The ACT leader remains defiant after his controversial bill passed its first reading, as a protest leaves Rotorua .

“What all of these principles have in common is that they afford Māori different rights from other New Zealanders,” David ...

A vote in New Zealand’s parliament was suspended and two lawmakers ejected Thursday amid debate over a controversial proposed ...

Act’s Treaty Principles Bill passed its first reading in Parliament on Thursday with support from National, Act and NZ First.

Labour's Māori Development spokesperson was the first to be ejected from the House after calling David Seymour a "liar" - breaking Parliament's rules.

The Speaker temporarily suspended the House, and when it reconvened half an hour later, he charged Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clark ...

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

Chris Finlayson says that David Seymour has to realise that the Treaty Principles Bill's reading was never going to a civil ...

Newsroom political editor Laura Walters and co-editor Tim Murphy, co-piloting the panel with both Marc Daalder and Sam ...

A controversial proposed law redefining the country’s founding agreement between Indigenous Maori and the British Crown is unlikely to become law.