WELLINGTON (Reuters) -New Zealand's parliament was suspended for a short period on Thursday when people in the public gallery broke into a haka, a traditional Maori dance, after the newest member of ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand's indigenous Maori minority went into elections Saturday inspired by Barack Obama's victory in the United States and with a chance of securing the balance of ...

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New Zealand's parliament was brought to a blood-curdling halt after one of its newly elected MPs burst into the traditional Maori haka dance - causing the session to be suspended. Oriini Kaipara, 42, ...

The party won all six seats in 1996 - but in later elections campaigned for them to be abolished. The party had no policy on the Maori seats last election. However, leader Winston Peters says the ...

For the past few months New Zealand’s Māori nationalist Te Pāti Māori (Māori Party) has been consumed with a bitter internal power struggle, which may well result in a split. Maori Party co-leaders ...

The tight relationship between the two peoples predates the founding of New Zealand in 1840, and the Maori case for self-determination draws parallels with Zionism. Kiwi journalist David Cohen reports ...