Wellington: Indigenous Maori lawmakers disrupted New Zealand s parliament with a stirring haka dance, voicing opposition to a ...
Speaker of Parliament Gerry Brownlee condemned the interruption as "grossly disorderly," clearing onlookers from the public ...
Clarke, New Zealand’s youngest MP, made headlines once again by performing a haka and tearing up a copy of the Treaty ...
The New Zealand parliament was suspended on Thursday after Maori MPs performed the haka dance in protest of a bill.
Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke of New Zealand’s Māori party rose and began a Haka, tearing a copy of the proposed law in half.
Following Maipi-Clarke ringing haka – a rhythmic Maori chant of challenge, it led to a roar from the opposition lawmakers and ...
The Treaty of Waitangi, which is the focus of the proposed bill, dates back to 1840 and is considered New Zealand's founding ...
Māori lawmakers interrupted a New Zealand parliamentary vote with a Haka to protest a law that would erode the land and ...
Approximately 10,000 protesters marched through Rotorua, New Zealand, voicing their opposition to the Treaty Principles Bill. As they made their way south towards the capital, Wellington, they were ...
Once again, Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke has gone viral as her protest in New Zealand protest hogged limelight. Maipi-Clarke ...
The protest in the form of a Haka dance was joined by her party members to disrupt the vote on the contentious bill. The bill aimed at re-interpreting an 184-year-old treaty between the British and ...
On Thursday, New Zealand’s Maori lawmakers disrupted Parliament by performing a traditional haka, protesting legislation that would threaten their constituents’ rights. Per the New York Times, the ...