New Zealand lawmakers dealt an overwhelming defeat Thursday to a controversial proposed law seeking to redefine the country’s ...

"Instead of dividing and conquering, this bill has backfired and united communities across the motu [country] in solidarity ...

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

At its second reading on April 10, only members of the right-wing ACT Party, which introduced the bill, voted in its favor.

The sweeping reinterpretation of the 1840 treaty signed by British representatives and 500 Maori chiefs during New Zealand’s colonisation was never expected to become law. But the measures ...

The sweeping reinterpretation of the 1840 treaty signed by British representatives and 500 Māori chiefs during New Zealand’s colonization was never expected to become law. But the measures ...

A controversial bill seeking to reinterpret New Zealand's founding document ... redress to Māori for the wrong done to them during colonisation. Act's proposed legislation had three main ...

The sweeping reinterpretation of the 1840 treaty signed by British representatives and 500 Māori chiefs during New Zealand's colonization was never expected to become law. But the measures ...

New Zealand lawmakers dealt an overwhelming defeat Thursday to a controversial proposed law seeking to redefine the country's founding treaty between Maori tribes and the British Crown.     The ...

New Zealand's Parliament overwhelmingly rejected the controversial Treaty Principles Bill, designed to redefine the Treaty of ...