Te Pāti Māori MPs Rawiri Waititi, Debbie Ngarewa-Packer and Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke were suspended for up to 21 days for breaching parliamentary conduct during a vote on the Treaty Principles Bill.
They interrupted a parliamentary vote and advanced on ACT MPs; their actions were described as “intimidating”.
Michael Forbes was Christopher Luxon’s acting deputy chief press secretary. Before that, he worked for Social Development Minister Louise Upston, a former Minister for Women.
Now he’s out of a job – accused of secretly recording sex workers, collecting photos of women at the gym, and filming others getting changed through windows.
Winston Peters ripped into Te Pāti Māori in a scathing speech, accusing the party of abusing tikanga to justify “anarchy” and attacking Parliament itself.
The New Zealand First leader said the party “don’t want democracy, they want anarchy,” after its MPs disrupted a vote on the Treaty Principles Bill with an unannounced haka.
Why was a Kiwi-Chinese journalist hit with a gag order after criticising a pro-CCP candidate?
That’s the question raised by Portia Mao’s ongoing legal battle – and the Free Speech Union says the real culprit is a broken law that’s enabling foreign interference.
ACT MP Laura McClure, who presented a fake nude image of herself in Parliament, said current laws are not deterring offenders from sharing sexually explicit deepfakes without consent, and urged swift reform.
But Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith says the government is not considering the bill “at this stage.”
