Rawiri Waititi, a co-leader of New Zealand's Maori Party, is pictured in this still from video posted to Facebook. (Image courtesy of Maoriparty.org via Courthouse News) Rawiri Waititi, a co-leader of ...

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. Members of ...

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand male lawmakers are no longer required to wear a necktie in parliament after the rule was dropped following a Maori MP's protest, calling a tie a 'colonial noose'.

New Zealand's parliamentary proceedings came to a halt when people in the public gallery broke into a haka, a traditional Maori dance, after the newest lawmaker from the Maori Party, Oriini Kaipara, ...

WELLINGTON (Reuters) – New Zealand male lawmakers are no longer required to wear a necktie in parliament after the rule was dropped following a Maori MP’s protest, calling a tie a ‘colonial noose’.

New Zealand's parliament backed down Wednesday after ejecting a Maori lawmaker because he refused to wear a tie, allowing him to speak without an accessory he labelled a "colonial noose". The issue ...

New Zealand's parliament backed down Wednesday after ejecting a Maori lawmaker because he refused to wear a tie, allowing him to speak without an accessory he labelled a "colonial noose". The Barron's ...