PM Christopher Luxon speaks at post-Cabinet press conference ahead of Govt apology for abuse in state care
The Government intends to outlaw the strip-searching of children and strengthen regulations to prevent people with overseas ...
Centre Block renovation facing timeline and budget 'pressures'
The multibillion-dollar renovation of Parliament’s Centre Block building continues to be on time and on budget, but ...
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Trudeau in Peru for APEC meeting as leaders seek to reinforce multilateralism
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in Peru, kicking off five days of meetings with leaders from around the globe as the world ...
New Zealanders are marching, performing haka to protest divisive bill
The Treaty Principles Bill seeks to revise New Zealand’s foundational agreement with Maori people and is hugely unpopular, ...
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Senior Lawyers Call For Treaty Principles Bill To Be Abandoned
The letter said the coalition's bill sought to "redefine in law the meaning of te Tiriti, by replacing the existing 'Treaty principles' with new Treaty principles which are said to reflect the ...
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Senior lawyers urge Government to ditch Treaty Principles Bill in new letter
42 members of the King's Counsel, some of New Zealand's most senior legal minds, are calling on the Government to abandon the Treaty Principles Bill. The group has written a letter to the Prime ...
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Treaty Principles Bill: Senior lawyers call for David Seymour’s Treaty Bill to be abandoned
The letter said the coalition’s bill sought to “redefine in law the meaning of te Tiriti, by replacing the existing ‘Treaty principles’ with new Treaty principles which are said to reflect ...
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Treaty Principles Bill Passes First Reading
Associate Justice Minister David Seymour says all New Zealanders will now be able to have their say on the Treaty Principles Bill after it passed its first reading and was sent to the Justice ...
Maori MPs stage haka protest against treaty bill
Maori lawmakers performed a haka in New Zealand's parliament, protesting a bill aimed at changing a treaty that granted land ...
"Do not negate 184 years of debate": Bill rolling back Māori rights in New Zealand faces backlash
The controversial Treaty Principles Bill would end the Māori right of self-determination outlined in a nearly 200-year-old ...
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The Treaty Principles Bill is already straining social cohesion – a referendum could be worse
Timed to coincide with the first reading of the contentious Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill on Thursday, the hikoi and other similar protests are a response to what many perceive as a ...
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Treaty Principles Bill passes first reading
Associate Justice Minister David Seymour says all New Zealanders will now be able to have their say on the Treaty Principles Bill after it passed its first reading and was sent to the Justice ...