Three New Zealand lawmakers from Te Pāti Māori, the Māori Party, will receive temporary bans from Parliament and severe ...

A New Zealand parliamentary committee has recommended the unprecedented suspensions of three Māori lawmakers for performing a ...

The Privileges Committee recommended that co-leaders of Te Pati Maori, Debbie Ngarewa-Packer and Rawiri Waititi, be suspended ...

Haka Protests? Drama in New Zealand as Parliament Slaps Down Maori MPs in Harshest Action Yet ...

The committee denied the legislators were being punished for the haka — which is a beloved and sacred cultural institution in New Zealand life, but “the time at and manner in which it was ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Three New Zealand lawmakers ... over their protest of a proposed law by performing a haka, a chanting dance of challenge, directed at their opponents.