The four-page Treaty Principles Bill has been introduced and will be debated in Parliament next week. As with all bills, the text begins with an explanatory note, includes links to some of the ...

New Zealand lawmakers have dealt an overwhelming defeat to a controversial proposed law seeking to redefine the country's founding treaty between Māori tribes and the British Crown.

But beyond the differences came a curious confirmation: that ACT would be campaigning next year to "keep this government".

Analysis - With select committee hearings complete, the many submitters who called for the Regulatory Standards Bill to be ...

The Treaty Principles Bill proposes reinterpreting the Treaty of Waitangi, an 1840 agreement guaranteeing the Māori certain land and cultural rights in exchange for allowing the British to govern.

The Treaty Principles Bill sought to define the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi – an agreement signed between the British Crown and a group of indigenous Māori leaders in the 1840s, which ...

New Zealand's centre-right government on Thursday introduced a bill aimed at reinterpreting the country's founding agreement, triggering protests by Indigenous Maori groups who said it would ...

The reviewers of all Treaty of Waitangi clauses in legislation include three lawyers and a director, and will be expected to ...

Bill aims to redefine Treaty of Waitangi principles Two coalition parties will not support bill becoming law Bill is controversial, seen as undermining Maori rights WELLINGTON, Sept 11 (Reuters ...

Every party except Act is expected to vote down the controversial Treaty Principles Bill this afternoon on a occasion one senior minister has described as “cremation day.” The Treaty ...

A hīkoi (protest march) spanning the entirety of New Zealand’s north island against the government’s constitutionally consequential “Treaty Principles Bill” began Monday from Cape Reinga, the ...