Scientists call for better protection of Antarctica’s vulnerable seafloor ecosystem as ship traffic increases around the continent.

New Zealand's Waitangi Treaty may be at risk. These young Māori are fighting to protect it New Zealand's government is making "really worrying" repeals to Māori rights, campaigners say.

The decision effectively lowers the barriers for Māori, the indigenous people of Aotearoa/New Zealand, to establish customary rights over the use of the foreshore and seabed. The Supreme Court’s ...

The Labour Party is crying foul over plans for a truncated select committee process for controversial legislation that will make it harder for Māori groups to gain customary title over foreshore ...

Audrey Young, Senior Political Correspondent at the New Zealand Herald based at Parliament, specialises in writing about politics and power. The Government hopes to have the bill restoring the ...

There’s a term that crops up whenever Aotearoa New Zealand’s political debates turn to the Treaty of Waitangi and its contemporary relevance: “race relations”. We’ve heard it most ...

The 2004 Act vested ownership of the foreshore and seabed in the Crown, extinguishing any Māori claims to ownership and causing widespread outrage and protests among Māori communities.

Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu kaiwhakahaere Justin Tipa says the Government's moves risk reopening the foreshore and seabed controversy. Ngāi Tahu says Government moves to make it harder for Māori to ...

The foreshore and seabed controversy dates back to 2004 when the Government passed the Foreshore and Seabed Act. This legislation effectively overturned a landmark Court of Appeal decision in the ...

Today, you don’t have to look far to find people describing Act’s new Treaty Principles Bill as this generation’s foreshore and seabed moment, and the similarities are striking. But while the ...

New Zealand, Battered by a Record Storm, Faces a Painful Cleanup Six people were dead and thousands were still unaccounted for after Cyclone Gabrielle lashed the North Island.