Thousands marched on New Zealand’s capital city of Wellington on Friday to protest a bill that would reinterpret the Treaty of Waitangi, an 1840 agreement between the British Empire and Maori chiefs that governs policy matters related to indigenous people to this day.
Surgeons in Auckland, New Zealand, are expressing discomfort with a new policy that requires them to consider the ethnicity of their patients as a factor when scheduling surgeries.
New Zealand passed a law on Tuesday that effectively phases out legal tobacco use over the next generation by banning the sale of tobacco products to anyone born after January 1, 2009.
New Zealand police arrested 120 people who were protesting against coronavirus restrictions Thursday outside the national parliament.
A Maori politician who claims a necktie symbolises “a colonial noose” was ejected from New Zealand’s Parliament when he defied custom and entered the chamber without one.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Monday nominated Nanaia Mahuta, a Maori, to serve as her country’s first female indigenous foreign minister. Arden said the nomination was in line with her promise to assemble an “incredibly diverse” Cabinet.
A New Zealand seafront town has banned a replica of Captain Cook’s ship Endeavour from docking there to mark 250 years since the explorer’s arrival after an outcry from the local indigenous Māori community.
Hollywood director Taika Waititi has descibed his New Zealand homeland as “racist as f**k” during a candid magazine interview.
