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Lawmakers stage Māori protest in New Zealand’s parliament during fraught race relations debate

A vote in New Zealand’s parliament was suspended and two lawmakers ejected Thursday amid debate over a controversial proposed law redefining the country’s founding agreement between Indigenous Māori and the British Crown.

The New York Times on MSN · 4h

New Zealand Parliament Suspended as Maori Lawmakers Perform Haka to Protest Bill

New Zealand’s Parliament was temporarily suspended on Thursday as Māori lawmakers performed a haka, a traditional group dance, demonstrating their community’s anger and fear over a bill that aims to reinterpret the country’s founding treaty with its Indigenous people.

CNN on MSN · 9h

New Zealand MPs disrupt parliament with haka

The New Zealand Parliament was suspended after Maori members staged a haka to disrupt the vote on a contentious bill to reinterpret an 184-year-old treaty between the British and Indigenous Maori. The controversial legislation is seen by many Maori and their supporters as undermining the rights of the country’s Indigenous people,

9dOpinion

Law & society: Should our Supreme Court address societal issues where Parliament has failed to do so?

Recent Supreme Court decisions that have sparked concern among legal scholars, practitioners and politicians are the subject ...

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Supreme Court will decide on MLA Barkman double status at hearing in Falklands

MLA Barkman next to King Charles III during a reception held at Buckingham Palace The Falkland Islands Supreme Court hearing ... from both sides about New Zealand citizenship law.

Associated Press on MSN3d

New Zealand’s leaders formally apologize to survivors of abuse in state and church care

The Australian24d

Who makes the law? Judicial activism and NZ’s Supreme Court

Twenty years have passed since New Zealand established its own Supreme Court, ending appeals to the Privy Council in London. Earlier this year, Jack Hodder KC, a respected lawyer who was ...

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