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Speaker refers MPs to Privileges Committee after haka disrupts House

"Disorderly"

Summarised by Centrist

Speaker Gerry Brownlee referred four MPs, including Labour’s Peeni Henare and Te Pāti Māori’s Debbie Ngarewa-Packer, Rawiri Waititi, and Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, to the Privileges Committee after a haka disrupted voting on the Treaty Principles Bill. Brownlee called their actions “disorderly” and ruled on the need for decorum. Te Pāti Māori MPs said the haka expressed Māori opposition to the bill.

Read more over at The NZ Herald

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