New Zealand’s Parliament on Thursday suspended three Māori lawmakers for staging a protest that included performing the haka, a traditional Māori dance, in opposition to a controversial bill. Rawiri ...

In an unprecedented move that has sparked a remarkable debate on parliamentary decorum and free expression, New Zealand’s Parliament suspended three lawmakers from the Māori Party for performing a ...

New Zealand's parliament agreed on historically lengthy suspensions for three Indigenous lawmakers who last year performed a ...

New Zealand legislators voted Thursday to enact record suspensions from Parliament for three lawmakers who performed a Māori ...

The harsh penalty was handed down to three members of the opposition who said they were voicing their community’s displeasure with proposed legislation.

The haka drew global headlines and provoked months of fraught debate among lawmakers about what the consequences for the lawmakers' actions should be.

New Zealand’s Parliament suspended three opposition lawmakers, Rawiri Waititi, Debbie Ngarewa-Packer, and Hana-Rawhiti ...

Packer, Rawiri Waititi, and Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke — have been given the strongest punishment ever seen in New Zealand’s ...