He urged the treaty partners to do better to address the challenges New Zealand still faces.
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Here is a video of New Zealand’s Economic Development Minister Stephen Joyce getting a dildo thrown at his face.
The sex toy hit Joyce squarely in the mouth before falling to the ground.
Joyce handled the incident like a consummate professional.
Labour leader Andrew Little has committed to return to Te Tii Marae and Waitangi every year if he is Prime Minister – the same pledge Prime Minister John Key made in 2007. When Joyce answered a question from a reporter touting the benefits of the agreement, Butler catapulted the dildo, shouting, “That’s for raping our sovereignty!”
Waitangi is traditionally the centre of New Zealand’s national day as the town where the Treaty of Waitangi was signed between the British Crown and indigenous Maori in 1840, paving the way for European colonisation.
Key said that his decision not to attend Waitangi Day celebrations had been vindicated. She was taken away by police and later released without charges.
But Mr Key pulled out of attending on Thursday after the trustees told him he would not be allowed to discuss politics at the signing location.
“Possibly the novelty factor, in a number of levels – I think people will have a chuckle for a day or two until the next thing comes along”.
While the incident gained huge attention in New Zealand, global media also joined in to joke at the incident.
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Mr Joyce later laughed it off and tweeted, “someone send the gif [image] over to [late-night talk show host] John Oliver so we can get it over with”.
