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Barry Soper: The Greens and Te Pāti Māori are being absurd

Candidates from Te Pāti Māori and the Greens were recently spotted meeting with the Mongrel Mob on social media, and it's prompted some backlash. View article...

Mob politics: Coalition seizes on gang pad visit, but National faces its own challenge

Labour and the Opportunity Party are distancing themselves from Te Pāti Māori and the Greens over their candidates' selfies with the Mongrel Mob, ... View article...

Labour promises $900 million boost for Māori businesses

Labour is promising to restore its Māori procurement policy and expand access to government contracts for Māori businesses, as it looks to ... View article...

How did early Māori society develop? New research reveals a clearer timeline

This greater precision brings us closer to connecting archaeological evidence with Māori oral traditions, which preserve accounts of events and ... View article...

Aotearoa New Zealand falling behind on adult vaccines

The Briefing also highlights substantial inequities in vaccine-preventable disease in NZ. In 2025, invasive pneumococcal disease rates among Māori and ... View article...

Advocate voices concerns after Greens and Te Pāti Māori reportedly meet with Mongrel Mob

A victims' advocate says she's furious MPs from the Greens and Te Pāti Māori had a photo op with the Mongrel Mob. View article...

New poll shows no path to power for National without Opportunity

Labour would be able to govern with or without Te Pāti Māori winning a seat and creating an overhang. National leader Christopher Luxon has ... View article...

Clever, cool and quirky, is this New Zealand's most underrated city?

I've come to Dunedin in the depths of winter for Matariki, the Maori New Year, heralded by the rising of its namesake star cluster. A national ... View article...

Māori Nursing Leader Kerri Nuku Sounds Alarm Over Health Workforce Crisis and Growing ...

One of Aotearoa's leading Māori nursing advocates, Kerri Nuku, is continuing to challenge the Government over mounting pressure on the country's ... View article...

Youth advocates urge rangatahi to vote as homelessness concerns grow

Research by the Coalition to End Women's Homelessness found Wāhine Māori make up over 50 percent of the total homeless population and account for at ... View article...

Ta Rē Moriori Revival Reveals Rēkohu's True History

Rēkohu - the Chatham Islands in English, Wharekauri in te reo Māori - is a small corner of Aotearoa New Zealand, 800 kilometres east of the South ... View article...

Study backs wider glucose monitors for type 2 diabetes

" Māori , Pacific, and Indian communities are disproportionately affected by type 2 diabetes and its complications, and we are seeing an earlier ... View article...

Waikato tuberculosis cases expose gaps in contact tracing

Better contact tracing is needed to stop the spread of a rare but potentially deadly disease, with Māori especially at risk, a new study has ... View article...

One Candidate, One Pint: Labour's Te Pūoho Katene wants the mandate to carry the mana ...

'In election time when things are getting dirty and acerbic, people forget that our communities, particularly Māori communities, vote on hope. View article...

Your language is training AI. Are you being paid?

Whisper, an open-source speech recognition model, had been trained on extensive recordings of Māori and Hawaiian speech collected from those language ... View article...

Sarjeant Happenings: Māori Futures exhibition brings together 15 diverse artists in unity of purpose

If you're looking for positive visions to help focus on the future, I recommend the dynamic space contemporary Māori art offers in our galleries. View article...

Do young people understand the power of the youth vote?

Rhiannon Te Paea says says voting is about being a good ancestor, and encourages rangatahi to "make rangatira decisions." Supplied / Ngā Tauira Māori . View article...

Finding connections between the Spirited Away world and te ao Māori

The Oscar winning animated film is set to be dubbed in te reo Māori and released in December. View article...

British musuem returns 125-year-old kahu kiwi to Marlborough iwi

"He wasn't supposed to serve Māori who lived within the Wairau Pā, because we were associated to another road board, we had to go to Picton Hospital, ... View article...

Research Finds Ethnic Minorities Trust Police Less

... Māori and Black Americans. The study found both minorities had less trust in the police compared to participants who self-identified as either ... View article...