The three lawmakers, whose record suspensions last up to three weeks, drew global attention last year when they performed the ...

Three Maori MPs face suspension from New Zealand's Parliament over performing a haka to protest the Treaty Principles Bill. The parliamentary privileges committee recommended suspensions for ...

Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke derailed parliament in November when she ripped a copy of the proposed laws. Indigenous Maori lawmakers have decried a push to temporarily banish them from New Zealand's ...

Maori Party MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, 22, derailed parliament in November when she ripped a copy of the proposed laws in half while performing a spirited traditional chant. She was joined by ...

The recommendations were the latest twist in the fraught saga over the Bill, now defeated, that opponents said would have provoked constitutional havoc and reversed decades of progress for Maori, ...

Indigenous Maori lawmakers have decried a push to temporarily banish them from New Zealand's parliament, after disrupting the reading of a contentious race relations bill with a protest haka.

The proposed law sought to redefine the terms of the nation’s founding treaty between Maori tribes and the British crown signed 180 years ago. The bill gained wide attention after a video of the ...

April 10 (UPI) --New Zealand's Parliament Thursday rejected a bill targeting Maori rights that sparked protests. The Treaty Principles Bill was voted down 112-11 after a government committee ...

But the Maori musician, one of Aotearoa’s most successful musical exports, traverses more than geography. He lays out his transience unaccompanied, in his famously rich timbre, at the opening of ...

The speaker of New Zealand’s parliament has told lawmakers he will not consider further complaints about the use of the country’s Maori name, Aotearoa, in parliament after Foreign Minister ...

The Maori have claimed an attritional and gutsy 10-6 All Stars rugby league win over the Indigenous in the men's clash, hours after the Indigenous women had pulled off a thrilling late win of ...

Since taking office last year, New Zealand’s right-wing coalition government has faced unprecedented protests over its Maori policies, prompting large gatherings of Maori leaders and sharp ...