Treaty Principles Bill haka highlights tensions between Māori tikanga and rules of Parliament
Te Pāti Māori's extraordinary display of protest - interrupting the first vote on the Treaty Principles Bill - has highlighted the tension between Māori tikanga, or customs, and the rules of Parliament. The suspension of Parliament over a haka and the national hīkoi by thousands of people are garnering international headlines.
Māori Party halts Parliament over Treaty Bill
Te Pāti Māori and Hauraki Waikato MP Hana Rawhiti Maipi-Clark temporarily halted Parliament’s passage of the first reading of the controversial Treaty Principles Bill yesterday. Following speeches, parties were asked to cast their votes.
Haka erupts in New Zealand parliament over controversial bill
A group of New Zealand MPs broke into a spirited haka in the country's parliament this week, interrupting a vote on a controversial bill in spectacular fashion. The Treaty Principles Bill, brought by ACT leader David Seymour,
Watch: Haka interrupts vote for the Treaty Principles Bill
As Opposition MPs and the public gallery stood to perform Ka Mate, Speaker Gerry Brownlee suspended the sitting.
Haka interrupts NZ parliament, MPs kicked out, as treaty bill arrives
Led by Te Pāti Māori MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, opposition MPs and members of the public gallery brought parliament to a halt on Thursday afternoon as she ripped a copy of the Treaty Principles Bill, and MPs and the public stood to perform the haka Ka Mate.
Watch: New Zealand's youngest MP stirs Parliament with Māori 'haka' call, tears up controversial bill
New Zealand's parliament witnessed dramatic scenes as a controversial bill proposing to redefine the country's founding treaty between Māori and the British Crown passed its first vote. The bill, facing widespread opposition and protests,
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.
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