New Zealand's parliament on Thursday handed record-long suspensions to three Indigenous Maori lawmakers who last year staged a protest haka on the debating floor. Maori Party co-leaders Rawiri ...

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 and Te Pati Maori co-leader, Rawiri Waititi, talk to reporters following a protest inside parliament in Wellington, New Zealand, on November 14, 2024 [File: Charlotte ...

Maori Party MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke is one of the lawmakers who have been temporarily banished from New Zealand’s parliament. (AP pic) Indigenous Maori lawmakers have decried a push to ...

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 ...

Mt. Taranaki — now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Maori name — is the latest natural feature to be granted personhood in New Zealand, which has ruled that a river and a stretch of sacred land ...

A controversy is brewing in New Zealand, as thousands of Kiwis recently took to the streets to protest a bill that would legally define the country's founding treaty — a change that opponents ...

New Zealand's indigenous Maori people have expressed their opposition to a parliamentary bill that could alter their fate. The longstanding conflict between the Maori, who had controlled their ...

As the British Crown took control of New Zealand, it signed the Treaty of Waitangi (also called Te Tiriti o Waitangi or just Te Tiriti)-- the founding document with around 500 Maori chiefs ...

Tens of thousands of people have marched on New Zealand's parliament in a protest in support of Maori rights. The huge crowds took to the streets of Wellington in opposition to a law that could ...

New Zealand's parliament was suspended after Maori lawmakers performed a haka to interrupt a vote on a controversial bill. Maori lawmakers staged a dramatic protest in New Zealand's parliament on ...

While the march, or hikoi, was sparked by the bill currently before parliament, organisers want the march to ignite a broader conversation about New Zealand's relationship to Maori, he said.