Tag: Te Tiriti o Waitangi
Te Tiriti: The history and implications of the Treaty Principles Bill
By Te Aniwaniwa Paterson of Te Ao Māori News
Activist/educator Tina Ngata (Ngati Porou) has warned proposed changes to Aotearoa New Zealand's Treaty of Waitangi...
Protest photographer John Miller records Hīkoi mō te Tiriti with his...
RNZ News
For almost six decades photographer John Miller (Ngāpuhi) has been a protest photographer in Aotearoa New Zealand.
From his first photographs of an anti-Vietnam...
NZ’s leading newspaper defends young MP’s Parliament ‘shining light’ haka
Pacific Media Watch
New Zealand’s leading daily newspaper has joined the debate about the haka that stunned Parliament and the nation last week, defending the...
Why NZ is protesting over colonial-era treaty bill – a global...
An overview for our international readers of Asia Pacific Report.
BACKGROUNDER: By Sarah Shamim
A fight for Māori indigenous rights drew more than 50,000 protesters to...
Bill would ‘render the treaty worthless’ – world reacts to national...
RNZ News
International media coverage of Aotearoa New Zealand's national Hīkoi to Parliament has largely focused on the historic size of the turnout in Wellington...
Hīkoi day 8: Te Pāti Māori co-leader speaks of ‘sense of...
RNZ News
ACT leader David Seymour has spoken out on Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke's haka in Parliament as a Hīkoi against his controversial Treaty Principles Bill converges...
Hīkoi day 7: Significant disruption expected when thousands converge on capital
RNZ News
New Zealand's hīkoi against the Treaty Principles Bill could be one of the largest rallies that the capital has seen for years, Wellington...
NZ’s Treaty Principles Bill ‘inviting civil war’, says former PM Shipley
RNZ News
A former New Zealand prime minister, Dame Jenny Shipley, has warned the ACT Party is "inviting civil war" with its attempt to define...
NZ’s Treaty Principles Bill is already straining social cohesion – a...
ANALYSIS: By Alexander Gillespie, University of Waikato and Claire Breen, University of Waikato
With the protest hīkoi from the Far North moving through Rotorua on...
Hīkoi day four: Setting off from Huntly on way to Wellington...
RNZ News
Thousands of people are continuing their North Island hīkoi as the legislation they are protesting against, the Treaty Principles Bill, gets its first...
Senior NZ lawyers call for Treaty Principles Bill to be abandoned
By Lillian Hanly, RNZ political reporter
Members of the King's Counsel, some of New Zealand's most senior legal minds, say the controversial Treaty Principles Bill...
Hīkoi mō te Tiriti sets off from Whangārei on day two
RNZ News
Emotions are running high as the Hīkoi mō te Tiriti has been welcomed to Laurie Hill Park in Whangārei by mana whenua.
Thousands have...
Hīkoi mō te Tiriti day one: ‘Lets make this hīkoi build...
RNZ News
From the misty peaks of Cape Reinga to the rain-soaked streets of Kawakawa, Aotearoa New Zealand's national hīkoi mō Te Tiriti rolled through...
NZ Herald’s disclosure obligation to readers: Why are we waiting?
COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis
The New Zealand Herald and its publisher are failing to follow a golden rule: Engage with readers when they question your...
Rob Campbell: Unrest in New Caledonia – as seen through moana...
COMMENTARY: By Rob Campbell
Is it just me or is it not more than a little odd that coverage of current events in New Caledonia/Kanaky...
‘Repair colonial violence’ and support Gaza ceasefire, say Otago academics
Asia Pacific Report
Following an open letter by Auckland University academics speaking out in support of their students' right to protest against the genocidal Israeli...
Chlöe Swarbrick to replace NZ’s outgoing Green Party co-leader James Shaw
RNZ News
Outspoken MP Chlöe Swarbrick will be the Green Party's new co-leader alongside Marama Davidson, as climate change specialist James Shaw steps down.
Last month,...
Waitangi Day 2024: Thousands of visitors, one clear message – ‘Toitū...
By Pokere Paewai , RNZ News Māori issues reporter, and Shannon Haunui-Thompson, Te Manu Korihi editor
Before the sun rose and the birds started singing...
Waitangi Day 2024: Dawn service turns to unity, love and togetherness
RNZ News
Thousands of people gathered before dawn in the Bay of Islands today to commemorate Aotearoa New Zealand's Treaty of Waitangi amid heightened tensions...
Waitangi Day 2024: NZ government denies it’s ‘delegitimising’ Māori
RNZ News
Aotearoa New Zealand coalition government leaders have rejected allegations they are degrading tino rangatiratanga, saying the proposed Treaty Principles Bill will not "delegitimise"...
Waitangi: Luxon faces questions after day of speeches at Treaty Grounds
RNZ News
The crowd booed a combative Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters and drowned out Associate Treaty Minister David Seymour, while Prime Minister Christopher Luxon...
Waitangi Day 2024: 5 myths and misconceptions that confuse NZ’s 1840...
ANALYSIS: By Paul Moon, Auckland University of Technology
When it comes to grappling with the Treaty of Waitangi/Te Tiriti o Waitangi, one of the commonest...