The bill aimed to replace long-established principles created by courts and the parliament to guide the relationship between the crown and Maori tribes with a new set of rules.

Tens of thousands of people gathered outside Parliament in Wellington, New Zealand, on Tuesday, November 19, as part of a nine-day 'hikoi' protest advocating for the rights of indigenous Maori ...

Notably, no members of the Maori community were consulted for the proposed bill, which could have a reverberating impact on the 20 percent of New Zealand's population that identify as Maori.

New Zealand legislators have voted to enact record suspensions from Parliament for three lawmakers who performed a Māori haka to protest a proposed law.

Broken down by voting preferences, more than half of Labour's supporters (51.2 percent) backed leader Chris Hipkins' view the ...

Te Pāti Māori's extraordinary display of protest - interrupting the first vote on the Treaty Principles Bill - has highlighted the tension between Māori tikanga, or customs, and the rules of ...

A group of Indigenous Maori lawmakers could soon be banned from New Zealand’s parliament after staging a haka protest against a divisive race relations bill, drawing sharp condemnation and ...

Maori Party MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, ... Deputy prime minister Winston Peters described the trio as “out-of-control MPs who flout the rules and intimidate others with outrageous hakas”.

Indigenous Maori politicians have decried a push to temporarily suspend them from New Zealand's parliament, after disrupting the reading of a contentious race relations bill with a protest haka.