A proposed law that would redefine New Zealand’s founding treaty with its Indigenous people has triggered political turmoil.

New Zealand's parliament was brought to a temporary halt by MPs performing a haka, amid anger over a controversial bill ...

"Kill the bill" was the cry from the hīkoi as it stood before Parliament - and that's likely to happen with National and NZ ...

The Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill, or Treaty Principles Bill, introduced by the ACT Party, passed its first ...

By mid-afternoon today 42,000 people gathered at the Parliamentary precinct and the surrounding streets, police say.

That Treaty predates the emergence of our parliamentary democracy and the even later emergence of full adult suffrage as ...

Te Pāti Māori and the Act Party are claiming victory over the response to a video from Thursday’s Treaty Principles Bill ...

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 ...

Interviewed earlier before Question Time, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said it was up to Parliament’s justice committee ...

Much coverage has focussed on the protest that followed the speeches - but they themselves were enthusiastic, outraged, angry, even despairing.

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