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Indigenous culture
Why are thousands of people marching for Maori rights?
Tens of thousands of people have gathered in Wellington for the final stretch of a week-long protest that has spanned the length of the country. Here is why.
- by Charlotte Graham-McLay
Latest
World leaders issue warning to Trump on trade, but not by name
The APEC summit has made a stand against new barriers, in a signal to the US president-elect to rethink his tariffs plan.
- by David Crowe
Haka interrupts NZ parliament, MPs kicked out, as treaty bill arrives
Tempers flared in New Zealand’s parliament during an extraordinary debate on the Treaty Principles Bill.
‘We’re not helping them’: Inside the town of New Zealand’s fugitive father
The parents of Tom Phillips, who vanished with his children three years ago, say they are not aiding their son as he evades police.
NZ government introduces bill to reinterpret the Treaty of Waitangi
The 1840 agreement between indigenous Māori and the British Crown is considered the nation’s founding document.
- by Tracy Withers
King and Queen gifted a whole pig on state visit to Samoa
Charles and Camilla were offered gifts including hand-woven fabric and a whole pig, wrapped and presented on a pallet carried by four chiefs in a spectacular welcome ceremony.
- by Hannah Furness
Analysis
China relations
New Zealand’s biggest pivot since the 1980s
A Royal New Zealand Navy transit through the Taiwan Strait underscores a big shift in foreign policy under Prime Minister Christopher Luxon.
- by The Economist
Opinion
King Charles III
The King loves Australia but his next stop’s the big one (and China will be watching)
In Samoa, assembled nations will decide the Commonwealth’s next secretary-general. It will be one of three Africans whose countries are beneficiaries of China’s largesse
- by George Brandis
Opinion
Pacific diplomacy
Australia’s arm-wrestle with China is all over the billboards
Anyone who doubts Australia and China are in what Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong called a “permanent contest” in the Pacific needs to think again.
- by Richard McGregor
Female captain of NZ ship that sank subjected to vicious online abuse
The Manawanui sank in Samoan waters after it lost power and hit a reef in rough seas. Other NZ servicewomen have also received “deeply concerning misogynistic narratives”, including from Melbourne.
- by Ben McKay
What fugitive child said to pig hunters as three-year mystery takes dramatic twist
A father and his three children, clad in camouflage and carrying large backpacks, were spotted by a pair of teenage hunters on a remote New Zealand farm before their brief encounter.
- by Riley Walter and Jessica McSweeney
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