Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke of Te Pāti Māori stood and began a rhythmic Māori chant of challenge, which swelled to a roar as ...

New Zealand parliament erupts in dramatic political theater over controversial bill redefining Indigenous Maori rights.

A controversial proposed law redefining the country’s founding agreement between Indigenous Maori and the British Crown is ...

A vote in New Zealand’s parliament was suspended and two lawmakers ejected on Thursday when dramatic political theater ...

Māori lawmakers interrupted a New Zealand parliamentary vote with a Haka to protest a law that would erode the land and ...

New Zealand's Parliament was briefly suspended on Thursday after Maori members staged a haka to disrupt the vote on a ...

I think there is a reasonable chance that, on this matter, the National and NZ First parties will stick to what they have ... They are preparing the ground for later exploitation of that support for ...

Members of the King's Counsel, some of New Zealand's most senior legal minds ... of the Treaty as a whole and the mutual obligations and responsibilities of the parties". They say the principles now ...

Jamie Ensor is a political reporter in the NZ Herald press gallery team based at Parliament. He was previously a TV reporter and digital producer in the Newshub press gallery office.

The opposition parties will also support the bill. Lead Coordination Minister Erica Stanford said it would be just the first step in the government's response. Children's Minister Karen Chhour said ...