The New Zealand Parliament was suspended after Maori members staged a haka to disrupt the vote on a contentious bill to reinterpret an 184-year-old treaty between the British and Indigenous Maori. The controversial legislation is seen by many Maori and their supporters as undermining the rights of the country’s Indigenous people,

The New Zealand parliament was suspended on Thursday after Maori MPs performed the haka dance in protest of a bill.

New Zealand's parliament was halted by MPs performing a haka on Thursday (Nov 14) in protest over a controversial bill which would reinterpret the country's founding treaty with the native Maori people.