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 interrupted a New Zealand parliamentary vote with a Haka to protest a law that would erode the land and ...

Clarke's viral protest inside New Zealand's parliament was an objection to a piece of legislation that is "looking for a ...

The controversial Treaty Principles Bill would end the Māori right of self-determination outlined in a nearly 200-year-old ...

Peters entered New Zealand’s parliament in 1978 as a member of the centre-right National Party, but became increasingly ...

The Treaty of Waitangi, which is the focus of the proposed bill, dates back to 1840 and is considered New Zealand's founding ...

The New Zealand Parliament is gathering public submissions for a proposed piece of legislation seeking to make pay secrecy ...

Indigenous Maori lawmakers disrupted New Zealand's parliament with a stirring "haka" dance, voicing opposition to a race ...

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

Speaker of Parliament Gerry Brownlee condemned the interruption as "grossly disorderly," clearing onlookers from the public ...

In the most-viewed haka video of all time, political party Te Pāti Māori's lawmaker Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke ripped up a ...

Her comments come after Prime Minister Christopher Luxon called the bill “simplistic” and “unhelpful”, and former Treaty Negotiations Minister Chris Finlayson — who negotiated more settlements than ...