New Zealand politicians broke out in song Thursday after striking down a right wing-backed proposal that opponents feared would erode indigenous rights.

New Zealand's parliament on Thursday comprehensively rejected a bill aimed at reinterpreting the principles of the country’s founding agreement following months of protest and debate over the place of ...

A tiny population of rare native orchids has received a boost with the first-ever reintroduction of lab-grown seedlings into ...

A separate Māori Health Authority has been dismantled, for example. It was set up by the previous centre-left government to tackle health inequalities that mean indigenous people live seven years less ...

Popular opposition to the far-right ACT Party’s bill was channelled into a campaign promoting national “unity” and denying ...

Advertisement Article continues below this ad The sweeping reinterpretation of the 1840 treaty signed by British representatives and 500 Māori chiefs during New Zealand’s colonization was never ...

WELLINGTON, April 10 (Reuters) - New Zealand's parliament on Thursday comprehensively ... months of protest and debate over the place of indigenous Maori in the Pacific nation.

New Zealand’s government plans to have 1 million Kiwis speaking basic te reo – the language of New Zealand’s indigenous Maori population – by 2040. There are also calls to make the ...

Cooper’s orchid is New Zealand’s rarest and most elusive - with fewer than 250 plants left in the wild. It belongs to the group of potato orchids, which grow mostly as tubers, except for a brief ...