Tens of thousands of people have gathered in Wellington for the final stretch of a week-long protest that has spanned the length of the country. Here is why.

Thousands of Kiwis took to the streets to oppose a government bill to re-define the Treaty of Waitangi in law.

Parliamentarians first voted on the bill on Thursday, during which legislator Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke from the Te Pati Maori party ripped up a copy of the bill and led her colleagues in a ...

After the bill was presented in parliament last week, Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, a Maori Party MP, ripped the bill in half and launched into a haka. In the chaos that ensued, parliament was ...

Children marched alongside adults bearing distinctive full-face Maori “moko” tattoos and clutching ceremonial wooden weapons. The protests up and down the country are in response to a minor party in ...

The bill is a "huge sense of betrayal" and "nothing more than us having to defend that we exist," said Debbie Ngarewa-Packe, the co-leader of New Zealand's Te Pāti Maori Party. New Zealand now ...

One of New Zealand's largest-ever protest movements has concluded in Wellington, where tens of thousands of Kiwis took to the ...

Heads held high' - After it was presented for debate in parliament last week, 22-year-old Maori Party MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke took to her feet in the chamber, ripped the bill in half ...

New Zealand’s parliament was brought to a halt on Thursday as Maori MPs staged a haka protest on the floor over a controversial “equal rights” bill. Maori Party co-leader Hana-Rawhiti Maipi ...