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

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 ...

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 ... 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 ...

New Zealand's parliament has ... the rush to put the bill through the house had made the law worse than doing nothing. Jacinda Ardern said parliament was "almost entirely united".