カテゴリー: Māori
Judith Collins also said the controversial electoral law reform could disenfranchise MāoriNew Zealand’s prime minister Christopher Luxon has defended his government’s plans to overhaul its electoral laws, despite warnings from his own attorney general …
Parliament votes to enact punishment after hours of fraught debate including attitudes towards Māori cultureNew Zealand legislators have voted to enact record parliamentary suspensions for three MPs who performed a Māori haka to protest against a contr…
Te Pāti Māori co-leaders and youngest member to be temporarily suspended from parliament after performance protesting controversial billThree New Zealand MPs who performed a haka in parliament will be temporarily suspended, in what is believed to be th…
Te Pāti Māori co-leaders and youngest member to be temporarily suspended from parliament after performance protesting controversial billThree New Zealand MPs who performed a haka in parliament will be temporarily suspended, in what is believed to be th…
The Waitangi Tribunal has had a significant impact on Indigenous rights and policy but as it marks its 50th anniversary its role is being questionedIn the 1980s, New Zealand’s department of Māori affairs set aside money for language groups to spend on …
The damage caused by the treaty bill to Māori relations will take time to repair and debate over the issue may spill into next year’s election campaignThe New Zealand parliament this week voted down the treaty principles bill – legislation that has cau…
Bill which sought to radically reinterpret New Zealand’s founding treaty between Māori tribes and the British Crown fails by 11 votes to 112It was the bill that launched 300,000 public submissions, sparked New Zealand’s largest ever protest on Māori ri…
Justice committee said the majority of public submissions oppose the legislation, which seeks to reinterpret the country’s founding document A parliamentary committee has recommended a bill that seeks to radically reinterpret New Zealand’s founding tre…
Dispute emerges after deputy prime minister Winston Peters questioned why MPs used the name Aotearoa in debatesThe speaker of New Zealand’s parliament has told lawmakers to stop complaining about the use of the Māori name for the country, after the dep…
More than 450 artefacts from a waka found in pieces in the Chatham Islands expected to reveal new insights about Polynesian voyagingParts of a carved and decorated traditional ocean-going canoe (waka) found in the Chatham Islands, around 800km east of …
Toi Te Mana: An Indigenous history of Māori art showcases creative work across a diverse range of mediumsA new landmark book celebrating Māori art has clocked up a couple of impressive firsts: not only is it the most comprehensive account of creative w…
A groundswell of resistance against the government’s Māori policies is driving many to make the trip to the Waitangi treaty grounds in New Zealand’s far north for the first timeTwenty-year-old Keshaan Te Waaka stands – for the first time – on the narro…
Anger at policies that roll back Māori rights surface as rightwing Act party leader David Seymour has microphone removed twice and protesters stage walkoutIf New Zealand’s coalition government had prepared for political fireworks from Indigenous leader…
Introduced to parliament by a minor coalition party, the treaty principles bill seeks to abandon a set of principles that guide the relationship between Māori and ruling authoritiesA marathon public hearing into a bill that seeks to radically reinterpr…
Event in February that commemorates signing of New Zealand’s founding document expected to draw tens of thousands but PM will not attendOrganisers of New Zealand’s national day commemorating the signing of the country’s founding treaty between Māori tr…