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.

New Zealand's Treaty Principles Bill has been voted down in the country's parliament, killing off the controversial piece of proposed legislation.

Popular opposition to the far-right ACT Party’s bill was channelled into a campaign promoting national “unity” and denying ...

The Anzac Day Evening Service at the Waitangi Treaty Grounds is a free public event. The gates at Hobson Memorial at the ...

The Treaty Principles Bill has been brutally defeated in Parliament. We have highlights from key speeches, and explain why ...

Te Pāti Māori MPs boycotted a hearing regarding their haka protest against the Treaty Principles Bill, citing unfair ...

A controversial bill seeking to reinterpret New Zealand's founding document, which established the rights of both Māori and ...

Legal experts and Māori advocates say the fight to protect Te Tiriti is only just beginning - as the controversial Treaty Principles Bill is officially killed in Parliament.

New Zealand's Waitangi Tribunal will mark 50 years. It was formed to uphold the Treaty of Waitangi. The treaty guaranteed ...

The draft secondary school English curriculum is ringing alarm bells for some teachers. The document contains no reference to Te Mataiaho - the framework that underpins every other curriculum ...

Operation Grapple was a series of thermonuclear/hydrogen weapons tests conceived and conducted by the British government in ...