The kaupapa had a central theme of “Hawaiki hou”, a sort of aspirational future place, asking, “What do we want Aotearoa to look like, and how can we get there socially, politically, environmentally, ...

New Zealand's national holiday is traditionally a chance to reflect on the past, but this Waitangi Day has been overshadowed ... while audience members wearing symbols of Maori sovereignty turned ...

Thousands of people have attended events in Waitangi in northern New Zealand, to celebrate the country's national day amid a debate over the future of its founding document. Waitangi Day marks the ...

Prayers as dawn awakened for Waitangi Day...known as New Zealand's national day, which drew the biggest crowd in three decades. It was an early start at the ...