Dozens of Destiny Church's Man Up and Legacy groups break through police barricades at Auckland's Rainbow Parade, reports ...

The protests erupted into Parliament ... it earlier this year at the funeral procession for New Zealand’s Maori king. Thursday’s haka had another meaning, explained Margaret Mutu, professor ...

A bill aimed at ending long-standing rights from the indigenous population has fuelled this year’s heated events.

The director of a new documentary says she lays bare a piece of New Zealand history that society has willingly tried to forget. The Haka Party Incident is a documentary based on a theatre play about a ...

An Auckland Council boss is blasting protesters and their church leader for verbal and physical attacks on youngsters and ...

People linked to Destiny Church stormed a children's drag event at a west Auckland library, leading to some 30 people had being barricaded inside. Later, police intervened when a group disrupted Pride ...

Organisers of a children’s event violently disrupted by Destiny Church groups are urging the rainbow community to remain vigilant with concerns of more protests. It comes amid a weekend of events for ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. New Zealand on Thursday marked the anniversary of its founding ...

performing a haka, a traditional Maori dance, the local English daily New Zealand Herald reported. However, the police dispersed them without making any arrests. Earlier, protesters stormed a ...

The national holiday marks the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi between Maori chiefs and colonising British forces, widely seen as the birth of modern New Zealand.