Tens of thousands of people have marched on the New Zealand parliament in Wellington to protest against a bill that critics say strikes at the core of the country’s founding principles and dilutes the ...

As tens of thousands of marchers thronged the streets in New Zealand’s capital Wellington, the column of people, flags aloft, ...

Hotels are sold out in the capital Wellington - up to 30,000 people are expected to attend Tuesday’s rally outside parliament ...

A post on X claims that the first reading of a bill during a Parliamentary session in New Zealand was cancelled after Māori ...

Tens of thousands of New Zealanders gathered outside the parliament in one of the country’s largest demonstrations to oppose the Treaty Principles Bill, which critics say undermines Maori rights and ...

A proposed law that would redefine New Zealand’s founding treaty between the British Crown and Maori chiefs has triggered ...

Māori lawmakers interrupted a New Zealand parliamentary vote with a Haka to protest a law that would erode the land and ...

This month, Act introduced the bill, which experts say could severely damage race relations and undo decades of work aimed at redressing historical wrongs against the Māori people by colonizers.

According to NBC, a haka is a Maori dance that ... was signed by Māori chiefs and the British monarchy and focused on rectifying wrongs done to the indigenous people when the country was colonized.

Critics of the proposed bill say it will erode land and cultural rights, health care initiatives and cultural preservation efforts granted to the Māori people under the Treaty of Waitangi.