Its report recommended Ms Maipi-Clarke, who the committee said showed contrition in a letter, be suspended for seven days and ...

A haka performed by Maori MPs in protest of a proposed bill led to suspended Parliament proceedings in New Zealand and ...

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

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 ...

The haka, a chanting dance of challenge, is sacred to New Zealand's Maori people but it's become a beloved cultural institution among New Zealanders of all races. Spine-tingling performances at sports ...

A group of Indigenous Maori lawmakers could soon be banned from New Zealand’s parliament after staging a haka protest against a divisive race relations bill, drawing sharp condemnation and reigniting ...

The New Zealand MPs who protested constitutional reforms with the haka on the floor of parliament will receive suspensions believed to be the most severe ever issued in the institution’s 170-year ...

New Zealand traditionally always sang a song called Ka Mate, which is a war cry written in 1820 by a Maori chief Te Rauparaha. It was first performed by the All Blacks in 1888, but only at away ...

The Maori king is considered the paramount chief of several tribes, or iwi, but is not affiliated with all of them. The monarch’s role has no judicial or legal authority in New Zealand and is ...