PM calls for civil debate as government faces backlash over efforts to roll back policies to support Maori community.

New Zealand's Deputy Prime Minister David Seymour on Friday (Feb 6) brushed off criticism of his claims that colonisation had been positive for the country's indigenous population and labelled ...

A look at the parties, leaders, issues and polling in the 2026 New Zealand election, which will take place on November 7.

For the past few months New Zealand’s Māori nationalist Te Pāti Māori (Māori Party) has been consumed with a bitter internal power struggle, which may well result in a split. Maori Party co-leaders ...

SYDNEY, Australia — Indigenous Maori lawmakers have decried a push to temporarily banish them from New Zealand's parliament after disrupting the reading of a contentious race relations bill last year ...