Stirring 'haka' dance disrupts New Zealand's parliament
Indigenous Maori lawmakers disrupted New Zealand's parliament with a stirring "haka" dance, voicing opposition to a race relations bill that has ignited protests across the country. Thousands have joined a "hikoi" protest march travelling the country to drum up opposition,
The Treaty of Waitangi, considered New Zealand’s founding document, takes its name from the Bay of Islands location.
New Zealand's parliament engages in a heated debate over a controversial bill attempting to reinterpret the Treaty of ...
The Treaty Principles Bills will face its first vote on Thursday afternoon in what is expected to be a heated session in Parliament. Opposition politicians will first grill members of the Government, ...
The legislation says the Crown recognises, and will respect and protect, the rights that hapū and iwi Māori had under the ...
In its submission calling for a halt to the Treaty Principles Bill, the Commission recalls the words of Bishop Manuhuia Bennett who described Te Tiriti as ‘the promise of two peoples to take the best ...
Māori say the move undermines Te Tiriti o Waitangi - the Treaty of Waitangi - and disrespects their ancestors who signed it.
Clavé-Mercier, Valentin 2024. Politics of Sovereignty: Settler Resonance and Māori Resistance in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Ethnopolitics, Vol. 23, Issue. 1, p. 1.
"The government's own lawyers recognise the bill would at first blush undermine Māori people's rights," a law professor says.
The Treaty of Waitangi was signed in 1840 between the British Crown and more than 500 Maori chiefs. It paved the way for British annexation of New Zealand while requiring the Crown to protect Maori ...
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