Parliament was briefly suspended on Thursday after Maori members performed a haka — a traditional ceremonial group dance — to ...

Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke of New Zealand’s Māori party rose and began a Haka, tearing a copy of the proposed law in half.

Māori lawmakers performed a traditional haka dance to protest a New Zealand bill that could redefine the country's ...

Māori lawmakers interrupted a New Zealand parliamentary vote with a Haka on Thursday to protest a proposed law that critics ...

A heated protest erupted in New Zealand’s parliament on Thursday as Maori lawmakers performed a haka to oppose a controversial bill aiming to redefine the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi.

The Treaty of Waitangi, considered New Zealand’s founding document, takes its name from the Bay of Islands location.

Lawmakers in New Zealand have suspend a vote on a law redefining the country’s founding agreement between Indigenous Māori and the British Crown after members of parliament start performing the Haka.

Te Pāti Māori’s extraordinary display of protest - interrupting the first vote on the Treaty Principles Bill - has highlighted the tension between Māori tikanga, or customs, and the rules of ...

New Zealand’s parliament was brought to a halt on Thursday as Maori MPs staged a haka protest on the floor over a ...

The indigenous Maori population, who make up a majority of the survivors of state care, are unhappy with PM’s apology.

A recent report said an estimated 200,000 people in state, foster and faith-based care suffered ‘unimaginable’ abuse over a ...