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‘Grubby’ treaty principles bill voted down in New Zealand parliament

Bill which sought to radically reinterpret New Zealand’s founding treaty between Māori tribes and the British Crown fails by 11 votes to 112

The Guardian - AU

Calculated risk: will the next Reserve Bank governor relax capital requirements for banks?

Adrian Orr has so far not spoken about the reasons for his recent and unexpected resignation as Reserve Bank governor, but the sudden departure caused understandable speculation.

The Conversation

As new charter schools open, we still know too little about how they worked last time

Seven new charter schools are opening their gates, and ACT leader and Associate Education Minister David Seymour – the politician responsible for their existence – has been singing their praises.

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Protests and a New Zealand leader's absence overshadow a day marking the founding treaty with Māori

The anniversary of New Zealand’s founding document, the Treaty of Waitangi, has passed in a muted fashion

The Independent UK

Māori protesters turn their backs on government ministers at Waitangi Day event

Anger at policies that roll back Māori rights surface as rightwing Act party leader David Seymour has microphone removed twice and protesters stage walkout

The Guardian - AU

Seymour enrages Maori as NZ leaders descend on Waitangi

The row over the role of the Treaty of Waitangi in modern-day New Zealand shows no sign of abating, with protests on the eve of the country's national day.

AAP

David Seymour says Kiwis are too squeamish about privatisation – history shows why they lost the appetite

State asset sales have been a political dividing line in New Zealand for decades now, and it seems voters are again being asked to decide which side they’re on.

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Experts, political figures consider Treaty principles debate beyond bill

The end of David Seymour's Treaty Principles Bill doesn't mean the end of a debate on constitutional reform and the country's founding document.

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Bill to reinterpret founding treaty with Māori would make New Zealand a ‘laughing stock’, MPs told

Introduced to parliament by a minor coalition party, the treaty principles bill seeks to abandon a set of principles that guide the relationship between Māori and ruling authorities

The Guardian - AU

The man whose job it is to make sure American’s can fly home for Christmas

Everything you wanted to ask American Airlines’ chief operating officer

The Independent UK

Land of opportunity or bicultural nation? Twin visions of national identity face off over the Treaty principles

The controversial Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill is being presented by its architect, ACT Party leader David Seymour, primarily as a matter of lawmaking – a clarification through legislation.

The Conversation

Is ‘judicial activism’ skewing Treaty law – or are court critics the real radicals?

Claims of “judicial activism” are nothing new. Ever since the term was coined by US historian Arthur Schlesinger in 1947, it has been regularly invoked in the United States to describe judges perceived to be going beyond their constitutional role.

The Conversation

Why are New Zealand’s Maori protesting over colonial-era treaty bill?

Thousands are marching against a bill they believe undermines the Treaty of Waitangi and limits Maori rights.

Al Jazeera

Voices: I moved abroad after a US election. It didn’t go exactly as planned

While many social media users and a handful of celebrities have suggested they’re looking into moving abroad rather than live under a second Trump presidency, I took the plunge following the election of George W Bush. I soon realized that I may have been a little naive

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Evening Standard

New Zealand: Over 42,000 protesters descend on Wellington in support of Māori rights

People crowded streets of the capital Wellington with flags aloft on Tuesday

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Massive NZ treaty protest urges Luxon to kill the bill

New Zealand's divisive treaty debate continues with a huge rally in Wellington of protesters against a government bill to reinterpret the Treaty of Waitangi.

The Independent UK

35,000 crowd New Zealand's Parliament grounds in support of Māori rights

As tens of thousands of marchers thronged the streets in New Zealand’s capital Wellington, the column of people, flags aloft, had the air of a festival or a parade rather than a protest

The Independent UK

Why New Zealand is seeing mass protests over Māori rights

New Zealand’s parliament was halted by politicians performing a haka

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NZ anti-Māori rights bill faces backlash

Māori opponents of a vote on the Treaty Principles Bill staged a haka in Parliament on Thursday

Al Jazeera

Thousands march on New Zealand capital against Indigenous treaty overhaul

Controversial legislation revises the 184-year-old Treaty of Waitangi granting Maori tribes land rights.

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New Zealand MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke Suspended After Leading A Haka During Vote For Controversial Bill

The vote was for the controversial Treaty Principals Bill which seeks to reinterpret one of the country’s founding documents.

Latin Times

New Zealand Lawmakers Explode in Powerful Haka Chant on Parliament Floor to Protest Controversial Bill Threatening Māori Rights

The bill objects to certain to "ethnic quotas in public institutions," arguing protections for Māori culture defy "the principle of equal rights."

The Independent UK

Lawmakers stage Māori protest in New Zealand's parliament during fraught race relations debate

A vote in New Zealand’s parliament was suspended and two lawmakers ejected Thursday amid debate over a controversial proposed law redefining the country’s founding agreement between Indigenous Māori and the British Crown

The Guardian - AU

Insults and a haka in New Zealand parliament as MPs debate Māori rights bill

Voting temporarily suspended amid disruptions including a Māori party MP ripping up a copy of the bill

The Conversation

The Treaty Principles Bill is already straining social cohesion – a referendum could be worse

With the protest hikoi from the far north moving through Auckland on its way to Wellington, it might be said ACT leader David Seymour has been granted his wish of generating an “important national conversation about the place of the Treaty in our constitutional arrangements”.

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