The Treaty Principles Bill’s promise of ‘equal rights’ ignores the blind spots of our democracy
For as long as we’ve had democracies, majority rule has left some in the minority worse off. We need to be talking about what ...
Protests and a New Zealand leader’s absence overshadow a day marking the founding treaty with Māori
The bill’s architect, David Seymour, met with protests at Waitangi marae — a Māori meeting house — during speeches by ...
The New Zealand Herald6d
Treaty Principles: Most New Zealanders believe respectful Treaty, race relations debate important
Hīkoi participants march in Hamilton on day four of a journey to Wellington to protest various issues impacting Māori including the Act Party’s Treaty Principles Bill. Photo / Mike Scott A new ...
A New Zealand mountain is granted personhood, recognizing it as sacred for Maori
Taranaki Maunga — considered an ancestor by Indigenous people has been recognized as a legal person under a new law.
Scoop6d
No Captions Or Interpreters Cut Deaf People Out Of Live Treaty Principles Submission Hearings
Disability advocates are appalled there is no close captioning or New Zealand Sign language interpreters for live oral submissions on the Treaty Principles Bill ... of te reo Māori by the ...
Voice of America5d
New Zealand mountain is granted personhood, recognizing it as sacred for Maori
In 1840, Maori tribes and representatives of the British crown signed the Treaty of Waitangi — New ... a co-leader of the political party Te Pati Maori and a descendant of the Taranaki tribes ...
Newstalk ZB6d
New poll shows most New Zealanders believe respectful treaty, race relations debate important
Act leader David Seymour, the architect of the Treaty Principles Bill. Photo / Michael Craig Almost three-quarters said harmonious race relations through honouring Te Tiriti o Waitangi/ the Treaty ...
Los Angeles Times6d
A New Zealand mountain is granted personhood, recognizing it as sacred for Maori
Under the principles laid out in the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi ... a co-leader of the political party Te Pati Maori and a descendant of the Taranaki tribes, using a phrase that means ancestral ...
The Taipei Times6d
New Zealand mountain granted personhood
“The mountain has long been an honored ancestor, a source of physical, cultural and spiritual sustenance and a final resting place,” Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations ... a coleader of the ...