New Zealand Maori activist Tame Iti gestures at the Waitangi Treaty House grounds ahead of Waitangi Day celebrations in Waitangi, northern New Zealand, Monday, Feb. 5, 2024.

New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon, center, arrives on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025, for the Waitangi Day ceremonies at Ōnuku Marae, New Zealand. Credit: AP/Kai Schwoerer ...

New Zealand’s right-wing National Party-led coalition government used Waitangi Day on February 6, the country’s national day, to stoke racial divisions and divert attention from its escalating ...

When New Zealand celebrates its national day on February 6, its governments have been known to treat the day with nervousness, if not outright dread, writes Michael Belgrave.

Waitangi Day 2024 is against the backdrop of a fiery debate in Aotearoa New Zealand over the newly elected coalition government's agenda — specifically surrounding Māori.

Waitangi Day marks the first signing of New Zealand's founding document: The Treaty of Waitangi or Te Tiriti o Waitangi in Māori. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon bucked tradition by choosing not ...

Waitangi Day is a multi-day series of events, summits and cultural celebrations centred in northern New Zealand at the site of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840.

Every year, New Zealand’s national day attracts wall-to-wall media coverage of events at the Waitangi Treaty Grounds in Northland, where government ministers, other political leaders, tribal ...

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New Zealand's Waitangi Day chaos tells a very modern race relations story that Australians know all too well. Tensions are running high in New Zealand as the fight back continues against dangerous ...

Prince Charles, Prince of Wales and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall pay a visit to Waitangi Treaty Grounds on November 20, 2019 in Waitangi, New Zealand.