{"id":72141,"date":"2025-06-05T18:06:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T09:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/05\/new-zealand-mps-who-performed-haka-in-parliament-given-record-suspensions"},"modified":"2025-06-05T18:06:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T09:06:00","slug":"new-zealand-mps-who-performed-haka-in-parliament-given-record-suspensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72141","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand MPs who performed haka in parliament given record suspensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parliament votes to enact punishment after hours of fraught debate including attitudes towards M\u0101ori culture<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand legislators have voted to enact record parliamentary suspensions for three MPs who performed a M\u0101ori haka to protest against a controversial proposed law.<\/p>\n<p>Hana-R\u0101whiti Maipi-Clarke received a seven-day ban and the leaders of her political party, Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori (the M\u0101ori party), Debbie Ngarewa-Packer and Rawiri Waititi, were barred for 21 days. Three days had previously been the longest ban for a New Zealand MP.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/05\/new-zealand-mps-who-performed-haka-in-parliament-given-record-suspensions\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parliament votes to enact punishment after hours of fraught debate including attitudes towards M\u0101ori cultureNew Zealand legislators have voted to enact record parliamentary suspensions for three MPs who performed a M\u0101ori haka to protest against a contr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[41,503,897,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-indigenous-peoples","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\/72141","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72142,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72141\/revisions\/72142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}