there was no serious incident as the demonstrators filed on to parliament grounds.

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Police will continue to maintain a visible presence to reassure local residents, businesses and people in the area. The Police focus today remained on balancing the safety of all protesters and the public, while acknowledging the right to protest peacefully and lawfully. I would also like to make special mention of the additional staff who travelled from elsewhere in the country to assist, and our external partners who also supported Police today.