Tens of thousands have rallied outside New Zealand’s Parliament to protest against a bill that critics say would hurt the rights of Maori people. An estimated 42,000 people demonstrated on ...

Jenny Shipley, the former conservative prime minister, said just putting it forward threatened to “divide New Zealand in a way that I haven’t lived through in my adult life”. Sign up to the ...

Dame Jenny Shipley, former prime minister of New Zealand and board member of the Boao Forum Photo: Liu Yang/GT China and New Zealand have held the first round of negotiations on a services trade ...