New Zealand is deeply divided over the Treaty Principles Bill, which seeks to reinterpret the de facto constitution. Now the ...

The treaty, signed in 1840 by over 500 Maori chiefs and the British Crown, is seen as the cornerstone of Maori rights legislation in New Zealand. The letter, drafted by the National Iwi Chairs ...

Yesterday's session of the Justice select committee was marked by intense debates as it heard submissions on the ...

Under Labour the Māori economy went from strength to strength according to the latest report released by MBIE.

But Thursday’s anniversary of New Zealand’s founding document, the Treaty of Waitangi, passed in muted fashion with Prime Minister Christopher Luxon absent from the main commemorations ...

As the sun rose on the dawn service at Waitangi where the Treaty of Waitangi was first signed between the British Crown and Maori chiefs in 1840, some community leaders called on the government to ...

Hundreds of New Zealanders lined up last week to give their oral submissions as the Justice Select Committee hearing for the ...

In 1840, Maori tribes and representatives of the British crown signed the Treaty of Waitangi -- New Zealand's founding document -- in which the Crown promised Maori would retain rights to their ...

Having stunned Penrith by returning to New Zealand, James Fisher-Harris says representing the Maori All Stars trumps the World Club Challenge or a trip to Las Vegas.

Maori women have led a protest on the eve of the country's national day, as New Zealand's would-be constitutional revisionist David Seymour delivered an incendiary address at the Waitangi Treaty ...