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

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

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

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

Members of the King’s Counsel, some of New Zealand’s most senior legal minds, say the Treaty Principles Bill “seeks to ...

The Treaty Principles Bill will face its first vote on Thursday afternoon in what is expected to be a heated session in ...

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

A boy celebrates Waitangi Day which marks the signing ... The bill proposes three principles for the treaty. Loading The first is that the government and parliament have full power to make laws ...

Senior Labour Māori MP Willow-Jean Prime says tabling the Treaty Principles Bill today will be the most significant modern ...

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

In 1975, the Waitangi Tribunal was established to hear claims brought by Māori on whether legislation, policies or actions by the Crown breached the treaty principles. A prominent victory was a ...

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