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 ...

ACT leader David Seymour is promising to reignite the Treaty principles debate next year, saying he'll never move on from his ...

Thousands of marchers descended upon New Zealand’s largest city of Auckland on Wednesday as part of the Hīkoi mō te Tiriti (March for the Treaty of Waitangi) to call for Māori (New Zealand’s ...

Protests erupted inside and outside of New Zealand’s parliament this week as the country’s far-right ACT New Zealand Party pushed a bill to redefine a treaty outlining the rights of the indigenous ...

Former Finance Minister Ruth Richardson has spoken in support of the Treaty Principles Bill, saying it is legislation of "consequence, whose time has come". Oral submissions have continued on the ...

Legal experts and Māori advocates say the fight to protect Te Tiriti is only just beginning - as the controversial Treaty Principles Bill is officially killed in Parliament. The bill - which seeks to ...

The New Zealand coalition government’s Treaty Principles Bill, aimed at sowing divisions between indigenous Māori and non-Māori, has sparked widespread public opposition. Part of the November 19 ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand lawmakers dealt an overwhelming defeat Thursday to a controversial proposed law seeking to redefine the country’s founding treaty between Māori tribes and the ...