Indigenous Maori lawmakers disrupted New Zealand's parliament with a stirring "haka" dance, voicing opposition to a race ...

Parliament was briefly suspended on Thursday after Maori members performed a haka — a traditional ceremonial group dance — to disrupt the vote on a controversial bill.

Māori lawmakers performed a traditional haka dance to protest a New Zealand bill that could redefine the country's ...

New Zealand's youngest MP Hana-Rawhiti Kareariki Maipi-Clarke has once again grabbed the headlines after a video of her staging the traditional Maori dance and ripping up a copy of a contentious bill ...

Māori lawmakers interrupted a New Zealand parliamentary vote with a Haka to protest a law that would erode the land and ...

In an extraordinary display of unity and defiance, Maori MPs and spectators erupted into a powerful haka in New Zealand's parliament, protesting a controversial bill threatening Indigenous rights.

which is a war cry written in 1820 by a Maori chief Te Rauparaha. It was first performed by the All Blacks in 1888, but only at away matches until 1986. The Ka Mate Haka is also performed during ...

New Zealand captain Scott Barrett has warned England that Joe Marler has “loaded the gun” through his inflammatory comments on the Haka ... call for the pre-match Maori war dance to be ...

England rugby union star Joe Marler has walked back on his controversial comments about the haka - after receiving "an education" on the matter. "It's ridiculous," he initially wrote. "It's only ...

England prop Joe Marler has apologised after he called for the Haka to be scrapped ... Marler’s comments on the Maori war dance drew a furious backlash in New Zealand, while Robertson reacted ...

You knew we would end up discussing the haka at some point during this week – Joe Marler just decided to get the conversation started a little earlier with a verbal “grenade”, as Kevin Sinfield put it ...

Haka are ritual war dances that form a significant part of indigenous Maori culture, and for decades have been closely associated with the All Blacks, one of rugby union's leading international teams.