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A proposed member’s bill addressing a power imbalance that prevents communities taking steps to develop public health measures on alcohol use could bypass the ballot process if enough MPs agreed.

The New Zealand First Foundation fraud trial has had a glimpse of the party's inner workings from a former insider.

After fighting so hard to have Māori wards established, both locally and nationally, standing in Whakatāne District Council's first election to include them may seem to be a given for Toni Boynton.

New Caledonia's restricted electoral rolls can no longer be justified and must be opened, says a local member of the French National Assembly, Philippe Dunoyer.

A New Caledonian member of the French National Assembly Philippe Dunoyer says New Caledonia's restricted electoral rolls can no longer be justified and must be opened.

A legal challenge aimed to annul the result of last December's referendum on New Caledonia's independence from France has failed.

The petition delivered by Te Pāti Māori calls to change the country's official name to Aotearoa, and begin a process to restore te reo Māori names for all towns, cities, and places by 2026.

Privately owned rural water supplies should be able to keep managing themselves, rather than handing over to the Three Waters entities, a working group has recommended.

Top-level contact is reported to have resumed between the New Caledonian president Louis Mapou and the re-elected French president Emmanuel Macron.

Son of Jacques Lafleur eyes political career, penalties for funeral homes, new airline for Northern Marianas, and American Samoa looks to buy land in Hawaii

A new French overseas minister has been appointed by President Emmanuel Macron in the second stage of his government reshuffle

At the turn of the millennium, the Timorese people voted for independence from Indonesia. Twenty years on, The Detail talks to New Zealanders who played a part in building a new democracy.  

A pro-independence delegate has told the United Nations the Kanak people won't accept France's attempt to recolonise New Caledonia.

The House sits down with the Clerk of the House of Representatives, David Wilson, whose team runs the machinery of Parliament.

Activists at one of the world's longest-running protests for the rights of indigenous people are not pinning their hopes for change on Australia's 21 May general election.

Four anti-independence parties in New Caledonia have joined forces as the territory prepares for a new statute after last year's rejection of independence from France.

New Caledonia's pro-independence FLNKS movement and five other small nationalist parties have agreed that they will only discuss the territory's accession to full sovereignty in talks planned with…

Irish nationalists in Belfast toasted Sinn Féin's historic election victory while pro-British neighbours quietly fumed, but there was little sign the weekend's political earthquake was about to rock…

An Irish community leader in Aotearoa says the election of Sinn Féin in Northern Ireland is a historic day which will hopefully continue the peace process.

Sinn Fein, is hailing its first election win in Northern Ireland's history as a "defining moment" for the British-controlled region and is calling for a debate on the creation of a united Ireland.