Speaker Gerry Brownlee has 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 for performing a haka during a critical vote on the Treaty Principles Bill.
Brownlee labelled their actions as “disorderly,” citing the disruption caused by MPs leaving their seats and approaching the bill’s promoter, David Seymour.
The haka, initiated by Maipi-Clarke, led to a temporary suspension of the House and criticism of her behaviour as “grossly disorderly.”
While Brownlee refrained from ruling on tikanga in Parliament, he said that MPs must not obstruct others. The move followed complaints from MPs across various parties, including NZ First and National.
The haka has sparked a nationwide debate, with Te Pāti Māori MPs defending their actions as a form of cultural expression and protest against what they call a “disgusting” bill.
Ngarewa-Packer criticised Brownlee for “stifling opposition”, while Maipi-Clarke asserted her actions reflected her “identity as Māori”.
David Seymour said the haka demonstrated a lack of effective debate from the bill’s opponents. The incident, viewed hundreds of millions of times on social media, has amplified public backlash against the bill, culminating in mass protests outside Parliament. Meanwhile, tensions remain high as Takuta Ferris, another Te Pāti Māori MP, is already before the Privileges Committee for unrelated allegations.
You are a joke/disgrace Brownlee.
Yup agreed.
Brownlee is a fool, as are the Te Pāti Māori racists.
Amplified public backlash against the bill?? umm quite the opposite really, who wants the maori radicals pushing their grifting agenda, 85% of NZ actually want to vote for it after the racist maori party organised protest.
I think it’s a great bill, equity doesn’t mean Māori 🤔
• Throw a loud and obnoxious tantrum, scream and shout, fling your toys out the cot, derail the entire meeting and stop anyone else from speaking.
•Claim the moral high ground because it’s your “culture”.
•Be gratuitously fawned over by the insufferable mainstream media and their audience of low info lemmings.
•Wonder why everybody else hates you.
Imagine one side in the wharenui getting up and doing a haka in the middle of a debate, and the other just shrugging their shoulders and saying “well, that’s tikanga”. Nah.
But, if they want to argue that the parliament is not a house worthy of that degree of respect, then they better be prepared to follow that stance all the way through.
Yes it was viewed millions of times and derided worldwide as a stone age war dance out of place in context and time.
Highlighting the Maori way of life pre European as savage warriors who cannibalised their enemies, who just happened to be their fellow men, in other parts of the Islands, of whatever name they called it, unknown to anyone, but known now throughout the world as New Zealand (so keep it that way). Not only ate their ‘ ‘enemies’ but kept slaves to be eaten as well!
It showed the brutslistic nature of this out moded culture of savagery to the rest of the world, where we saw a display of their type of fascist behavior to prevent the normal discourse of parliamentary debate, which colonisation brought to New Zealand and it’s people enabling democracy, giving a voice and freedom and peace to all it’s people, not just those with pure savagery and might but all men, and not long after that all women too.
Have some respect!
What a disgusting sight it was, to display such a brutal ritual, that now, no one has any respect for. To he condemned to the annals of history.
It only served to show the Treaty Principles Bill is ripe for action, and to once and for all settle a grave misunderstanding that there should be two separate societies.
What-nots on display
Primitive primeval beastly outlandish behavior
Further desecration defilement and erosion of the Sanhedrin Chambers after Ardern flooded it with Moslem’s following the Christchurch staged event
Tea Party Maori?
Wasted space infidel – Evil perfidious not to be trusted
Race is the issue
Race is everything
Pete Townshend of THE WHO notoriety made a comment once regarding Morris Dancers
He said they have been doing it for so long they have forgotten why they were doing it
Seems to be the same case with the haka
Watered down version from a watered down item🤔
A maori delicacy was once a baby on a stick
Finger lickin good
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moriori_genocide
Whatever words you want to use in whatever arrangement you want to put them in, it all leads to one thing. It’s all about taking money and resources to channel income into one race and not another.
Instead of saying black lives matter. Say all lives matter. But that isn’t true either. Some lives do not matter as much as others. As much as your children’s lives. As much as your parents lives.
We are not seeing anyone taking the knee for Maori for thinking they are special or above anyone else.
Maori do not have “I have a dream.” They have “I have a nightmare.” It is long past time this nation wakes up to it.
I am not racist. It is Maori who are racist.
If anything, this failure of National to accept truth and fact will lose National votes and win Act votes.
The priviledged maori functionarier afarid their cushy extortion money is not free-flowing anymore?
If these parlamentarians will not adhere to their own ettiquette, then who would be inspired to do that in society?
The end justifies the means?
The end justifies the means is a paraphrase of Machiavelli and Karl Marx. It means that if a goal is morally important enough, any method of getting it is acceptable. It was part of a political philosophy called consequentialism. The basic idea is that a policy can be judged by its outcome. All modern versions of consequentialism have to deal with the limitations necessary to prevent tyrants abusing this idea. And the maori elite stoops into that area.
But hey, we have ‘socialism’ and any rort has to be fought for, especially in times where free credit has been withdrawn by the international bankstyer cabal. And that rort is “the end” for them functionaries.
“Any means” means stepping back in time of racism.
And THAT is what global elite feeds of, that’s what THEY want. To divide and conquer.
Ah yep. Te Pāti Māori ethno-nazis up to their usual antics.
How embarrassing for NZ.