“How do we speak truth to power? Just as power pretends it has none. As if history has lapsed, exploitation has expired, as ...

Monday 23 June 2025 marks the closing of the select committee submission period on the controversial Regulatory Standards ...

The law would also set up a Regulatory Standards Board, which would respond to concerns raised around the consistency of ...

ACT was founded as a party advocating neoliberal economics; neoliberal economists still advise it, even if many of its members do not always appreciate the economics they are signing up to.

Te Pāti Māori co-leaders and one of its MPs are beginning suspensions from Parliament after performing a haka without prior permission.

Opposition MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, who started the traditional dance, was suspended for seven days, while her party's co-leaders Rawiri Waititi and Debbie Ngarewa-Packer were banned for 21 days.

Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke made international headlines for protesting efforts to change New Zealand’s founding document. Now the Treaty Principles Bill is dead, but her work is not done.

A bill which sought to “reinterpret” New Zealand’s Treaty of Waitangi, signed between Māori tribal leaders and the British Crown in 1840, has failed in parliament by 11 votes to 112.

New Zealand MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke on April 10 spoke in Parliament over a controversial proposed law that would redefine New Zealand's founding document. The bill would govern how the Treaty ...