With the stars of Matariki to rise in June, Jeff Sinnott looks at their relevance to our grape and wine community.

Three Maori MPs have been suspended from New Zealand’s parliament for performing a haka during a sitting last year. On Thursday, the legislature voted to ban Rawiri Waititi and Debbie Ngarewa ...

June 05, 2025 at 0:04pm BST. New Zealand legislators have voted to enact record suspensions from parliament for three politicians who performed a Maori haka to protest over a proposed law.

Three Maori MPs from Te Pati Maori are set to be suspended from New Zealand’s Parliament over performing a traditional haka in protest of the controversial Treaty Principles Bill.The ...

National MP and Maori-Crown relations minister Tama Potaka called it a “cremation day” for the bill. “It’s dead, it’s gone and it will be buried,” he told Radio New Zealand.

THE BUSH Theatre trustees have appointed Taio Lawson as the theatre’s new Artistic Director and Co-CEO. Lawson joins the company in Summer 2025 and will oversee the final season of plays ...

Winston Peters, who is Maori, objected to Ricardo Menendez March calling New Zealand by its Maori name, ‘Aotearoa’, in parliament.

It talks about Queen Victoria’s role in establishing the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi and criticises the Crown’s historical breaches of its promises, noting that while Maori-Crown relations had ...

The bill is unlikely to pass, as it does not have enough support in New Zealand's Parliament to be enacted into law. This has not stopped opponents, including white New Zealanders and Maori New ...

Why 35,000 People Took To New Zealand Streets In One Of Biggest Protest For Maori Rights MP David Seymour, who is a Maori himself, introduced the Treaty Principles Bill in Parliament.

His bill is widely opposed – by left and right-wing former prime ministers, 40 of the country’s most senior lawyers, and thousands of Maori and non-Maori New Zealanders who are walking the ...

A fight for Maori rights drew 42,000 protesters to the New Zealand Parliament in the capital Wellington on Tuesday. A nine-day-long hikoi, or peaceful march – a tradition of the Maori – was ...