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What needs to be done to tackle child homelessness in Aotearoa?

It also highlighted the disproportionate impacts on Māori and Pacific children, with young people living in severe housing deprivation more likely to ... View article...

NZ gov't backs Akaroa King Salmon expansion with NZD 1.5m Maori development grant

The New Zealand government has committed NZD 1.5 million ($900,000) from its Maori Development Fund to support expansion plans at Akaroa King  ... View article...

Lowering Māori Injury Rates Put At Risk By Govt's Focus On Culture Wars

WorkSafe latest restructure proposal is putting at risk the organisation's success in lowering serious injuries and deaths among kaimahi Māori . Under ... View article...

Diabetes ravaged his family. Now access to the drugs he credits with saving his life may change

Pharmac proposes removing special access criteria for Māori and Pasifika people with type 2 diabetes to three medicines. View article...

Removing ethnicity criterion for diabetes medicines not evidence based, expert says

... Māori and Pasifika is not evidence-based or clinically driven. ... A study has shown lives and costs have been saved with the introduction of a Special ... View article...

Government investing $5 million into Māori-owned businesses

Administered by Te Puni Kōkiri , the investment has been set aside from the Māori Development Fund to support economic growth, jobs and bolster ... View article...

Care Experienced Advocates Say Rangatahi Māori Can't Wait For The System To Catch Up ...

The report found many tamariki and rangatahi Māori experience multiple reports of concern before receiving the support they need, with one quarter ... View article...

Kiwi surfing great Troy Hirst mourned by Muriwai and Māori Bay communities

Kiwi surfing great Troy Hirst has been remembered as one of New Zealand 's most influential and respected surfers, with friends recalling his ... View article...

Kiwifruit collective wins Ahuwhenua Trophy

Young Māori Grower award is won by Te Rina Joe from Pakuratahi Orchard for Ngāti Pāhauwera Commercial Development Ltd. View article...

EIT student wins Ahuwhenua Young Māori Grower Award

An EIT horticulture student has been named the winner of the 2026 Ahuwhenua Young Māori Grower Award in recognition of her leadership and ... View article...

Making room for leadership in nursing

Professor Julia Slark steps aside to focus on stroke research, saying it is time for Josephine Davis 's Māori leadership to shine. View article...

Health NZ drops email domain after months in use

Te Whatu Ora is scrapping its current Māori -language email address, despite many staff having used it for only a few months. View article...

Work starts on 14 homes for Māori families in Kaipara communities

A $400 million Budget 2026 investment aimed at speeding up housing development has been welcomed by a Northland Māori housing provider, ... View article...

Ten takeaways from the Waitangi Tribunal's treaty clause review inquiry

Māori -Crown relations are being stretched to breaking point. “It makes me feel like a second-class citizen,” Hope Tupara , president of the Māori  ... View article...

'Colonisation in action': Pharmac wants to cut Māori and Pasifika special access to diabetes drugs

Pharmac is proposing to cut special criteria access to heart and kidney protecting drugs for Māori and Pasifika people diagnosed with type 2 diabetes . View article...

Mayor says Māori appointees will remain influential despite voting rights loss

Hamilton City Council 's Maangai Maaori will remain vital contributors to decisions even without a voting right, Mayor Tim Macindoe says. View article...

Prisoners' rights the focus of groundbreaking project

“The conditions in our prisons and the treatment of prisoners – who are disproportionately Māori and Pacific – continue to be criticised by United ... View article...

Future of Tauranga's Māori ward to be decided by binding referendum

Tauranga City Council has agreed to hold a binding referendum letting voters decide whether its Te Awanui Māori ward stays or goes. View article...

Māori Rocks Repatriated in Landmark University Project

The return recognises the rocks not only as scientific specimens, but as objects of cultural and spiritual significance to Māori communities. It marks ... View article...

Ngā Pukapuka Hou: the latest titles from Te Ao Māori

A century later in Aotearoa , Māori matriarch Keita stands amid the ruins of her whānau and the encroaching world of settlers , whalers and empire . View article...