{"id":74463,"date":"2025-05-15T11:14:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T06:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=74463"},"modified":"2025-05-15T11:14:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T06:14:36","slug":"new-zealand-to-suspend-maori-lawmakers-for-protest-haka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/new-zealand-to-suspend-maori-lawmakers-for-protest-haka\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand to suspend Maori lawmakers for protest haka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SYDNEY: Indigenous Maori lawmakers have rejected a push to temporarily expel them from <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/new-zealand-dominates-pakistan-with-a-115-run-victory-to-secure-t20-series\/\">New Zealand<\/a>\u2019s parliament after they disrupted the reading of a controversial race relations bill with a protest haka.<\/p>\n<p>Maori Party MP Hana-Rawhiti Mapi-Clark, 22, derailed parliament in November when she tore a copy of the proposed laws in half while chanting a passionate traditional chant.<\/p>\n<p>She was joined by party co-leaders Rawiri Waititi and Debbie Ngariwa Packer, who marched to the floor of the chamber chanting the ka mate haka made famous by the country\u2019s All Blacks rugby team.<\/p>\n<p>A parliamentary committee on Wednesday evening recommended suspending Waititi and Ngariwa Packer for three weeks and Mapi-Clark for seven days.<\/p>\n<p>The Maori Party said it was one of the harshest punishments ever handed down in New Zealand\u2019s parliament.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the T\u0101nta resist, colonial powers reach for maximum punishment,\u201d the party said in a statement, using a phrase for the Maori people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a warning shot for us all to fall in line.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters described the three as \u201cout-of-control MPs who flout the rules and intimidate others with provocative chants.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Parliament will vote on the suspension next week, although it is widely expected to pass.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cTreaty Principles Bill\u201d sought to reinterpret New Zealand\u2019s founding document, which was signed between Maori chiefs and British representatives in 1840.<\/p>\n<p>Many critics saw the bill as an attempt to roll back special rights granted to the country\u2019s 900,000-strong Maori population.<\/p>\n<p>The bill was rejected by parliament last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SYDNEY: Indigenous Maori lawmakers have rejected a push to temporarily expel them from New Zealand\u2019s parliament after they disrupted the reading of a controversial race relations bill with a protest haka. Maori Party MP Hana-Rawhiti Mapi-Clark, 22, derailed parliament in November when she tore a copy of the proposed laws in half while chanting a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":74464,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[516,28716],"class_list":["post-74463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-new-zealand","tag-maori-lawmakers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74465,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74463\/revisions\/74465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}