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New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said Wednesday that his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu has “lost the ...
In New Zealand, a lawmaker with the Green Party has been ejected twice from New Zealand’s Parliament in recent days for ...
A New Zealand lawmaker who was thrown out of Parliament for calling her opponents spineless during a fiery debate about a ...
The suspension of Māori members following a haka protest in Parliament highlights enduring tensions in New Zealand’s ...
New Zealand parliamentarian Chloe Swarbrick was ordered to leave parliament on Tuesday during a heated debate over the ...
Updated: May 23, 2025 / 06:46 AM EDT WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Under the scrutiny of a black-robed official and before a hushed audience, a decorative cookie tin rattles like a bingo drum.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A veiled woman burst screaming from an elevator. The small crowd gathered in a basement corridor of New Zealand ’s parliament drew back nervously.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- New Zealand legislators voted Thursday to enact record suspensions from Parliament for three lawmakers who performed a Māori haka to protest a proposed law.
Well-known in New Zealand is the story of William Larnach, a politician who in 1898 was found dead in a room at parliament with a revolver in his hand while experiencing financial and family strife.
The decorative cookie tin, known in New Zealand as the biscuit tin, which was purchased from a department store in the early 1990s to draw lawmakers' bills from and remains in use, at Parliament ...
A tour guide at New Zealand’s Parliament gives a spooky tour of the historical Parliament library, built in 1883 and rumored to be haunted, in Wellington, Thursday, March 20, 2025.