Tag: Treaty of Waitangi

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...

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...

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...

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...

By Lillian Hanly, RNZ News political reporter, Craig McCulloch, RNZ deputy political editor, and Te Manu Korihi Te Pāti Māori's extraordinary display of protest --...

RNZ News An estimated 10,000 people have marched through Rotorua today as part of Hīkoi mō te Tiriti protesting against the controversial Treaty Principles Bill. Due...

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...

Pacific Media Watch As thousands take to the streets this week to "honour" the country's 1840 Treaty of Waitangi, the largest daily newspaper New Zealand...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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"...

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...

ANALYSIS: By Dominic O'Sullivan, Charles Sturt University The ACT Party’s election promise of a referendum for Aotearoa New Zealand to redefine and enshrine the “principles”...

RNZ News New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has been warned that Māori will not sit by without a fight if the government attempts to...

RNZ News New Zealand's opposition parties have seized on a leaked ministerial memo about the coalition government's proposed Treaty Principles bill, saying the prime minister...

RNZ Pacific Waikato Tainui estimate at least 10,000 people have been welcomed onto Tūrangawaewae marae to participate in an Aotearoa New Zealand national hui called...

ANALYSIS: By Annie Te One, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington In his maiden speech to Parliament in 2020, Te Pāti Māori co-leader...

ANALYSIS: By Maree Mahony, RNZ digital journalist Labour leader Chris Hipkins and National leader Christopher Luxon have faced off in a fast-paced but unspectacular debate...