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Haka, Māori and New Zealand

Māori lawmakers in New Zealand interrupt vote on controversial bill with Haka

Māori lawmakers interrupted a New Zealand parliamentary vote with a Haka to protest a law that would erode the land and cultural rights of Indigenous New Zealanders.

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Māori Lawmakers in New Zealand Resist Proposed Bill With Haka Protest

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

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Maori haka in NZ parliament to protest at bill to reinterpret founding treaty

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.

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A House divided, a leader nowhere in sight

Analysis: A fiery haka, MPs suspended from the House, and a Treaty Principles Bill one step closer to its death The post A ...

House suspended as haka interrupts first reading of the Treaty Principles Bill

Speaker Gerry Brownlee has suspended the House of Representatives after a haka, led by Te Pāti Māori and performed by members ...

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The House: Being hoist on a petard, and hoping to ban them

The New Zealand Gazette. "Under section 134(1) of the Electoral Act 1993, I, Gerard Anthony Brownlee, Speaker of the ...

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