Maori will refuse to forgo their rights to the foreshore and seabed unless private owners do the same, an iwi leaders' group has warned.

Diana Clement wanders off a Wellington street and into New Zealand's tumultuous history at the National Archives.

The Department of Internal Affairs has apologised to a mother after it admitted failing to uphold the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi in dealing with her.

Chris Finlayson writes on how the Waikato River Settlement Act benefits the whole nation.

John Key says giving Te Urewera to Tuhoe could have opened the way for other iwi to put strong cases for ownership of national parks.

International media are having a ball with John Key's Tuhoe "cannibalism joke" and "passive-aggressive" apology.

'Cabinet is not so different from a marae committee meeting,' Tuhoe representative Tamati Kruger says.

The 2007 'anti-terror raids' reaffirmed old suspicions and helped quicken the enthusiasm for a "Tuhoe Nation", writes historian Paul Moon.

Tuhoe representatives believe they had Cabinet numbers to secure ownership of Te Urewera National Park but say a nervous prime minister acting unilaterally stood in the way.

National's decision to rule out giving Tuhoe the Te Urewera National Park as part of its settlement was prompted by 'a failure of nerve', the tribe says.

Titewhai Harawira questioned the Waitangi Tribunal’s right to assess her iwi’s claims when the tribunal opened its hearing this morning.

In defensive mode over National's Maori policy agenda, John Key says separatism has no place in New Zealand.

National's stack of agreements with the Maori Party may spark Cabinet dissent.