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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...

Julian Wilcox named as new chair of Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori

Acting Māori Development Minister Shane Jones confirmed the appointment, saying Wilcox brought a deep knowledge and practice of te reo Māori , strong ... View article...

Canterbury Residency Probes Private Māori Taonga Trade

"Up until 1975, unearthing taonga Māori was finders-keepers, and a huge amount of cultural heritage went into private hands. For years I've heard ... View article...

Cost of living pressures hitting Māori hard

More than a third of Māori have had to borrow money or use ' buy now, pay later ' to cover essentials in the past year, according to the ... View article...

What will Chris Hipkins have to give away to become Prime Minister?

Greens , Te Pāti Māori and Opportunity fundamentally disagree with Labour on taxation, constitutional arrangements, welfare, public ownership and a ... View article...

New poll of Māori voters shows strategic voting may be sinking in

This could indicate that the strategy from Te Pāti Māori to campaign only for an electorate vote has reached many of its supporters, who have decided ... View article...

New Zealand's emergency departments in 'crisis', report says

Māori patients visiting the ED also rose by 49%. The number of people requiring urgent and complex care also rose across the same period, with 66 ... View article...

Former Speaker of the House and Labour MP Adrian Rurawhe dies

We were all very proud when he was honoured as being only the second person of Māori descent to be appointed to the role of Speaker ,” Labour Māori ... View article...

Labour will cost households $2263 per year

“Conveniently for Chris Hipkins , his prospective coalition partners in the Greens , Te Pāti Māori and Opportunity have a suite of new taxes they ... View article...

Podcast goes beyond prison gates: to health of Māori returning home

Māori leaving prison face sharply elevated mortality, barriers to primary care and an absence of basic support. A new podcast makes the findings ... View article...

Coalition parties want to 'bury' Waitangi Tribunal for exposing Treaty breaches

A leading Māori health advocate says efforts to abolish or limit the Waitangi Tribunal are an attempt to "bury" a body that exposes Treaty ... View article...

How Shoe Designer Kathryn Wilson has stayed at the top for over two decades

We dig into feedback from an Otago Med School grad who claims entry standards for Māori and Pacific students are far lower than the public knows. View article...

Immediately abolish the Waitangi Tribunal

The party says the Ministry of Māori Development would take responsibility for Crown- Māori relations, as well as overseeing current treaty claims . View article...