The bill sought to redefine New Zealand’s founding document, the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi (Te Tiriti o Waitangi), which established the rights of Māori and non-Māori people.

Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke made international headlines for protesting efforts to change New Zealand’s founding document. Now the Treaty Principles Bill is dead, but her work is not done.

We are proud to stand here today to oppose the Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill. Toitū Te Tiriti." Paul Goldsmith, National Party, Minister of Justice: ...

Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, a 22-year-old lawmaker for Te Pati Maori, or the Maori Party, poses at Parliament in Wellington, New Zealand, last month. A video of her protesting the Treaty Principles ...

The Treaty of Waitangi is a document in Māori and English that intended to found a nation state and build a government in New Zealand. It was signed at Waitangi in the Bay of Islands on 6 February ...

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Waitangi Day is a multi-day series of events, summits and cultural celebrations centred in northern New Zealand at the site of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840.

In New Zealand, the prime minister has ruled out a referendum on the Treaty of Waitangi, but legal experts warn there are multiple paths to a nationwide vote.

On February 6, 1840, the Treaty of Waitangi, also called Te Tiriti o Waitangi or just Te Tiriti, was signed between the British Crown and around 500 Maori chiefs, or rangatira.

The drama began as MPs were voting on the ACT Party’s bill on the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi following its first reading. First-term Te Pati Māori MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke rose from her ...