The moment was reminiscent of last year, when young parliamentarian, Hana-Rawhiti Kareariki Maipi-Clarke broke into a Haka ...

A candlelit vigil and mass haka for the conservative US activist Charlie Kirk, organised by the Destiny Church leader, Brian Tamaki, has begun in Auckland’s CBD. Starting at 7pm, the vigil drew a ...

AIKEN — George Funeral Home & Cremation Center is closed following the State Board of Funeral Service’s denial of a change in ownership and the board’s determination that the funeral home may not ...

Haka are traditional ceremonial dances that originate from native Maori culture in New Zealand. Both the men's 'All Blacks' and women's 'Black Ferns' New Zealand rugby teams perform their own unique ...

The median cost of a traditional funeral with burial and viewing is about $8,300, according to a 2023 report from the National Funeral Directors Association, the most recent data available. Cremation ...

Critics saw the bill as retracting special rights given to the country's 900,000-strong Maori people. New Zealand's parliament on Thursday handed record-long suspensions to three Indigenous Maori ...

Three New Zealand MPs have been suspended for performing a haka in parliament. They say they have been punished for being Māori. A parliamentary privilege committee had recommended the suspension. New ...

New Zealand legislators voted on Thursday (June 5, 2025) to enact record suspensions from Parliament for three lawmakers who performed a Māori haka to protest a proposed law. Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke ...

Three Indigenous Māori MPs have received record suspensions from New Zealand's parliament after performing a haka on the chamber floor last year. The MPs were protesting a controversial bill that ...

New Zealand’s parliament agreed on historically lengthy suspensions for three Indigenous legislators who last year performed a haka, a traditional Maori dance, disrupting the reading of a ...

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.