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People crowded streets of the capital Wellington with flags aloft on Tuesday

Although the bill is unlikely to pass, opponents say bid to reverse progress for Maori threatens to divide society.

'I know that's a controversial statement,' Chief Justice says.

New dynamics in this Assembly mean it will be a very different term.

The vote was for the controversial Treaty Principals Bill which seeks to reinterpret one of the country’s founding documents.

A vote in New Zealand’s parliament was suspended and two lawmakers ejected Thursday amid debate over a controversial proposed law redefining the country’s founding agreement between Indigenous Māori and the British Crown

The Japanese owner of 7-Eleven said Wednesday its founding family had offered a counter-bid to a takeover attempt by Canadian convenience store rival Alimentation Couche-Tard (ACT).

It's part of a system-wide reform to how basic skills are taught.

With the protest hikoi from the far north moving through Auckland on its way to Wellington, it might be said ACT leader David Seymour has been granted his wish of generating an “important national conversation about the place of the Treaty in our constitutional arrangements”.