A waka tangata at Waitangi on Waitangi Day this year. Photo / Michael Cunningham. In an era in which co-governance and the Treaty of Waitangi are growing in political significance, a new book on ...

New book allows the ‘many voices’ of the Treaty and of Maori/Pakeha relations to be heard more clearly The Treaty of Waitangi Companion: Maori and Pakeha from Tasman to Today , an essential ...

new book from award-winning historian Claudia Orange is set to advance New Zealanders’ understanding of their history. An Illustrated History of the Treaty of Waitangi is launched on Monday 1 ...

No rigid rule book When parliament established the Waitangi Tribunal in 1975, one of its jobs was to “provide for the observance, and confirmation, of the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi”.

The Treaty of Waitangi, signed in 1840, is New Zealand’s foundation document. ... In his book about the treaty’s place in New Zealand law and constitution, Mathew Palmer notes: ...

She has co-edited a book on Te Tiriti o Waitangi including essays featuring the principles and tikanga. Audrey Young is the New Zealand Herald’s senior political correspondent.

The Treaty of Waitangi, the influential historian Ruth Ross (1920-1982) remarked in 1972, is“a bloody difficult subject”. She should have known – sh. Tuesday, 02 January 2024 12:17 GMT.

The book examines the origins of the Treaty as a means of putting the expanding number of Europeans arriving in New Zealand up to 1840 under the rule of law while also guaranteeing the rights of Māori ...

On Feb. 6 1840, representatives of the British Crown and 500 Māori tribal leaders signed a treaty at Waitangi, in New Zealand's far north, agreeing to the terms of their relationship.

Members of Parliament celebrate as the Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi bill was rejected by Parliament in a 112 to 11 vote in Wellington, New Zealand, Thursday, April 10, 2025.

Reconstruction of the Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi by Marcus King, 1939. [Photo by Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga Flickr / CC BY 2.0] The Australian Labor government ...