When it comes to deciding which members’ bills are debated in Parliament, New Zealand relies on an unconventional yet ...

In New Zealand’s Parliament, every legislator has the chance to advance a proposed law, no matter how unpopular, thanks to an ...

Three New Zealand lawmakers from Te Pāti Māori, the Māori Party, will receive temporary bans from Parliament and severe censure, it was announced Wednesday, over their protest of a proposed law by ...

A New Zealand parliamentary committee has recommended the unprecedented suspensions of three Māori lawmakers for performing a protest haka in the debating chamber ...

Three Maori Party MPs will be temporarily banned from New Zealand’s ... rights and holds six of Parliament’s 123 seats, have for weeks lambasted the committee’s process as intolerant of ...

“The process was grossly unjust ... that Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke, who at 22 is New Zealand’s youngest lawmaker, be suspended from Parliament for seven days. The co-leaders of her political ...

“This was not about process, this became personal.” The report recommended that Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke, who at 22 is New Zealand’s youngest lawmaker, be suspended from Parliament for ...

The Maori party criticizes the process. The bill sparked controversy over Maori rights. Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke, New Zealand's youngest lawmaker was suspended from parliament for 7 days (Image ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP ... advocates Māori rights and holds six of Parliament’s 123 seats, have for weeks lambasted the committee’s process as intolerant of Māori principles ...