SYDNEY: Indigenous Maori lawmakers have decried a push to briefly banish them from New Zealand’s parliament, after disrupting the studying of a contentious race relations Invoice with a protest haka.
Maori Celebration MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, 22, derailed parliament in November when she ripped a replica of the proposed legal guidelines in half whereas performing a spirited conventional chant.
She was joined by get together co-leaders Rawiri Waititi and Debbie Ngarewa-Packer, who strode onto the chamber flooring chanting the Ka Mate haka famously carried out by the nation’s All Blacks rugby staff.
A parliamentary committee on Wednesday (Could 14) night beneficial suspending Waititi and Ngarewa-Packer for 3 weeks, and Maipi-Clarke for seven days.
The Maori Celebration stated it was one of many harshest punishments ever doled out in New Zealand’s parliament.
“When tangata whenua resist, colonial powers attain for the utmost penalty,” the get together stated in an announcement, utilizing a phrase for Maori individuals.
“It is a warning shot to all of us to fall in line.”
