Treaty Principles Bill submissions hearings begin

The Treaty Principles Bill is designed to "subjugate, humiliate, assimilate and oppress iwi Maori" - that's just a taste of the criticism presented to MPs on the justice select committee at today's first hearing of submissions. More than 300,000 online written submissions were received and the sheer enormity of that number means the committee agreed to hear a range of views across 80 hours in the coming weeks. The bill has proved to be one of the most controversial in recent history. Lillian Hanly reports.