Clarke, has gone viral once again after tearing up a controversial bill and performing the traditional Maori haka during a ...
The drama in the chambers kicked off when Te Pāti Māori MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke stood up mid-vote, powerfully ripping a ...
The Treaty Principles Bill seeks to revise New Zealand’s foundational agreement with Maori people and is hugely unpopular, ...
The Treaty of Waitangi, which is the focus of the proposed bill, dates back to 1840 and is considered New Zealand's founding ...
Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke of New Zealand’s Māori party rose and began a Haka, tearing a copy of the proposed law in half.
NZ MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke Breaks Into Haka Dance In Parliament In Protest Against Bill ...
Wellington, New Zealand - Indigenous Maori lawmakers disrupted New Zealand's parliament with a stirring "haka" dance, voicing ...
Māori lawmakers interrupted a New Zealand parliamentary vote with a Haka to protest a law that would erode the land and ...
Opposition lawmakers performed the haka during a reading of a bill that would redefine the country’s founding treaty with its Indigenous people.
New Zealand's parliament was briefly suspended on Thursday after Māori MPs performed a haka to disrupt a vote on a ...
But not before one final flashpoint. A rare outburst of protest When asked how her party’s lawmakers would vote, Hana-Rawhiti ...
The controversial Treaty Principles Bill would end the Māori right of self-determination outlined in a nearly 200-year-old ...