Māori
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New Zealand attorney general warns her government’s electoral reform could breach human rights law
Judith Collins also said the controversial electoral law reform could disenfranchise MāoriNew Zealand’s prime …
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New Zealand MPs who performed haka in parliament given record suspensions
Parliament votes to enact punishment after hours of fraught debate including attitudes towards Māori cultureNe…
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New Zealand MPs who performed haka in parliament given unprecedented punishment
Te Pāti Māori co-leaders and youngest member to be temporarily suspended from parliament after performance pro…
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New Zealand MPs who performed haka in parliament given unprecedented punishment
Te Pāti Māori co-leaders and youngest member to be temporarily suspended from parliament after performance pro…
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Fifty years on, New Zealand’s tribunal upholding Māori rights faces a turning point
The Waitangi Tribunal has had a significant impact on Indigenous rights and policy but as it marks its 50th an…
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New Zealand’s divisive treaty principles bill has been defeated – but the fight against populism isn’t over | Chris Finlayson
The damage caused by the treaty bill to Māori relations will take time to repair and debate over the issue may…
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‘Grubby’ treaty principles bill voted down in New Zealand parliament
Bill which sought to radically reinterpret New Zealand’s founding treaty between Māori tribes and the British …
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New Zealand’s controversial bill to reinterpret treaty with Māori should be scrapped, committee finds
Justice committee said the majority of public submissions oppose the legislation, which seeks to reinterpret t…
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Row erupts in New Zealand parliament over use of Māori name Aotearoa
Dispute emerges after deputy prime minister Winston Peters questioned why MPs used the name Aotearoa in debate…
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Remains of carved canoe may be most significant discovery of its kind, NZ archaeologist says
More than 450 artefacts from a waka found in pieces in the Chatham Islands expected to reveal new insights abo…
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‘Our people were so innovative’: Māori art celebrated in landmark book
Toi Te Mana: An Indigenous history of Māori art showcases creative work across a diverse range of mediumsA new…
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‘It’s about togetherness’: Waitangi Day captures a new audience
A groundswell of resistance against the government’s Māori policies is driving many to make the trip to the Wa…
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Māori protesters turn their backs on government ministers at Waitangi Day event
Anger at policies that roll back Māori rights surface as rightwing Act party leader David Seymour has micropho…
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Bill to reinterpret founding treaty with Māori would make New Zealand a ‘laughing stock’, MPs told
Introduced to parliament by a minor coalition party, the treaty principles bill seeks to abandon a set of prin…
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Waitangi Day: record crowds expected amid tensions over Māori policy in New Zealand
Event in February that commemorates signing of New Zealand’s founding document expected to draw tens of thousa…