New Zealand politicians broke out in song Thursday after striking down a right wing-backed proposal that opponents feared ...

Cheers and applause erupted before legislators and the public sang a waiata – a traditional Maori song – after the result was ...

The Treaty Principles Bill passed its first reading in November, with support from National - the dominant party in New Zealand's ruling coalition - who had promised to back it as part of a ...

A bill that sought to redefine the Treaty of Waitangi, New Zealand's founding document, and take that new definition to a referendum has been voted down in the country's parliament. The bill ...

In them, National and NZ First agree to support a Treaty Principles Bill based on existing Act policy to the select committee stage, but no further. A 189-page Waitangi Tribunal report describes ...

New Zealand politicians broke out in ... had already taken to the streets to oppose the bill, which sought to redefine the terms of a treaty that British colonialists signed with the indigenous ...

New Zealand legislators dealt an overwhelming defeat to a controversial proposed law seeking to redefine the country’s founding treaty between Maori tribes and the British Crown. The Principles ...