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

A controversial bill seeking to reinterpret New Zealand's founding document, which established the rights of both Māori and ...

A controversial bill that had set off New Zealand ’s largest-ever Maori rights protest was heavily defeated in parliament on ...

But the Nationals and the other party in the coalition, New Zealand First, never agreed to support the bill beyond the select committee stage. Luxon had tried to publicly distance himself and his ...

Popular opposition to the far-right ACT Party’s bill was channelled into a campaign promoting national “unity” and denying ...

New Zealand lawmakers have dealt an overwhelming defeat to a controversial proposed law seeking to redefine the country’s founding treaty between Māori tribes and the British Crown.

A controversial bill that had set off New Zealand’s largest-ever Maori rights protest was heavily defeated in parliament on Thursday. The Treaty Principles Bill died in its second reading, being voted ...

A controversial bill that had set off New Zealand’s largest-ever Maori rights protest was heavily defeated in parliament on Thursday. The Treaty Principles Bill died in its second reading ...