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Three MPs from the Māori Party and one from Labour have been referred to the Privileges Committee after they interrupted voting on a contentious bill.

The Treaty Principles Bill is aimed at ending perceived ‘race-based’ laws and rights that have fathered Maori-specific institutions and positions.

The bill has disappeared from Parliament’s schedule of business.

As protesters march from the top of the North Island and bottom of the South to meet in Wellington, their numbers are growing, causing disruption.

Protests are underway against the contentious bill.

New Zealand’s Finance Minister says the country has ’turned the corner on interest rates’ as inflation reaches 2.2 percent, but the economy still has issues.

The broadcaster cited ’tough economic conditions and structural challenges within the media sector.’

Professor Joanna Kidman, head of a research centre on extremism, has openly criticised the government’s position on boot camps for youth offenders.

As aprt of its coalition deal, the ACT Party has won a reversal from National of its previous decision to ban the cold and flu mediction.

The race politics aspects of Three Waters ensured it would be met with opposition; now Councils will have to find billions of dollars.

Booing and singing over government speakers has characterised the first morning at Waitangi, the official celebration of New Zealand’s national day.

Ahead of New Zealand’s national day, Waitangi Day, on Feb. 6, the coalition party has made its strongest statement yet on government-Māori relations.

MP Karen Chhour said women of colour should not be held to lower standards, after Green MP Golriz Gharaman was charged with shoplifting.

Historic gathering of tribes from across the country.

The MDRS planning laws bypassed councils as a way to speed up building approvals for the country’s rapidly growing housing demands.

The governing ACT Party has threatened to cut funding to the arts if such works continue receiving support.