Opposition lawmakers performed the traditional dance during a reading of a bill that would redefine the country’s founding treaty with its Indigenous people.

New Zealand parliament erupts in dramatic political theater over controversial bill redefining Indigenous Maori rights.

New Zealand's parliament was brought to a temporary halt by MPs performing a haka, amid anger over a controversial bill ...

Under the principles laid out in the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi, tribes were promised broad rights to retain their lands and ...

Work has involved billion-dollar land settlements, embrace of the Māori language, guaranteed representation in central and ...

The Te Pāti Māori MPs began a haka during a vote for the legislation that would reinterpret a 184-year-old treaty between the ...

New Zealand’s parliament descended into chaos as Maori members staged a haka in protest against a bill that would ...

Thousands marched in New Zealand on Friday, protesting a controversial bill that seeks to reinterpret the Treaty of Waitangi.

Waitangi Tribunal Judge Damian Stone has given the Government 48 hours to release eight documents showing why and how it ...

Thousands of people joined a march towards New Zealand's national capital on Friday after a contentious bill that would reinterpret the country's 184-year-old founding document passed its first hurdle ...

New Zealand's parliament was suspended and two lawmakers were ejected during a vote on a controversial proposed law ...