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Lawmakers stage Maori protest in New Zealand's parliament

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 seeking to reinterpret the country's founding treaty with Māori people. Opposition party MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke began the ...

The New York Times · 1h

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.

The Hindu · 2h

New Zealand lawmakers stage Maori protest in Parliament during fraught race relations debate

New Zealand parliament erupts in dramatic political theater over controversial bill redefining Indigenous Maori rights.

Time8h

Māori Lawmakers in New Zealand’s Disrupt Parliament With Protest ‘Haka’

Work has involved billion-dollar land settlements, embrace of the Māori language, guaranteed representation in central and ...

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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 ...

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What is the Treaty of Waitangi and why is it sparking huge Māori protests in New Zealand?

Activists are protesting proposed changes to New Zealand's foundational document, the Treaty of Waitangi. But is the bill ...

6hon MSN

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 ...

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