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A Waka, a Māori canoe, is paddled at at Waitangi, New Zealand on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025, as the country begins to mark the anniversary of its founding document, the Treaty of Waitangi. Credit: AP ...
Waitangi Day marks the first signing of New Zealand's founding document: The Treaty of Waitangi or Te Tiriti o Waitangi in ...
The annual Waitangi Day celebrations, which also included free concerts, sporting events and panel debates, have long been used as a time of protest. New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon of ...
More than 1,000 people have marched into the treaty grounds at Waitangi on New Zealand's north island — the culmination of a week-long protest against a controversial government bill.
The Australian Labor government and some representatives of the Indigenous elite have praised the Treaty of Waitangi in New Zealand as a model for Australia; the treaty, first signed in 1840 ...
Members of Parliament celebrate as the Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi bill was rejected by Parliament in a 112 to 11 vote in Wellington, New Zealand, Thursday, April 10, 2025.
From the top of New Zealand's North Island, a group of Māori protesters are currently making a slow march south towards the hallowed grounds where the country's founding document was signed more ...
A man has died after being attacked by a shark off the coast of a remote island to the east of New Zealand. Jade Kahukore-Dixon had been diving off a boat in the Bay of Waitangi, near Chatham ...
New Zealand's coalition government, led by Chris Luxon, has travelled to Waitangi on New Zealand's North Island for the annual treaty meeting, or powhiri, with Maori leaders. There was a tense ...
Luxon's decision not to travel to Waitangi and instead spend the day with the South Island's largest tribe - or iwi in Māori - Ngāi Tahu, also drew a mixed response.
Luxon's decision not to travel to Waitangi and instead spend the day with the South Island's largest tribe - or iwi in Māori - Ngāi Tahu, also drew a mixed response.