New Zealand's parliament was briefly suspended on Thursday after Maori members staged a haka to disrupt the vote on a contentious bill that would reinterpret a 184-year-old treaty between the British ...

New Zealand's parliament was brought to a temporary halt by MPs performing a haka, amid anger over a controversial bill seeking to reinterpret the country's founding treaty with Māori people.

Timed to coincide with the first reading of the contentious Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill on Thursday, the hikoi and other similar protests are a response to what many perceive as a ...

Thanks to the sudden collapse of the government in October and a breach of protocol by the Independence Party, whaling is looming large again.

Twenty-two-year-old lawmaker Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke ripped up a copy of the bill and led the haka in parliament as other ...

New Zealand's parliament was briefly suspended on Thursday after Maori members staged a haka to disrupt the vote on a ...

New Zealand's indigenous community is rallying against a proposed bill that could strangle state support and stoke anti-Maori ...

This is the moment New Zealand Maori MPs disrupt parliament with a haka to protest against a treaty bill. New Zealand’s ...

While the bill will almost certainly fail, its introduction has inflamed racial tensions in New Zealand where Maori make up about 20% of the country's 5.3 million people. The protest will hold a ...

Maori groups begin a nine-day march for indigenous ... who make up about 20% of the country's 5.3 million people. The protest group is marching across the country, from the tip of the North ...

While the bill will almost certainly fail, its introduction has inflamed racial tensions in New Zealand where Maori make up about 20% of the country's 5.3 million people. The protest will hold a large ...