When asked how her party’s lawmakers would vote, Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke of Te Pāti Māori stood and began a ringing haka ...
Parliament was briefly suspended on Thursday after Maori members performed a haka — a traditional ceremonial group dance — to disrupt the vote on a controversial bill.
The controversial Treaty Principles Bill would end the Māori right of self-determination outlined in a nearly 200-year-old ...
In New Zealand, bills must pass three readings in Parliament in order to receive Royal Assent and ... Māori legislators disrupted the session with a traditional haka dance, the war dance of the Māori ...
Māori lawmakers performed a traditional haka dance to protest a New Zealand bill that could redefine the country's ...
The New Zealand parliament was suspended on Thursday after Maori MPs performed the haka dance in protest of a bill.
A fiery display by 22-year-old Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke, New Zealand’s youngest MP, went viral after she ripped up the ...
Māori lawmakers interrupted a New Zealand parliamentary vote with a Haka to protest a law that would erode the land and ...
In an extraordinary display of unity and defiance, Maori MPs and spectators erupted into a powerful haka in New Zealand's ...
Over 10,000 people in New Zealand are taking part in a march toward the capital Wellington to protest legislation that would ...
New Zealand's parliament was suspended and two lawmakers were ejected during a vote on a controversial proposed law ...
The Treaty Principles Bill seeks to revise New Zealand’s foundational agreement with Maori people and is hugely unpopular, ...