Newly independent MP Hone Harawira says it was "dumb" and shameful that he forgot to vote on the Bill that is the main reason for his break from the Maori Party.
Independent MP Hone Harawira says he will have a broom closet for an office and sit in Siberia in Parliament, but it's worth it to be free.
Independent MP Hone Harawira is to sound out support for a new political party.
Hone Harawira's career as a Maori Party MP is all but over, with the party's national council expected to today endorse a disciplinary committee recommendation to expel him.
The Maori Party committee considering a complaint against Hone Harawira has recommended that his party membership be cancelled.
Maori Party MP Te Ururoa Flavell says he has no regrets about making the complaint which has led to the Maori Party considering Hone Harawira's future.
Te Ururoa Flavell says he's disappointed Hone Harawira didn't turn up to a Maori Party disciplinary committee hearing into his future with the Maori Party today.
National's arch critic Hone Harawira wanted to become a minister when the Maori Party went into coalition with National in 2008, according to a confidential statement by Maori Party MP Te Ururoa Flavell.
What a circus this whole Maori Party fandango has become. That said, you don't have to like Hone Harawira, admire his inflammatory rhetoric or agree with a single thing he says to acknowledge that he and others like him play an essential part in our parliamentary democracy.
Maori Party co-leader Pita Sharples has called on his maverick MP Hone Harawira to cut himself loose from the party if he can't accept the disciplines of being in caucus.
Ignore the flowery twaddle being talked up in Maoridom about how the prosecution of Hone Harawira ought to have proceeded according to the principles of kaupapa Maori from the very start.
Hone Harawira's future with the Maori Party is on a knife edge after he today refused to give any ground and continued his criticisms of the party.
The suspension of Hone Harawira from caucus two days before this morning's disciplinary meeting sent a pre-emptive message to the Maori Party's disciplinary committee that co-leaders Pita Sharples...
Hone Harawira has been singing the same waiata since the 1970s, even as a youthful member of the first modern Maori protest group, Nga Tamatoa, a classic hit about the Treaty of Waitangi.
Labour leader Phil Goff says he could work with Hone Harawira if the latter becomes an independent MP.
MP Hone Harawira has arrived at Parliament to front up to Maori Party colleagues after being suspended from their ranks yesterday.
Hone Harawira says he is "hugely disappointed" by a decision to suspend him from the Maori Party caucus.
Hone Harawira has maintained that he wants to stay in the Maori Party despite referring to some members as "dickheads" on Facebook yesterday.
Hone Harawira still hasn't decided if he will attend a hui in Rotorua today where a complaint against him could be discussed.
Cracks in Maori Party unity are widening with leaders deciding to start disciplinary action against MP Hone Harawira.