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Ben McKay

Ardern issues historic Maori apology

NZ PM Jacinda Ardern has apologised to a Maori tribe for almost two centuries of treaty breaches. (Dean Lewins/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

Jacinda Ardern has issued a "long overdue" Crown apology to a Maori tribe for warmongering and almost two centuries of breaches to New Zealand's Treaty of Waitangi.

The prime minister travelled to the King Country settlement of Te Kuiti to issue the apology, the first she has delivered personally as part of reconciliation and treaty settlement efforts.

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