Two Indian-origin MPs in New Zealand have introduced members' bills on key social issues. While the bill by Priyanca ...

Te Pāti Māori is likely to find out if three of its MPs will face punishments for performing a haka in the House, in the same ...

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

New Zealand politicians broke ... a ceremonial Māori dance – in parliament. As the bill was voted down by 112 votes to 11 on Thursday, after an occasionally heated session, politicians from both sides ...

As the deadline approaches for Te Pāti Māori MPs to appear before the Privileges Committee, the place of tikanga in our ...

The Treaty Principles Bill, proposed by the Act Party, faced defeat in Parliament. Only Act MPs supported it. National and ...

New Zealand's Treaty Principles Bill has been voted down in the country's parliament, killing off the controversial piece of proposed legislation.

New Zealand's populist party has introduced a bill to parliament to define women and men by their biology, preventing trans ...

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Minority coalition partner New Zealand First introduced a bill to parliament on Tuesday that if enacted would define women and men by their biology, preventing trans women and men being recognised by ...

A bill which sought to “reinterpret” New Zealand’s Treaty of Waitangi, signed between Māori tribal leaders and the British Crown in 1840, has failed in parliament by 11 votes to 112.

New Zealand ... dance – in parliament. As the bill was voted down by 112 votes to 11 on Thursday, after an occasionally heated session, politicians from both sides of the house sang a Māori ...