Former Speaker of the House, Sir Lockwood Smith told Mike Hosking that this is “as bad as he's ever seen the House”. He said ...

Waikato Regional Council’s five-month coastal water monitoring programme is underway. From November to March every year, the ...

New Zealand parliament erupts in dramatic political theater over controversial bill redefining Indigenous Maori rights.

These are the political winners and losers from a bombastic day in the House yesterday: Labour: loser. Willie Jackson did his ...

Te Pāti Māori co-leader Rawiri Waititi says he’s proud of yesterday’s commotion during the Treaty Principles Bill debates and ...

Thousands march across New Zealand in protest against the Treaty Principles Bill, with a historic hikoi heading to the capital. The bill, criticized by Indigenous Maori and their supporters, aims to ...

Thousands of people joined a march towards New Zealand's national capital on Friday after a contentious bill that would reinterpret the country's 184-year-old founding document passed its first hurdle ...

Former MPs sometimes feel they can chip in and tell current ones what to do, the Treaty Negotiations Minister says.

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

New Zealand’s parliament was disrupted by a haka on Nov. 14, during the reading of a controversial bill that proposes to ...

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

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