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

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

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

The list of Treaty-related policies on the coalition agenda is as long as its arm, even without the Treaty Principles Bill, ...

New Zealand lawmakers have dealt an overwhelming defeat to a controversial proposed law seeking to redefine the country’s ...

The Treaty Principles Bill, proposed by the Act Party, faced defeat in Parliament. Only Act MPs supported it. National and ...

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

The demise of the Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill was a very rare beast in Parliament - a government bill that was ...

At its second reading on April 10, only members of the right-wing ACT Party, which introduced the bill, voted in its favor.

A controversial bill that had set off New Zealand’s largest-ever Maori rights protest was heavily defeated in parliament on ...

New Zealand's Parliament overwhelmingly rejected the controversial Treaty Principles Bill, designed to redefine the Treaty of ...

New Zealand's parliament has voted down the Treaty Principles Bill, ending one of the most divisive debates in recent Kiwi ...