Far be it that a British immigrant of Anglo-Saxon lineage who has never got around to taking out New Zealand citizenship should lecture a Maori Party MP on the dos and don'ts of politics.
Maverick Maori Party MP Hone Harawira won't be voting for the new foreshore and seabed legislation that his party fought for.
Michael Bassett says that Hone Harawira's racial purity ruminations are about two centuries too late.
Back in the late 1960s, the National Party's fierce liberal Ralph Hanan, minister of justice, attorney-general and minister of Maori affairs, ushered through Parliament the controversial Maori...
The Maori Party has kept a low profile over the arrest of anti-whaling campaigner Pete Bethune... until today.
Tensions and periodic tantrums are built into coalition politics, just as compromise and pragmatism are an essential part of a coalition leader's armoury.
Maverick Maori Party MP Hone Harawira has managed to make a gaffe on his second day back in Parliament since November, when he took enforced leave over a racially offensive email.
Prime Minister John Key yesterday raised for the first time the prospect of not repealing the Foreshore and Seabed Act if there is no agreement on what should replace it.
Maverick Maori MP Hone Harawira says while some may think he has had a bad year he's happy with what his party achieved.
Maori Party renegade Hone Harawira has returned to the fold after the party caucus decided to give him another chance.
Maori Party MP Hone Harawira is likely to remain in the party but may face a period of suspension from caucus, party co-leader Pita Sharples says.
The one politician to emerge safely from the Hone Harawira tragi-comedy has been Act New Zealand party leader, Rodney Hide.
A decision on MP Hone Harawira's future is expected to be announced by the Maori Party tomorrow.
Labour leader Phil Goff has stirred up a row with National and the Maori Party by accusing the Government of reopening racial wounds.
Embattled Maori MP Hone Harawira is taking legal advice about his future with the party from Auckland QC Peter Williams.
Hone Harawira's "white motherf..kers" comment has provoked 753 approaches to Race Relations Commissioner Joris de Bres, who says the vast majority complained they had been insulted.
Controversial MP Hone Harawira has again stressed his determination to stay with the Maori Party, but admits "serious bridge building" is needed.
Hone Harawira's apology has done little to relieve pressure on the Maori Party leadership to take a strong stance against him when it meets the MP for the first time tomorrow.
Parliament's Speaker Lockwood Smith has requested Maori Party MP Hone Harawira pay back some of the taxpayers' money used to fund him attending parliamentary business from which he skipped away from to see Paris.
Firebrand MP Hone Harawira has been given two weeks to decide if he wants to remain a Maori Party MP, in the wake of his racially abusive comments about white people.
