Disability advocates are appalled there is no close captioning or New Zealand Sign language interpreters for live oral submissions on the Treaty Principles Bill. Submissions on the bill are being ...

The Treaty Principles Bill, introduced by Act Paty Leader David Seymour has ignited a firestorm of debate and opposition across New Zealand.

The Bill aims to replace the existing Treaty principles - developed over time by courts and the Waitangi Tribunal to interpret the Treaty in law - with three new ones determined by the Government. In ...

“This bill and this period and this submission process and everything that’s contained in this bill will go down as a black mark in our history.” Treaty Principles Bill: Groups argue for and against .

Disability advocates are appalled there is no close captioning or New Zealand Sign language interpreters for live oral submissions on the Treaty Principles Bill. Submissions on the bill are being ...

Accountability Now welcomes the opportunity to make this submission ... of the Constitution in its scrutiny of the IDAC Bill, which it should reject out of hand by the proper application of the ...

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 ...

Some say an oral promise of religious protection read out at Waitangi in 1840 amounts to a fourth article of the Treaty. But ...

The poll was conducted from December 16 to 21, following the introduction of David Seymour’s controversial Treaty Principles Bill and the thousands-strong hīkoi protest to Parliament opposing ...