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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 ...
Three New Zealand MPs suspended for performing haka in parliament - MPs criticise ban saying Māori would not be silenced ...
Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke received a seven-day ban and her colleagues from Te Pāti Māori, the Māori Party, Debbie ...
The three lawmakers, whose record suspensions last up to three weeks, drew global attention last year when they performed the ...
Is that the reason why we are being silenced? Are our voices shaking the core foundation of this house? The house we had no voice in building … We will never be silenced and we will never be lost," ...
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.