New Zealand’s Treaty of Waitangi is a document signed by the colonial British regime and 500 Māori chiefs in 1840 that enshrines principles of co-governance between Indigenous and non ...

Lawmakers stage Māori protest in New Zealand's parliament during fraught race relations debate A protester against the Treaty Principal Bill sits outside Parliament in Wellington, New Zealand ...

Three New Zealand lawmakers from Te Pāti Māori, the Māori Party, will receive temporary bans from Parliament and severe censure, it was announced Wednesday, over their protest of a proposed law ...

While dozens of people are still unable to return home, National and Labour are already hinting at a Climate Adaptation plan ...

The Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill sought to redefine New Zealand’s founding document, the 1840 pact between the British Crown and Māori leaders signed during New Zealand’s ...

The three politicians from New Zealand's Te Pāti Māori party performed the haka when asked if they supported a controversial ...

The reviewers of all Treaty of Waitangi clauses in legislation include three lawyers and a director, and will be expected to ...

The law would also set up a Regulatory Standards Board, which would respond to concerns raised around the consistency of regulation. Appointed by the Regulation Minister (currently ACT Party Leader ...

The ACT Party fought to have a Treaty of Waitangi clause stripped out of amended education legislation - but was overruled.

For decades after the Treaty of Waitangi was signed, differences between the English and Māori texts and breaches by New Zealand governments intensified the disenfranchisement of Māori.

Tens of thousands of people have marched on the New Zealand parliament in Wellington to protest against a bill that critics say strikes at the core of the country’s founding principles and dilutes the ...