David Seymour’s Treaty Principles Bill has drawn a record response, with 470,000 submissions from the New Zealand public. Clearly this reflects a massive public interest in the bill and the ...

Why is the office for Treaty Principles Bill submissions now able to cherry-pick only 80 hours of oral submissions for this bill that has rendered hundreds of thousands of submissions? Apart from ...

Taranaki Māori representatives and their allies have delivered a stinging attack on regional councillors who shut-down debate on the contentious Treaty Principles Bill. They said the councillors ...

“We therefore express our opposition to the proposed Treaty Principles Bill.” The letter pointed to the lack of recognition of the collective rights of iwi Maori and argued it undermines ...

In just a few months, David Seymour’s Treaty Principles Bill will be snuffed out, but the debate is likely to reignite. Both supporters and opponents of the Treaty Principles Bill say – like it or not ...

Concern about the bill is so high that a national forum representing several iwi (Māori tribes) recently wrote a letter to King ... about enshrining the Treaty principles in law was needed ...

Watch: The BBC explains New Zealand's Māori bill protests This year's anniversary comes amid ongoing scrutiny of the Treaty Principles Bill ... recently wrote a letter to King Charles - New ...

David Seymour's hapū, Ngāti Rēhia, has formally requested he not attend Waitangi commemorations in Northland, due to his ongoing support of the Treaty Principles Bill. In a letter sent to the ACT ...

David Seymour's hapū, Ngāti Rēhia, has formally requested he not attend Waitangi commemorations in Northland, due to his ongoing support of the Treaty Principles Bill. In a letter sent to the ACT ...

Any statute such as this bill will fossilise that understanding, restricting its ongoing organic development. It would be better if the bill did not proceed. The Court of Appeal stated a set of treaty ...