New Zealand

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

Beijing seems to see impending U.S. tariffs as an opportunity to win allies in the Indo-Pacific.

Speaker Gerry Brownlee was forced to take the rare move of suspending the House and clearing the public gallery after Maori Party MPs performed a haka.

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.

‘I make this apology to all survivors on behalf of my own and previous governments,’ the prime minister said.

Protests are underway against the contentious bill.

Christopher Luxon has used social media to warn beneficiaries that his government intends to enforce tough new sanctions to make them look for work.

Paul Burns asked students that if they believed the world was overpopulated then they should commit suicide.

A magnitude 4.9 shake—another in a recent swarm—has rattled New Zealanders, particularly Wellingtonians who feel they’re overdue for ’the big one.’

Not only could there be a major reduction in the number of places where mail could be sent, it may no longer be delivered to homes under a new proposal.

Despite COVID-19 demonstrating its unpreparedness New Zealand has still not updated its 20-year-old pandemic plan, and is at risk of not having enough vaccines.

The rapidly declining New Zealand economy is pushing more people onto welfare.

A report from the Coalition to Protect Racehorses puts the number of dead at 151, but says the true figure is likely to be much higher.

The price of success—in this case achieving revenue of over $10 million—is a bill for its share of the Telecommunications Development Levy, the Commission says.

It appears New Zealand is caught up in the investigation of a leak of classified documents that contain the US’s assessment of Israeli plans to attack Iran.

After Canada refused to abide by a ruling over New Zealand dairy imports, the South Pacific nation has invoked a never-before-used dispute resolution.

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.

Finance Minister Nicola Willis has told the Bank to use its regulatory powers to encourage more banking competition, or the government will act.

The HMNZS Manawanui is leaking diesel into the water off the coast of Samoa, and New Zealand says it will now try and remove fuel tanks from the wreck.