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New Zealand’s foreign affairs minister Winston Peters earlier mocked Waititi for his traditional full-face Maori tattoo. “The Maori Party are a bunch of extremists, and middle New Zealand and ...
Three Maori MPs have been suspended from New Zealand’s parliament for performing a haka during a sitting last year. On Thursday, the legislature voted to ban Rawiri Waititi and Debbie Ngarewa ...
New Zealand's parliament has handed record-long suspensions to three Indigenous Maori lawmakers who last year staged a protest haka on the debating floor.
Maori Party co-leaders Rawiri Waititi and Debbie Ngarewa-Packer were each banned for 21 days, while Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, the youngest serving MP in New Zealand, received a seven-day suspension.
A New Zealander's traditional Maori tattoos have sparked something of an international incident, with a Japanese cabinet minister calling for the country to respect other cultures after the Kiwi ...
She said she got her moko in 2019 to remind herself of her identity as a Maori woman. “When I doubt myself, and I see my reflection in the mirror, I’m not just looking at myself,” she explained.
Guy Pearce described the tattoos he got filming "The Convert," in theaters and video-on-demand Friday, in New Zealand and discussed the sequel to "Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert." ...
A Maori war veteran was turned away from a pub in Perth, Australia, because of his face tattoos, despite him explaining the cultural significance behind them. By Hanisha Sethi, Royal Reporter ...
The Maori veteran said he was left feeling “embarrassed” after he was refused service at a popular pub over his traditional face tattoo, known as Mataora. Michael Barclay told A Current Affair ...
The Maori veteran said he was left feeling “embarrassed” after he was refused service at a popular pub over his traditional face tattoo, known as Mataora. Elena Couper 2 min read ...
The Maori veteran said he was left feeling “embarrassed” after he was refused service at a popular pub over his traditional face tattoo, known as Mataora.
The Maori veteran said he was left feeling “embarrassed” after he was refused service at a popular pub over his traditional face tattoo, known as Mataora.