As parliamentarians gathered for a preliminary vote on the bill on Thursday, Te Pāti Māori MPs physically tore a copy of the bill, stood and began a haka.
New Zealand Parliament was suspended on Thursday after a group of Māori MPs began a haka in protest over a contentious bill.
The landmark vote on the bill that would reinterpret a 184-year-old treaty between the British and Indigenous Māori was set to start on Thursday. Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, the MP for Hauraki Waikato, began the haka after physically tearing up the bill in parliament.
Haka New Zealand Parliament Maori Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke
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