A storm of purple is descending on Parliament as hundreds of midwives deliver a petition to Health Minister David Clark calling for urgent sustainable funding for midwifery.
Singing We're Not Going To Take It, the midwives and their supporters marched down Lambton Quay to protest pay as low as $7 an hour.
Some claim they haven't had a pay rise in over 17 years, and are struggling to pay student loans and mortgages.
Clark spoke to the midwives, as marked International Midwives Day with a protest about long hours and low pay, marching on Parliament to deliver Clark a book of personal messages.
Clark said he heard what the midwives had to say.