Maori Party MP Hone Harawira is taking some time away from the media spotlight after his party suggested he walk away and become an independent MP.
President Whatarangi Winiata's bombshell request that MP Hone Harawira resign from the Maori Party will throw the party into unprecedented turmoil.
Maori MP Hone Harawira has reacted to an email criticising him for bunking off a work trip to visit Paris, by lashing out at white people.
Hone Harawira fronts up to a hui in Kaitaia today over his racially abusive comments about white people but Maori Party leaders are staying away.
The Maori Party should have instantly expelled Hone Harawira for his "outrageous racist behaviour" says New Zealand First leader Winston Peters.
Monday November 9: In which Hone Harawira and Rodney Hide discover it can be a lonely business being in the media spotlight for all the wrong reasons, and find consolation in the most unexpected of places - each other - through an exchange of email.
It will be tomorrow before the Maori Party decides what action, if any, it will take against its outspoken MP Hone Harawira.
Maverick Maori Party MP Hone Harawira says he is willing to pay back some of the taxpayers' money used to fund him attending parliamentary business which he skipped away from to see Paris.
Maori Party MP Hone Harawira has now said Labour leader Phil Goff should be "shot" for his party's foreshore and seabed legislation.
Maori Party MP Hone Harawira has apologised for his language in a controversial email, but not the message.
Maori Party MP Hone Harawira
Maori MP Hone Harawira decided to take a holiday with his wife in Paris instead of attending a European parliamentary delegation meeting.
He may be asked to pay back some travel costs after leaving the Brussels meeting last month to see the sights in Paris, The New Zealand Herald reported today.
Taunts from Labour's Trevor Mallard that Hone Harawira was betraying his people by supporting tax cuts have brought a blunt response from the Maori Party MP - "I'd like to kill him".
Labour's commitment to "constructively engage" with the review of the Foreshore and Seabed Act has enraged a Maori Party MP.
Maori MP Hone Harawira is being accused of defending an alleged assault against Prime Minister John Key.
Hone Harawira is on a mission.
Maori Party MP Hone Harawira is being investigated after skipping a European parliamentary delegation meeting in Brussels to go sightseeing in Paris.
Hone Harawira has escaped being kicked out of the Maori Party but is likely to be told to publicly apologise for inflammatory words he used in an email and for visiting Paris instead of staying with an official delegation in Brussels.
Maori Party co-leader Tariana Turia
Maori Party co-leader Tariana Turia is concerned her MP Hone Harawira's unscheduled side trip to Paris during a taxpayer funded work trip will damage the party's reputation.
Maori Party MP Hone Harawira
A hui on Thursday will decide how Maori Party MP Hone Harawira can atone for skipping off to Paris while on a parliamentary trip to Brussels and then responding to criticism with an offensive outburst.
The party leadership decided yesterday it wasn't going to sack him but appears to at least expect a public apology from the Te Tai Tokerau (Northland) MP.
Maori Party MP Hone Harawira
Maori Party MP Hone Harawira has called a press conference for this afternoon at which he is expected to apologise for racist remarks about white people.
The remarks were made in an email to former Waitangi Tribunal director Buddy Mikaere after being criticised for skipping off to Paris with his wife while on a parliamentary trip to Europe.