FACT CHECK: Was A Vote In New Zealand Parliament Stopped By Maori Haka Dancing?
A post on X claims that the first reading of a bill during a Parliamentary session in New Zealand was cancelled after Māori tribal representatives started doing a traditional Haka dance. Verdict: False The Māori’s delayed the bill’s first reading,
New Zealand lawmakers use haka to protest controversial bill
A vote in New Zealand’s parliament was suspended and two lawmakers were ejected on Thursday when a ringing haka began – a rhythmic Māori chant of challenge – over a controversial bill redefining the country’s founding agreement between Indigenous Māori and the British Crown.
The haka in parliament was part of a protest that has galvanized the nation. According to local media, an estimated 42,000 ...
A recent protest in New Zealand's Parliament in which lawmakers broke into a Haka—a traditional Maori dance—has attracted ...
New Zealand's parliament witnessed a powerful protest as opposition MPs performed a haka to oppose a controversial bill. The ...
Māori lawmakers interrupted a New Zealand parliamentary vote with a Haka to protest a law that would erode the land and ...
Māori lawmakers performed a traditional haka dance to protest a New Zealand bill that could redefine the country's ...
Following her viral haka performance in New Zealand's parliament, Gen Z politician Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke has all eyes on ...
They arrived Tuesday to oppose a law that would reshape the county’s founding treaty between Indigenous Māori and the British ...
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