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  • 10/06/2025
New Zealand Parliament suspends three lawmakers for performing protest haka

The three politicians from New Zealand's Te Pāti Māori party performed the haka when asked if they supported a controversial bill looking to redefine the country's founding treaty with Māori people.

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00:00New Zealand's Parliament suspended three lawmakers who performed a Maori haka to protest a proposed law.
00:10The three performed a haka in Parliament in opposition of the widely unpopular and since defeated Treaty Principles Bill,
00:18which they say would reverse Indigenous rights.
00:22It sought to legally define the principles of the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi,
00:27signed between Maori leaders and the British Crown during New Zealand's colonization.

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