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Nurses gather nationwide to protest over staff shortages, pay and conditions

... primary health care, Plunket and hospices as well as those involved with Māori healthcare. Auckland nurses attend rally over pay, conditions. View article...

Laying down the te reo Māori challenge to corporates

Extinction of the Māori language still possible if corporate Aotearoa doesn't play its part. NBR senior journalist Will Mace speaks with ... View article...

How did 3 Waters become an existential race threat?

That Māori have an interest, be it cultural, economic or cosmological in water has already been decided by the Waitangi Tribunal and has obligated ... View article...

Did You Get Your Māori Option Pack?

Māori voters should have received an information pack in the mail by now about the Māori Electoral Option . The Option is the choice for Māori to ... View article...

Te reo Māori's place among the world's languages

Column: It's no surprise then that English, particularly as spoken here, should incorporate many Māori words, writes David Kārena-Holmes. View article...

Māori Voyaged to Antarctica at Least 1000 Years Before Europeans, Study Finds

Māori were also part of the 'Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration' in the late 19th and early 20th century, helping European explorers with medicine, ... View article...

King Charles pens letter to New Zealand referring to country as Aotearoa

Māori are the indigenous Polynesian people of the country. King Charles penned the letter to share his condolences with the country after it was ... View article...

The Flag of New Zealand: History, Meaning, and Symbolism

The Māori culture was developed by these Polynesians and is now an important and distinctive culture in New Zealand. The first European to visit ... View article...

Keri Kaa shared gifts of her tipuna

One of 12 children of Reverend Tipi Whenua Kaa and Hohipene Kaa, she attended Queen Victoria School for Māori Girls and Auckland Girls' ... View article...

Police use of force report: Māori seven times more likely than Pākehā to be on receiving end

During offender proceedings, force was used against Māori 40 per cent ... "That is an indictment on New Zealand, and police have to deal with those ... View article...

Panepane Point plan prompts encouraging level of interest

The proposal to return part of Matakana Island to Māori has already prompted an encouraging level of interest from people keen to have their say. View article...

Ara hosts Minister: Institute's release of 'Framework for Māori Achievement'

Kelvin Davis (Ngāti Manu), MP for Te Tai Tokorau, New Zealand's first Minister for Māori Crown Relations Te Arawhiti; Minister of Corrections; Minister ... View article...

'We deserve better': NZ food writers respond to diversity concerns

The promotion of Hiakai and Monique Fiso is a great start in promoting that Māori have cuisine worth celebrating. Now New Zealand writers need to ... View article...

Pasifika film-makers looking to shine at Whānau Mārama

“For about nine years now, myself and Craig Fasi of the Pollywood Film Festival, we've put together a programme of Maori and Pasifika shorts and this ... View article...

'Just Shane, a Māori boy from Northland': Who is National's new health spokesman?

In 2014, Reti's political career began when he was elected MP for Whangarei – the first Māori MP for the region. In his maiden speech he described ... View article...

Maori filling screen production roles

Almost one in four producers in the screen sector identify as Māori, according to the latest NZ On Air Diversity report. Another 9 percent of surveyed ... View article...

Papuans challenge Indonesian rule at country's highest court

Papuans challenge Indonesian rule at country's highest court - Foreign Ministry spokesman Arrmanatha Nasir said the Papua issue is ... B.C. landmarks to glow green to urge people to become organ donors.

Anne Frank's Diary translated into te reo Māori

Anne Frank's Diary translated into te reo Māori - Klap hopes the translation of Anne Frank's diary will lead not only to more people in Aotearoa/ New Zealand learning te reo Māori but to a greater ...

The Māori ward project is failing, and it's hurting New Zealand democracy

The Māori ward project is failing, and it's hurting New Zealand democracy - Traditional local council structures are shutting out indigenous voices. Māori wards were supposed to be the answer – so why are so few being ...

Love and solidarity': Posters against racism hit Christchurch streets

Love and solidarity': Posters against racism hit Christchurch streets - When I told him I was from New Zealand and was part Maori , he was disappointed saying he thought I was Tahitian and that he wouldn't let any of his ...