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New Zealand Parliament Suspended as Maori Lawmakers Perform Haka to Protest Bill
New Zealand’s Parliament was temporarily suspended on Thursday as Māori lawmakers performed a haka, a traditional group dance, demonstrating their community’s anger and fear over a bill that aims to reinterpret the country’s founding treaty with its Indigenous people.
Māori Lawmakers Perform Traditional Haka Dance to Protest New Zealand Bill
The Treaty of Waitangi, which is the focus of the proposed bill, dates back to 1840 and is considered New Zealand's founding document. The agreement was signed by Māori chiefs and the British monarchy and focused on rectifying wrongs done to the indigenous people when the country was colonized.
Maori MPs’ Haka Dance Suspends New Zealand Parliament
The New Zealand parliament was suspended on Thursday after Maori MPs performed the haka dance in protest of a bill.
New Zealanders are marching, performing haka to protest divisive bill
The Treaty Principles Bill seeks to revise New Zealand’s foundational agreement with Maori people and is hugely unpopular, with even the prime minister deriding it.
Moment New Zealand Maori MPs disrupt parliament with haka in protest against treaty bill
This is the moment New Zealand Maori MPs disrupt parliament with a haka to protest against a treaty bill. New Zealand’s parliament was briefly suspended on Thursday (14 November), after Maori members staged a haka to disrupt the vote on a contentious bill that could reinterpret an 184-year-old treaty between the British and Indigenous Maori.
Watch: New Zealand MPs perform haka in parliament to disrupt Maori rights debate
New Zealand’s parliament descended into chaos as Maori members staged a haka in protest against a bill that would “reinterpret” the country’s founding treaty.
New Zealand lawmakers perform Haka in parliament to protest controversial law
New Zealand's parliament was suspended and two lawmakers were ejected during a vote on a controversial proposed law redefining the country’s founding agreement between Indigenous Māori and the British Crown.
LIVE: New Zealand Maori MPs disrupt parliament with haka protests
New Zealand MPs performed the traditional Maori haka in Parliament, halting proceedings over a controversial treaty bill. The bill seeks to narrow the interpretation of the historic Treaty of Waitangi,
VIDEO: New Zealand Parliament Suspended As MPs Perform Haka In Protest Over Bill To Limit Maori Rights
A vote on the bill was suspended when opposition parties and people in the public gallery joined in the haka, led by Patri Maori MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, who also ripped up a copy of the bill.
New Zealand MPs disrupt parliament with haka to protest Indigenous treaty bill
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 and Indigenous Maori.
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 ...
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Maori MPs defy Indigenous bill with haka in New Zealand parliament
A contentious bill to reinterpret a 184-year-old treaty between the British and Indigenous Maori has triggered unique ...