The Treaty Principles Bill was not the only measure Luxon agreed to that will scrutinize the Treaty’s influence on New ...

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

New Zealand's parliament on Thursday comprehensively rejected a bill aimed at reinterpreting the principles of the country’s founding agreement following months of protest and debate over the ...

The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political spectrum ... of the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi, considered New Zealand’s founding document for upholding Maori rights.

A controversial bill seeking to reinterpret New Zealand's founding document ... with most major political parties committed to voting it down. Members of the right-wing Act Party, which tabled ...

Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters is continuing to demand a police investigation of Doyle based on fascistic and totally ...

Why did the measures get so far? Despite its unpopularity, the proposed law passed its first vote due to a quirk of New Zealand’s political system that allows tiny parties to negotiate outsized ...

An MP refusing to back down. The end of a controversial bill. A Minister becoming an octogenarian. That’s just lately in New Zealand politics. This week The Treaty Principles Bill was voted down ...

Every party except Act is expected to vote down the controversial Treaty Principles ... Seymour called the current New Zealand climate a “bizarre binary cult”. He said Kiwis should not have ...

one in New Zealand and over a hundred in the US. Today’s protest in London comes as part of an international effort to boycott and pressure Tesla over its founder, Elon Musk’s, political controversies ...

New Zealand politicians broke out in song Thursday after striking down a right-wing-backed proposal that opponents feared would erode indigenous rights. Tens of thousands of people ...