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Crown advised to halt Ngapuhi negotiations
The Crown's hopes of settlement for Ngapuhi have been dealt a further moral blow after a Waitangi Tribunal report recommended putting negotiations on hold.
The Crown's hopes of settlement for Ngapuhi have been dealt a further moral blow after a Waitangi Tribunal report recommended putting negotiations on hold.
The Treaty Negotiations Minister has one message for Waikato-Tainui if it wants to begin negotiating a claim over parts of Auckland - get a mandate.
The Maori King's claim for Auckland is taking the piss, and someone needs to call them on it, writes Mike Hosking.
A power struggle is brewing with the victor laying claim to Auckland.
We were a bit worried about that being a distraction. But she was discreet to the point where sometimes we forgot that she was there.
Old boys of troubled Auckland Catholic co-ed boarding school Hato Petera have lodged a Treaty of Waitangi claim on the property and surrounding land.
Housing Minister Nick Smith has held an urgent meeting with Auckland iwi amid concerns that a dispute over surplus land in Auckland could end up in court.
Treaty Minister Chris Finlayson says the impasse over Ngapuhi's settlement is largely personality-driven andNZ First leader Winston Peters could help resolving it.
Newly-elected Northland MP Winston Peters has been called on to resolve a dispute that has held up a Treaty settlement for the country's largest iwi.
Lock up your moggies if you live near a sensitive wildlife area, or they could be put down - that's the latest suggestion from Gareth Morgan.
The PM's Office has finally agreed to release transcripts from his post cabinet press conferences, and Audrey Young says it's a small, but important, victory.
I think Andrew Little might have had his first Tony Abbott moment at Waitangi last Friday.
Prime Minister John Key says Andrew Little's comments at Waitangi on Maori sovereignty were advancing "separatism."
Andrew Little made something of "a captain's call" on Waitangi Day when suggesting notions of greater Maori sovereignty should not be dismissed.
Philanthropist Gareth Morgan says he will have spent $600,000 on his Treaty of Waitangi campaign by the end of the year.
A hikoi comprised of several different protest groups has made its way to the upper marae at Waitangi.
Three iwi now have assets valued at $2.7b but in the next few years, 30 to 40 will emerge with that financial firepower, one expert says.
Waitangi is usually about domestic friction, but yesterday war overseas dominated on the marae.
Prime Minister John Key and Government ministers have been welcomed on to Te Tii Marae without incident.
Last year, two notable New Zealand economists warned of dire consequences if our regional economies were allowed to run down from "benign neglect".
Government ministers have upped the pressure on Ngapuhi to get on with their settlement in the lead-up to Waitangi Day - and even the Governor-General got in on the act.
Imagine if Ngapuhi had settled in the 1990s, as Ngai Tahu and Waikato Tainui did.
Gareth Morgan enjoys an argument and has the wealth to indulge his views. But his latest adopted cause - biculturalism - isn't needed.