While Māori business success is worth celebrating, the Crown’s quiet offloading of Treaty obligations onto non-Māori citizens is tilting the market—and it’s time we talked about it. ------------------ ...

When you visit New Zealand, you’ll likely be greeted with “Kia ora,” a Māori-language welcome widely adopted by the country’s ...

Pita Tipene, chair of the Waitangi National Trust is stepping down.

A wave of new ratifications during the U.N. Ocean Conference in France has brought the High Seas Treaty closer to the ...

New Zealand legislators have voted to enact record suspensions from Parliament for three lawmakers who performed a Māori haka to protest a proposed law ...

The three lawmakers, whose record suspensions last up to three weeks, drew global attention last year when they performed the ...

The harsh penalty was handed down to three members of the opposition who said they were voicing their community’s displeasure with proposed legislation.

New Zealand's Parliament overwhelmingly rejected the controversial Treaty Principles Bill, designed to redefine the Treaty of Waitangi, with a vote of 112 to 11. The bill sparked significant ...

But its defeat did not spell the end for scrutiny of Māori rights in New Zealand law. What is the Treaty of Waitangi? The Treaty guides the relationship between the government and Māori ...