New Zealand's Youngest MP Performs Haka, Rips Apart Treaty Principles Bill In Parliament - VIDEO
The vote on the Treaty Principles Bill was interrupted on Thursday in new Zealand's Parliament after the country's youngest MP Hana-Rawhiti Kareariki Maipi-Clarke, staged traditional Maori dance and ripped apart a copy of a contentious bill.
Treaty Principles bill hīkoi pauses to gather steam, before march to Parliament
Tens of thousands of people from all around the country are expected to reach Parliament on Tuesday, in opposition to government policies affecting Māori. Hīkoi supporters are upbeat and positive as they used Monday's rest day to learn haka,
Protests erupt in New Zealand over Treaty Principles Bill
Nearly ten thousand people took to the streets in New Zealand to protest the introduction of the controversial Treaty Principles Bill in Parliament. Critics said the bill, if passed, could reverse the rights and other protection mechanisms for the Indigenous Māori people.
New Zealand dispatch: thousands join hīkoi in Auckland to oppose controversial Treaty Principles Bill
Thousands of marchers descended upon New Zealand’s largest city of Auckland on Wednesday as part of the Hīkoi mō te Tiriti (March for the Treaty of Waitangi) to call for Māori (New Zealand’s
New Zealand's indigenous Maori people march against Treaty Principles Bill
Thousands of people have joined a nine-day march to New Zealand's capital, Wellington, to protest a contentious bill that redefines the country's founding agreement between the British and the Indigenous Maori people,
New Zealand Parliament Member Performs Haka to Protest Indigenous Treaty Bill
A New Zealand parliament member performed the Haka as a form of protest against a controversial bill that could threaten the rights of the Maori tribe
Maori Protesters March on New Zealand Capital Over Contentious Bill
First signed in 1840 between the British Crown and more than 500 Maori chiefs, the treay lays down how the two parties agreed to govern. The interpretation of clauses in the docum
New Zealand MPs protest Indigenous treaty bill with haka during meeting
New Zealand's parliament was briefly suspended after Maori members staged a haka to disrupt the vote on an Indigenous rights bill.
Watch: New Zealand MPs stage haka protest against Indigenous treaty bill in parliament
New Zealand's parliament was briefly suspended on Thursday November 14 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.
New Zealanders Stage 'HAKA' Protest, march towards Wellington against Indigenous Treaty Bill
Thousands joined a march toward New Zealand's national capital on November 15 after a contentious Indigenous treaty bill. Several rallies protesting against the Treaties Bill are being staged in towns across the country as a nine-day march.
Thousands march on New Zealand capital against Indigenous treaty overhaul
New Zealand police reported that about 10,000 people marched through the town of Rotorua in protest against the Treaty Principles Bill on Friday, greeted by hundreds waving the Ma
Prime Minister, please end this silly Treaty Principles Bill fiasco – Anaru Eketone
Anaru Eketone is an associate professor in social and community work at the University of Otago and a columnist for the Otago ...
'Haughtiness and bitterness': David Seymour slates critics of Treaty Principles Bill
Act Party leader David Seymour has hit out at a former prime minister and ex-Treaty negotiations minister who have criticised ...
Who Is New Zealand's Youngest MP Whose Traditional Maori Dance Video Went Viral
A young New Zealand parliamentarian tore a copy of the controversial Indigenous Treaty Principles Bill on the floor of the ...
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 ...
Lawmakers stage Māori protest in New Zealand’s parliament during fraught race relations debate
A vote in New Zealand’s parliament was suspended and two lawmakers ejected Thursday amid debate over a controversial proposed ...
"Do not negate 184 years of debate": Bill rolling back Māori rights in New Zealand faces backlash
The controversial Treaty Principles Bill would end the Māori right of self-determination outlined in a nearly 200-year-old ...
Jason Walls: Te Pāti Māori’s Treaty Principles Bill haka haunting Prime Minister Christopher Luxon at Apec
Jason Walls is Newstalk ZB’s political editor and has years of experience in radio and print, including in the Parliamentary ...
Treaty Principles Bill 'Inviting Civil War', Jenny Shipley Says
Former prime minister Dame Jenny Shipley has warned the ACT Party is "inviting civil war" with its attempt to define the ...