A bill aimed at ending long-standing rights from the indigenous population has fuelled this year’s heated events.

New Zealand marked Waitangi Day which laid the country bicultural foundation on Thursday to commemorate the 185th anniversary of the signing of the ...

The Spinoff presents a simplified transcript of the speeches at the treaty signings in Waitangi, Hokianga and Kaitāia.

The bill's architect, David Seymour, met with protests at Waitangi marae — a Māori meeting house — during speeches by ...

New Zealand commemorates its national day on Thursday, Waitangi Day, marking 185 years since the signing of its foundational ...

“The purpose of remembering isn't to sow division and disharmony but actually to bind us together as a nation that can openly ...

There are moments of grace and unity as Parliament completes the work of generations of Taranaki Māori, to admit the ...

For a band whose underlying mission was to address ideas about what this country could be, there could not have been a more apt name than Aotearoa, writes Nick Bollinger.

Each January political delegations make their way to the Rātana village near Whanganui to be formally welcomed by the membership of this uniquely Māori denomination. In 1918, the founder, Tahupotiki ...

A view of the Rugby Park ground from the grandstand at the 2009 pre-season Super Rugby game between the Hurricanes and the Chiefs ... between 1962 and 1967. Waka Nathan, known as the Black ...