The report recommended that Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, who at 22 is New Zealand’s youngest politician, be suspended from ...

Indigenous Maori lawmakers have decried a push to temporarily banish them from New Zealand’s parliament, after disrupting the ...

Three Indigenous lawmakers in New Zealand face suspension for performing a haka during a parliamentary session. The ...

In November 2024, three legislators from the Te Pati Maori party performed a protest haka in parliament against a contentious treaty bill. A New Zealand government committee has recommended that three ...

Three New Zealand lawmakers from Te Pati Maori, the Maori Party, will receive temporary bans from Parliament and severe censure, it was announced Wednesday, over their protest of a proposed law by ...

Three Maori MPs face suspension from New Zealand's Parliament over performing a haka to protest the Treaty Principles Bill. The parliamentary privileges committee recommended suspensions for ...

Three New Zealand lawmakers from Te Pāti Māori, the Māori Party, will receive temporary bans from Parliament and severe ...

The haka is a chanting dance of challenge of great cultural importance in New Zealand, and the three politicians from Te Pati Maori, the Maori party, performed one to oppose a Bill that would have ...

It frames Maori protest, haka, and the assertion of (Maori sovereignty) rangatiratanga as inherently threatening," it wrote. The left-wing indigenous rights party said the decision meant it was ...

The New Zealand MPs who protested constitutional reforms by performing a Maori haka on the floor of parliament will receive the most severe suspensions ever issued in the institution's 170-year ...

They said that the haka – a ceremonial Maori dance made world-famous by the country’s men’s rugby team, the All Blacks – could have intimidated other politicians and constituted contempt ...

Three Maori Party MPs will be temporarily banned from New Zealand’s parliament for protesting a proposed law change with a haka. A parliamentary committee has recommended the penalties, understood to ...