WELLINGTON: New Zealand’s parliament on Thursday handed record-long suspensions to three Indigenous Maori lawmakers who last year staged a protest haka on the debating floor. Maori Party co ...

Three Maori MPs have been suspended from New Zealand’s parliament for performing a haka during a sitting last year. On Thursday, the legislature voted to ban Rawiri Waititi and Debbie Ngarewa ...

New Zealand's parliament on Thursday handed record-long suspensions to three Indigenous Maori lawmakers who last year staged a protest haka on the debating floor.

Three Māori lawmakers in New Zealand received record suspensions of up to three weeks Thursday over a protest haka they performed against a contentious bill in Parliament last year.

In New Zealand, our Maori people have many sayings or whakatauki. "I walk backward into the future with my eyes fixed on my past" for example. They deliberately look to the past, to inform the future.

There is a well-known whakatauki (Maori proverb) that goes: “Ka mua, ka muri” – “walking backwards into the future”. It applies to many areas of life, but in education the idea of ...

The time and the effort that one puts in farming, by working under the sun and in the mud, can sometimes be futile once a big typhoon comes" "TURN your face to the sun, and shadows follow behind you" ...

Five years in the making, Marlon Williams's fourth solo album was guided by the Māori whakatauki (proverb), "Ko te reo Māori, he matapihi ki te ao Māori". It translates to "The Māori language ...

A controversial bill that had set off New Zealand ’s largest-ever Maori rights protest was heavily defeated in parliament on Thursday. The Treaty Principles Bill died in its second reading ...

Every Monday, here on Nights, to set the tone for the week, we have a guest on to share a whakatauki - a Maori proverb - that's meaningful to them. Tonight, Tuakoi Ohia (of Ngāti Hine, Ngaiterangi, ...

The Maori hold out the Indigenous to win a low-scoring men's All Stars clash, hours after the Indigenous claimed a last-gasp win in the women's clash through a late penalty.

Every Monday to start our week off on here Nights, we invite a guest on the show to share a whakataukī - a Maori proverb - that's meaningful to them. Tonight we're talking to Roimata Smail (Ngāti ...