The Treaty of Waitangi, considered New Zealand’s founding document, takes its name from the Bay of Islands location.

A haka by Te Pāti Māori MPs interrupted the first reading of the contentious Treaty Principles Bill today, causing Parliament ...

The Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill will likely die after it goes to select committee – or will it? A possible ...

The Treaty Principles Bills will face its first vote on Thursday afternoon in what is expected to be a heated session in Parliament. Opposition politicians will first grill members of the Government, ...

Nearly ten thousand people took to the streets in New Zealand to protest the introduction of the controversial Treaty ...

Members of the King's Counsel say the coalition's Treaty Principles Bill "seeks to rewrite the Treaty itself" and would have ...

With the three governing parties committed to supporting it ... The principles in the draft legislation – officially the “Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill” – include that the Government has ...

Members of the King’s Counsel, some of New Zealand’s most senior legal minds, say the controversial Treaty Principles Bill ...

The Treaty Principles Bill will face its first vote on Thursday afternoon in what is expected to be a heated session in ...

A boy celebrates Waitangi Day which marks the signing ... The bill proposes three principles for the treaty. Loading The first is that the government and parliament have full power to make laws ...

In 1975, the Waitangi Tribunal was established to hear claims brought by Māori on whether legislation, policies or actions by the Crown breached the treaty principles. A prominent victory was a ...

Thousands of people have joined a nine-day march to New Zealand’s capital, Wellington, to protest a contentious bill that ...