Broken down by voting preferences, more than half of Labour's supporters (51.2 percent) backed leader Chris Hipkins' view the suspensions were too harsh, but a sizeable number thought the punishment ...

New Zealand legislators have voted to enact record suspensions from Parliament for three lawmakers who performed a Māori haka to protest a proposed law. Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke on Thursday ...

The New Zealand First leader called Tākuta Ferris a "dickhead" in the House, but is questioning whether the word is offensive ...

Gerry Brownlee was one of the driving forces behind the construction of the Apollo Projects Stadium in the wake of the Canterbury Earthquakes.

New Zealand legislators voted Thursday to enact record suspensions from Parliament for three lawmakers who performed a Māori haka to protest a proposed law.

The speaker, Gerry Brownlee, temporarily stopped the session, and Ms. Maipi-Clarke was suspended for a day over the protest, which Mr. Brownlee described as disrespectful. Video.

Ahead of his election as Speaker, Brownlee wasn’t saying whether he would go of his own accord or would be dragged to the chair. Labour MP Adrian Rurawhe was Speaker of Parliament until the ...

But the punishment was so severe that Parliament Speaker Gerry Brownlee in April ordered a free-ranging debate among lawmakers and urged them to attempt to reach a consensus on what ...

But the punishment was so severe that Parliament Speaker Gerry Brownlee in April ordered a free-ranging debate among lawmakers and urged them to attempt to reach a consensus on what ...

Speaker Gerry Brownlee urged lawmakers last month to negotiate a consensus and ordered a free-ranging debate that would continue until all agreed to put the sanctions to a vote.

But the punishment was so severe that Parliament Speaker Gerry Brownlee in April ordered a free-ranging debate among lawmakers and urged them to attempt to reach a consensus on what ...

Speaker Gerry Brownlee urged lawmakers last month to negotiate a consensus and ordered a free-ranging debate that would continue until all agreed to put the sanctions to a vote.