April 10 (UPI) -- New Zealand's Parliament Thursday rejected a bill targeting Maori rights that sparked protests. The Treaty ...

The bill was proposed by the right-wing Act Party to define the principles of the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi, considered New Zealand’s founding document for upholding Maori rights. The treaty ...

New Zealand's parliament on Thursday comprehensively rejected a bill aimed at reinterpreting the principles of the country’s ...

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

We chose to live.” The bill was proposed by the right-wing Act Party to define the principles of the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi, considered New Zealand’s founding document for upholding Maori rights. The ...

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

A controversial bill that had set off New Zealand’s largest-ever Maori rights protest was heavily defeated in parliament on Thursday. The Treaty Principles Bill died in its second reading, being ...

Don Brash, the former leader of New Zealand’s centre-right party National, called the use of Maori “pointless”. Meanwhile, right-wing broadcaster Mike Hosking said that, “learning in ...

All parties except ACT voted against the bill, with its government partners National and NZ First joining with opposition parties Labour, the Greens and the Maori Party. "This is a grubby little ...