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

Activists are protesting proposed changes to New Zealand's foundational document, the Treaty of Waitangi. But is the bill ...

The Treaty Principles Bills will face its first vote on Thursday afternoon in what is expected to be a heated session in Parliament. Opposition politicians will first grill members of the Government, ...

Move forward to today and a bill is tabled in Parliament to clarify what is meant in today’s terms of the document written and signed 184 years ago and all hell has broken loose. Māori are ...

The Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill will likely die after it goes to select committee – or will it? A possible ...

The bill also states that principles of the Treaty "other than those set out" by the Treaty Principles Bill "must not be used to interpret an enactment", and clarifies that the Treaty Principles Bill ...

Members of the King's Counsel say the coalition's Treaty Principles Bill "seeks to rewrite the Treaty itself" and would have ...

Nearly ten thousand people took to the streets in New Zealand to protest the introduction of the controversial Treaty ...

The 1840 agreement between indigenous Māori and the British Crown is considered the nation’s founding document.

New Zealand police reported that about 10,000 people marched through the town of Rotorua in protest against the Treaty ...

Approximately 10,000 protesters marched through Rotorua, New Zealand, voicing their opposition to the Treaty Principles Bill. As they made their way south towards the capital, Wellington, they were ...

Moving the introduction of the Treaty Principles Bill forward is another example of this National-led government completely ...