"Do not negate 184 years of debate": Bill rolling back Māori rights in New Zealand faces backlash
Protests erupted inside and outside of New Zealand’s parliament this week as the country’s far-right ACT New Zealand Party ...
Treaty Principles Bill: Senior lawyers call for David Seymour’s Treaty Bill to be abandoned
Members of the King’s Counsel, some of New Zealand’s most senior legal minds, say the Treaty Principles Bill “seeks to ...
devdiscourse1d
Treaty Principles Bill Passes First Reading, Promises Debate on Foundational Document
Associate Justice Minister David Seymour has announced that the Treaty Principles Bill has passed its first reading in ...
Newsroom8d
Treaty Principles Bill: Seymour’s first step in normalising idea
As the controversial bill seems dead in the water, a patient David Seymour thinks people will warm to it the more they see it ...
NZ’s Treaty Principles Bill is already straining social cohesion – a referendum could be worse
Timed to coincide with the first reading of the contentious Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill yesterday — it passed ...
Māori lawmakers in New Zealand interrupt vote on controversial bill with Haka
Māori lawmakers interrupted a New Zealand parliamentary vote with a Haka to protest a law that would erode the land and ...
Global Voices Online41m
Protests erupt in New Zealand over Treaty Principles Bill
But Associate Justice Minister David Seymour, principal author of the bill ... In a Facebook post, he summed up the intent of the bill: The Treaty Principles Bill says 1) the Crown has the right to ...
Treaty Principles Bill: National spooked as Te Pāti Māori’s parliament haka delivers more grist to Act’s David Seymour - Claire Trevett
Act’s Treaty Principles Bill passed its first reading in Parliament on Thursday with support from National, Act and NZ First.
Waatea8d
Seymour unveils Treaty Principles Bill
This afternoon, Associate Justice Minister David Seymour released his Treaty Principles Bill. This afternoon, Associate ...
Treaty Principles Bill hīkoi organiser rejects David Seymour's offer to meet
The ACT leader is open to meeting with organisers of the protest, but they say they are not at his "beck and call".
David Seymour defends timing of Treaty Principles Bill debate
Act Party Leader and Minister responsible for the bill David Seymour denies the Treaty Principles Bill has been brought ...
Watch: New Zealand's youngest MP stirs Parliament with Māori 'haka' call, tears up controversial bill
New Zealand's parliament witnessed dramatic scenes as a controversial bill proposing to redefine the country's founding ...