Three members of the Maori Party faced suspension after performing a haka during a vote. The protest was against the Treaty Principles Bill. The bill aimed to reinterpret New Zealand’s founding document.

A group of Indigenous Maori lawmakers could soon be banned from New Zealand’s parliament after staging a haka protest against a divisive race relations bill, drawing sharp condemnation and reigniting debates over indigenous rights.

Indigenous Maori politicians have decried a push to temporarily suspend them from New Zealand's parliament, after disrupting the reading of a contentious race relations bill with a protest haka.