# Parliamentary Rules and Sanctions for Language and Behavior in New Zealand and Australia

The Foreign and Comparative Law Webinar Series is designed to shed light on foreign and comparative law issues currently being researched by foreign law and international law experts at the Law Library of Congress.

During the past 2 years, several members of parliament in Australia and New Zealand have faced sanctions for their behavior in the debating chamber. Suspensions have been handed down for performing a haka in the New Zealand Parliament and for wearing a burqa in the Australian Senate. Foreign law specialist Kelly Buchanan will outline the rules that regulate the conduct of members of the two national parliaments and how they are enforced, including their application in these two cases.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2026
- Runtime: 46 min
- By: Buchanan, Kelly
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/video-12109/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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