Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke received a seven-day ban and her colleagues from Te Pāti Māori, the Māori Party, Debbie ...

That is the harshest penalty ever assigned to New Zealand politicians; the previous record was three days. This month, Parliament Speaker Gerry Brownlee scheduled a rare, unlimited debate in ...

New Zealand's parliament agreed on historically lengthy suspensions for three Indigenous lawmakers who last year performed a ...

But one haka performed in protest in New Zealand’s Parliament by three legislators last November has provoked fierce division among lawmakers about whether it was an act of peaceful dissent ...

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 ...

How Uproar Over a Māori Haka, Beloved in New Zealand Life, Sowed Chaos and Gridlock in Parliament WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The haka, a chanting dance of challenge, is sacred to New ...