A coalition of Māori health experts and advocates is calling for the Waitangi Tribunal to urgently hear a complaint on the government's planned repeal of changes to smokefree legislation. The ...

The ACT Party fought to have a Treaty of Waitangi clause stripped out of amended education legislation - but was overruled.

New Zealand's parliament has handed record suspensions to three Indigenous Māori MPs after they performed a haka to protest a controversial bill last year. Māori Party co-leaders Rawiri Waititi ...

There was a rare moment of unity between Greens co-leader Marama Davidson and ACT leader David Seymour on the role of minor parties as policy innovators, but it was short-lived as the two went on ...

The Waitangi Tribunal is considering a claim filed by south Taranaki iwi Ngāti Ruanui concerning a Trans-Tasman Resources (TTR) shallow-seabed mining project approved under the Fast Track Approvals ...

Conservation Minister Tama Potaka and DoC are subject to court action after an iwi alleges the Crown breached Treaty of Waitangi obligations with its Ruapehu ski field deals. Photo / Mark Mitchell ...

A fire signalling Tai Rāwhiti hapū Ngāti Oneone's call for the return of their ancestral lands has been burning for over six ...

The Waitangi Tribunal has officially accepted Ngāti Ruanui’s claim challenging the fast‑tracking of seabed mining approvals ...

A landmark international treaty to protect the high seas is on the brink of receiving the 60 ratifications needed to become binding international law, according to French President Emmanuel Macron. In ...

But we are failing it,” he said. EU pledges €40 million to ‘bring the High Seas Treaty to life’ Ahead of UNOC, the EU and six of its member states announced their ratification of the treaty.

While many countries have agreed to take steps to protect the vast, ungoverned swathes of the world's oceans, they have yet to see their High Seas Treaty go into effect. This week's U.N. Oceans ...