{"id":71804,"date":"2025-05-15T10:34:46","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T01:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/15\/new-zealand-mps-haka-parliament-suspended"},"modified":"2025-05-15T10:34:46","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T01:34:46","slug":"new-zealand-mps-who-performed-haka-in-parliament-given-unprecedented-punishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71804","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand MPs who performed haka in parliament given unprecedented punishment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori co-leaders and youngest member to be temporarily suspended from parliament after performance protesting controversial bill<\/p>\n<p>Three New Zealand MPs who performed a haka in parliament will be temporarily suspended, in what is believed to be the harshest ever penalty issued to parliamentarians.<\/p>\n<p>The co-leaders of Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori (the M\u0101ori Party) Debbie Ngarewa-Packer and Rawiri Waititi, and the party\u2019s youngest member, Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, performed the traditional M\u0101ori dance during a vote on the controversial <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/07\/treaty-of-waitangi-new-zealand-founding-document-changes-bill\">Treaty Principles Bill<\/a> during its first reading in November.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/15\/new-zealand-mps-haka-parliament-suspended\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori co-leaders and youngest member to be temporarily suspended from parliament after performance protesting controversial billThree New Zealand MPs who performed a haka in parliament will be temporarily suspended, in what is believed to be th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,897,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-maori","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71806,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71804\/revisions\/71806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}