In New Zealand, a hotly contested bill which would have rolled back Indigenous Māori rights has been defeated. The measure, ...

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

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.

April 10 (UPI) -- New Zealand's Parliament Thursday rejected a bill targeting Maori rights that sparked protests. The Treaty ...

Cheers and applause erupted before legislators and the public sang a waiata – a traditional Maori song – after the result was announced.

New Zealand politicians broke out in song Thursday after striking down a right wing-backed proposal that opponents feared ...

New Zealand's parliament on Thursday comprehensively rejected a bill aimed at reinterpreting the principles of the country’s ...

Willie said Christopher Luxon wanted to be Prime Minister at any cost so he agreed to Seymour’s legislation because Luxon ...

Ngāti Hāua signed a deed of settlement with the Crown at Ngāpūwaiwaha Marae in Taumarunui on Saturday, after eight years of negotiations over redress for historical breaches of the Treaty of Waitangi.

Roimata Smail’s booklet Understanding Tiriti lies squarely in this grand tradition with its sub-title, A handbook of basic facts about Te Tiriti o Waitangi. No need to look any further then because ...

We know that similar discussions of words for which there is no equivalent in Māori occurred at Waitangi. Salmond disparages Henry Williams, who translated the Treaty, but we have his letter to Bishop ...