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New Zealand Axes Controversial Treaty Bill Aimed at Indigenous Rights - TaiwanPlus News
New Zealand's Parliament voted down a bill that sought to redefine the role of its founding treaty agreement, signed between the Indigenous Māori people and the British Crown. The controversial ...
New Zealand rejects proposed law to redefine treaty principles bill
Cheers and applause erupted before legislators and the public sang a waiata – a traditional Maori song – after the result was ...
New Zealand lawmakers reject proposed law to redefine the country's founding Treaty of Waitangi
New Zealand lawmakers have dealt an overwhelming defeat to a controversial proposed law seeking to redefine the country's ...
New Zealand politicians sing as bill that sparked massive protests is ‘annihilated’
New Zealand politicians broke out in song Thursday after striking down a right wing-backed proposal that opponents feared ...
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Jamie Ensor: Does the Treaty Principles Bill have a future?
There's plenty of lingering questions about the future of the Treaty ... Bill. More than 300,000 written submissions were made to Parliament's Justice Committee - 90 percent of which opposed the ...
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Parliament's Justice Committee recommends scrapping controversial Treaty Principles Bill amidst public opposition
New Zealand's Justice Committee recommends scrapping the Treaty Principles Bill after receiving nearly 300,000 submissions, mostly opposing it. Critics argue it misinterprets the treaty, posing risks ...
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Nurses’ Union Backs Call To Scrap Anti-Treaty Bill
"The people have spoken, and it is a big fat no to that bill," says New Zealand Nurses Organisation ... its report into the Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill and has recommended it does ...
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Justice Select committee calls for Treaty Principles Bill to be scrapped
Parliament's Justice Committee has released its report into the Treaty Principles ... policy was to take the bill to a referendum, but the compromise it reached with National was to take it to select ...
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Watch: ‘Alarming concerns’ - Seymour defends Treaty bill amid overwhelming opposition
National and New Zealand First supported it at first reading in line with coalition commitments, but won’t back it past select committee. The Treaty Principles Bill seeks to clarify the ...
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Minister celebrates defeat of Treaty Principles Bill, another urges Māori to accept ‘trade offs’ of economic development
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon, Māori-Crown Relations Minister Tama Potaka, NZ First Leader Winston ... defeat of Act’s controversial Treaty Principles Bill after a parliamentary committee ...
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Select committee recommends scrapping Treaty principles bill amid huge opposition
The bill, introduced by Act as part of the coalition agreement with National and New Zealand First, seeks to define three principles of the Treaty of Waitangi in legislation: civil government ...
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Treaty Principles Bill: Justice select committee reports back with public submissions overwhelmingly opposed
David Seymour speaks to media about the Justice select committee's report to the House on the Treaty Principles Bill The overwhelming ... National and New Zealand First supported it at first ...