There is a legal principle of “misunderstanding”. If two parties completely misunderstand each other, then there is no “meeting of the minds” ( consensus ad idem ), which is essential for a valid ...

An umbrella group comprising at least 80 Maori tribes has sent an open letter to King Charles III demanding that he intervene in New Zealand politics and ensure the government honours its ...

This year’s Waitangi Day celebrations in Aotearoa/New Zealand were ... reports Zara Lomas. Indigenous Maori in Aotearoa New Zealand are currently facing multiple attacks on their rights and wellbeing ...

The Act Party is calling on Auckland University to scrap its compulsory courses covering the Treaty of Waitangi, describing ...

A controversy is brewing in New Zealand, as thousands of Kiwis recently took to the streets to protest a bill that would legally define the country's founding treaty — a change that opponents ...

The Treaty Principles Bill will "whitewash" the Crown and Māori partnership, and "elevate the oppression of my people", says the daughter of Joe Hawke, who led the Bastion Point land occupation.

A fight for Maori rights drew 42,000 protesters to the New Zealand Parliament in the capital Wellington on Tuesday. A ...

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“Although our culture is ever moving, our history is set,” says Mori Rapana, Māori cultural manager at the Waitangi Treaty Grounds. “In order to understand the present, you have to start ...

Maori women have led a protest on the eve of the country's national day, as New Zealand's would-be constitutional revisionist David Seymour delivered an incendiary address at the Waitangi Treaty ...

Early Maori settlers ceded sovereignty to British invaders with the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840, and European settlers flooded in. Today, 70 percent of Kiwis, a common term for the people of New ...