Justice Committee begins hearing submissions on Treaty Principles Bill as Parliament returns
Act Party leader David Seymour, the architect of the bill, believes his controversial Treaty Principles Bill, or a bill ...
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New Zealand MPs disrupt parliament with haka to protest Indigenous treaty 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 New Zealand mountain is granted personhood, recognizing it as sacred for Māori
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.
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Watch: New Zealand MPs perform haka in parliament to disrupt Maori rights debate
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 ...
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New Zealand lawmakers perform Haka in parliament to protest controversial law
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. New Zealand’s parliament was suspended and two lawmakers were ejected during a vote on a controversial ...
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The settler colonies: New Zealand
Parliament passed the New Zealand Constitution Act in 1852. It set up government at the colonial and provincial level by a governor, executive council and a two chamber general assembly, with a ...