The controversial Treaty Principles Bill would end the Māori right of self-determination outlined in a nearly 200-year-old ...

The Treaty Principles Bill seeks to revise New Zealand’s foundational agreement with Maori people and is hugely unpopular, ...

Thousands of people have joined a nine-day march to New Zealand’s capital, Wellington, to protest a contentious bill that ...

Clarke, New Zealand's youngest MP, performed a haka during House proceedings, opposing a bill that reinterprets a treaty ...

The Treaty of Waitangi, considered New Zealand’s founding document, takes its name from the Bay of Islands location.

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 ...

The party’s controversial Treaty Principles Bill passed its first reading in Parliament on Thursday, voted for by coalition ...

The New Zealand Parliament is gathering public submissions for a proposed piece of legislation seeking to make pay secrecy ...

New Zealand's parliament witnessed a powerful protest as opposition MPs performed a haka to oppose a controversial bill. The ...

Opposition lawmakers performed the haka during a reading of a bill that would redefine the country’s founding treaty with its Indigenous people.

The Treaty of Waitangi, which is the focus of the proposed bill, dates back to 1840 and is considered New Zealand's founding ...