In an extraordinary display of unity and defiance, Maori MPs and spectators erupted into a powerful haka in New Zealand's parliament, protesting a controversial bill threatening Indigenous rights.

The New Zealand Parliament was suspended after Maori members staged a haka to disrupt the vote on a contentious bill to reinterpret an 184-year-old treaty between the British and Indigenous Maori. The controversial legislation is seen by many Maori and their supporters as undermining the rights of the country’s Indigenous people,