A New Zealand government committee on Wednesday recommended three Indigenous lawmakers be temporarily suspended from ...

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

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

Clarke, face suspension after performing a haka during a vote on the Treaty Principles Bill, which sought to redefine the ...

Three members of the Maori Party faced suspension after performing a haka during a vote. The protest was against the Treaty ...

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 ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Three New Zealand lawmakers ... over their protest of a proposed law by performing a haka, a chanting dance of challenge, directed at their opponents.

A New Zealand parliamentary committee has recommended the unprecedented suspensions of three Māori lawmakers for performing a protest haka in the debating chamber last year. The haka is a ...

The committee denied the legislators were being punished for the haka — which is a beloved and sacred cultural institution in New Zealand life, but “the time at and manner in which it was ...