THREE Maori MPs have been banned from the New Zealand parliament for performing the haka during a protest. The haka is a traditional war dance of the indigenous Maori people - popularly used by the ...

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-leaders ...

New Zealand's parliament has handed record suspensions to three Indigenous Maori MPs after they performed a haka to protest a controversial bill last year. Maori Party co-leaders Rawiri Waititi ...

Wellington, Jun 5 (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-Rawhiti ...

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 ...

Although performed on many different occasions, haka are often used as a kind of ceremonial war dance or challenge to authority. New Zealand's foreign affairs minister, Winston Peters, earlier mocked ...

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 ...

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 ...