A former prime minister has warned the ACT Party is "inviting civil war" with its attempt to define the principle of Te Tiriti o Waitangi in law. The party's controversial Treaty Principles Bill ...

Māori lawmakers interrupted a New Zealand parliamentary vote with a Haka to protest a law that would erode the land and ...

The Speaker temporarily suspended the House, and when it reconvened half an hour later, he charged Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clark ...

Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke of Te Pāti Māori stood and began a rhythmic Māori chant of challenge, which swelled to a roar as ...

The Treaty Principles Bill dominated Parliament's week. How was it talked about in the House before it was debated, who focussed on it, who ignored it?

New Zealand’s parliament descended into chaos as Maori members staged a haka in protest against a bill that would ...

Seymour’s mean little Treaty Principles Bill prefers toi live in denial about our colonial legacy. It does so in the name of a bogus “equality” that assumes everyone in New Zealand enjoys equal access ...

A controversial proposed law redefining the country’s founding agreement between Indigenous Maori and the British Crown is unlikely to become law.

Maori tribes were promised extensive rights to retain their lands and protect their interests in return for ceding governance to the British, under the principles ... New Zealand leader David Seymour ...

Today, Parliament anticipates the first reading of Associate Justice Minister David Seymour’s Treaty Principles Bill. The ...