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Barry Soper: Today's events in Parliament were a mess

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Thu, 14 Nov 2024, 5:52pm
Senior Labour MP Willie Jackson walking out after being told to leave the House by The Speaker during the first reading of the Treaty Principles Bill, Parliament, Wellington, 14 November, 2024. NZME photograph by Mark Mitchell
Senior Labour MP Willie Jackson walking out after being told to leave the House by The Speaker during the first reading of the Treaty Principles Bill, Parliament, Wellington, 14 November, 2024. NZME photograph by Mark Mitchell

Barry Soper: Today's events in Parliament were a mess

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Thu, 14 Nov 2024, 5:52pm

A Te Pati Māori MP has been suspended from Parliament for kicking off a deafening haka in protest of the Treaty Principles Bill. 

Opposition MPs and people in the public gallery joined in, interrupting a vote on the legislation and forcing the Speaker to clear the House.

Newstalk ZB senior political correspondent Barry Soper says today's events were a mess.

"I've never seen anything like it in more than 40 years of covering Parliament - the Speaker lost control, by no fault of his own."

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