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England face New Zealand at Twickenham this weekend and fans inside the ground will have the opportunity to witness their famous haka. Haka are traditional ceremonial dances that originate from native ...

A performance of the haka brought proceedings to a sudden halt in New Zealand’s Parliament. Te Pāti Māori’s Oriini Kaipara delivered her maiden speech on Thursday after being elected to fill a vacant ...

New Zealand Parliament was dramatically halted after Te Pāti Māori MP Oriini Kaipara delivered her powerful maiden speech and members of the public gallery broke into an unplanned haka. The emotional ...

WELLINGTON – New Zealand’s Parliament was suspended for a short period on Oct 9 when people in the public gallery broke into a haka, a traditional Maori dance, after the newest MP for the Maori party ...

WELLINGTON, Oct 9 (Reuters) - New Zealand's parliament was suspended for a short period on Thursday when people in the public gallery broke into a haka, a traditional Maori dance, after the newest ...

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 ...

From today, Te Pāti Māori co-leaders, Rawiri Waititi and Debbie Ngarewa-Packer and Hauraki Waikato MP, Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, MPs have been given the harshest ever punishment by the Privileges ...

The New Zealand legislators on Thursday voted to enact record suspensions from Parliament for three lawmakers who performed a Māori haka to protest a proposed law, reported AP. According to the report ...