WELLINGTON: New Zealand’s parliament on Thursday handed record-long suspensions to three Indigenous Maori lawmakers who last year staged a protest haka on the debating floor. Maori Party co ...

Last November, Te Pati Maori or Maori Party MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke and co-leaders Rawiri Waititi and Debbie Ngarewa-Packer voiced their opposition to a bill that sought to strip protections for ...

3 New Zealand MPs Banned From Parliament For Staging Haka Protests Maori Party co-leaders Rawiri Waititi and Debbie Ngarewa-Packer were banished from parliament for 21 days, the longest-ever ...

In a historic move, New Zealand legislators enacted record suspensions from Parliament, targeting three lawmakers who performed a Maori haka in protest of a proposed bill. The protest drew attention ...

New Zealand legislators voted on Thursday to enact record suspensions from parliament for three lawmakers who performed a Maori haka to protest a proposed law. Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke received a ...

New Zealand ’s parliament agreed on historically lengthy suspensions for three Indigenous legislators who last year performed a haka, a traditional Maori dance, disrupting the reading of a ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand legislators voted Thursday to enact record suspensions from Parliament for three lawmakers who performed a Maori haka to protest a proposed law. Hana-Rwhiti ...

New Zealand's parliament has voted to suspend three Maori MPs following their protest haka during a sitting last year. The traditional dance was started by opposition MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke ...

New Zealand's parliament issued Thursday its longest-ever suspensions to three Indigenous Maori lawmakers for performing a protest haka on the chamber floor last year. Maori Party co-leaders Rawiri ...

Three Maori MPs have been suspended from New Zealand’s parliament for performing a haka during a sitting last year. On Thursday, the legislature voted to ban Rawiri Waititi and Debbie Ngarewa ...

Wellington: New Zealand's parliament on Thursday handed record-long suspensions to three Indigenous Maori lawmakers who last year staged a protest haka on the debating floor. Maori Party co ...

As Maori language and culture have become part of mainstream New Zealand in recent years, haka appear in a range of cultural, sombre and celebratory settings. They also have rung out in parliament ...