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 ...

A New Zealand government committee on Wednesday recommended three Indigenous lawmakers be temporarily suspended from ...

Clarke, face suspension after performing a haka during a vote on the Treaty Principles Bill, which sought to redefine the ...

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.