Act Party leader David Seymour, the architect of the bill, believes his controversial Treaty Principles Bill, or a bill ...

A mountain in New Zealand considered an ancestor by Indigenous people was recognized as a legal person on Thursday after a new law granted it all the rights and responsibilities of a human being.

New Zealand’s parliament was briefly suspended on Thursday ... still guides legislation and policy today. Rulings by the courts and a separate Maori tribunal have progressively expanded Maori ...

New Zealand ... that no law or court had actually settled for good a definition of the treaty’s principles, and that had caused division. His bill filled “a silence this parliament has ...