The Waitangi Tribunal has called the bill a severe breach of the treaty, warning it would limit Maori rights, reduce social cohesion and damage the Maori-Crown relationship. Act party has ...

Mount Taranaki — now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Maori name — is the latest natural feature to be granted personhood in New Zealand, which has ruled that a river and a stretch of sacred land ...

This has not stopped opponents, including white New Zealanders and Maori New Zealanders, from warning about the bill's potential consequences, which they say are emblematic of a rightward shift in ...