New Zealand Parliament Suspended as Maori Lawmakers Perform Haka to Protest Bill
Opposition lawmakers performed the traditional dance during a reading of a bill that would redefine the country’s founding treaty with its Indigenous people.
New Zealand Lawmakers Explode in Powerful Haka Chant on Parliament Floor to Protest Controversial Bill Threatening Māori Rights
The bill objects to certain to "ethnic quotas in public institutions," arguing protections for Māori culture defy "the ...
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Māori Lawmakers in New Zealand’s Disrupt Parliament With Protest ‘Haka’
But not before one final flashpoint. When asked how her party’s lawmakers would vote, Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke of Te Pāti ...
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Maori haka in NZ parliament to protest at bill to reinterpret founding treaty
New Zealand's parliament was brought to a temporary halt by MPs performing a haka, amid anger over a controversial bill ...
Watch: New Zealand MPs perform haka in parliament to disrupt debate on Māori rights
Two Māori MPs were removed from the chamber for protesting a bill that ‘reinterprets’ rights for the country’s Indigenous ...
Who is Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke? New Zealand's MP Whose Māori Haka in Parliament Went Viral
New Zealand MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke has once again grabbed headlines after a video of her performing the traditional ...
Lawmakers stage Māori protest in New Zealand's parliament during fraught race relations debate
A vote in New Zealand’s parliament was suspended and two lawmakers ejected Thursday amid debate over a controversial proposed ...
Senior Māori MPs Rawiri Waititi, Shane Jones trade blows on haka, pornography after Treaty bill row
Barbs are flying between senior Māori MPs after Parliament descended into chaos during the first reading of the Treaty Principles Bill when one of Te Pāti Māori’s new members was ejected from the ...
New Zealand’s Youngest MP Rips Up Bill, Stages ‘Haka’ Protest In Parliament Over Controversial Bill
On Thursday, New Zealand’s parliamentary session erupted into a fiery debate as 22-year-old Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke staged ...
'Watching pornos a reason to go to jail': Barbs fly between senior Māori MPs over haka row
Barbs are flying between senior Māori MPs after Parliament descended into chaos during the first reading of the Treaty Principles Bill.
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Māori Party halts Parliament over Treaty Bill
Te Pāti Māori and Hauraki Waikato MP Hana Rawhiti Maipi-Clark temporarily halted Parliament’s passage of the first reading of ...
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NZ’s Treaty Principles Bill haka highlights tensions between Māori tikanga and rules of Parliament
Te Pāti Māori’s extraordinary display of protest — interrupting the first vote on the Treaty Principles Bill — has highlighted the tension in Aotearoa New Zealand between Māori tikanga, or customs, ...