New Zealand’s parliament voted to hand out record suspensions to three Indigenous Māori MPs for performing the haka to protest a controversial law. Māori Party co-leaders Rawiri Waititi and Debbie ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand legislators voted Thursday to enact record suspensions from Parliament for three lawmakers who performed a Māori haka to protest a proposed law. Hana-Rāwhiti ...

Three Māori lawmakers in New Zealand received record suspensions of up to three weeks on Thursday over a protest haka they performed in Parliament last year against a contentious bill. The lawmakers ...

It is 20 years since the All Blacks first performed the Kapa o Pango version of the haka. It remains a controversial iteration, with the final movement involving a motion where the players’ hands are ...

WELLINGTON (Reuters) -New Zealand's parliament was suspended for a short period on Thursday when people in the public gallery broke into a haka, a traditional Maori dance, after the newest member of ...

It's what representing their country is all about — walking out in New Zealand's All Blacks jersey, facing their opposition, and delivering a spine-tingling, hair-raising Haka before the whistle blows ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- New Zealand legislators voted Thursday to enact record suspensions from Parliament for three lawmakers who performed a Māori haka to protest a proposed law.

New Zealand lawmakers, Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke, center at second row, Debbie Ngarewa-Packer, center in front row, and Rawiri Waititi, bottom right, who received lengthy suspensions from Parliament ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand legislators voted Thursday to enact record suspensions from Parliament for three lawmakers who performed a Māori haka to protest a proposed law. Hana-Rāwhiti ...