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Maori Party hopes more Maori seats will be created : The Maori Party hopes at least one new Maori electorate will be created as a result of this year's Maori electoral option. From 25 March, voters of Maori descent will have four months to decide if they want to be on the Maori or general roll for the ...

Maori is their baby, their children have left home now and Maori means everything to them. Maori is ...  -  Maori is urgently referred to Fitzpatrick Referrals after losing the use of her legs almost completely. One of the discs in Maori's spine has become ...

Maori forest owners should look to China - Maori Trustee : The Maori Trustee, who has returned from a trip to China with the Prime Minister, says the country holds big opportunities for Maori forest owners. The office of the Maori Trustee administers and leases Maori land. Jamie Tuuta was part of a delegation ...

Understanding Maori land law changes in the Te Ture Whenua reform - Te Ture Whenua Maori Bill is currently going through Parliament - which means we could soon see the most significant change to Maori land law in 20 years. Maori land has a complex history of the Crown using legislation to take land. That history involves wars, marches and confiscations. Today Maori freehold land includes more than 1.4 million ha or about 5 per cent of New Zealand's land mass. There are 27,137 Maori freehold land titles and about 2.7 million ownership interests in those titles. Te Ture Whenua Act 1993 is complex, and the current reform is the result of six years of consultation and an ongoing conversation since 1998. Maori Development Minister Te Ururoa Flavell has said every contribution to this bill had made it stronger. "In the time I've been in Parliament there is no bill that has been this consulted on," he said.

Maori electoral option packs in the mail - Information packs will be sent to 477,000 Maori voters this week as the 2018 Maori Electoral Option gets underway. The option runs until August 2 giving Maori voters the choice to be on the Maori roll or the general roll for the next two general elections. Voters on the Maori roll will vote for a candidate in ...

Manuel Springford's te reo Maori efforts recognised at Maori Language Awards - Manuel Springford has won the Individual Achievement award at the Maori Language Commission's Nga Tohu Reo Maori , Maori Language Awards.

Maori Party's founding tenets starting to unravel With the Maori birthrate considerably higher than the Pakeha, the wisdom of enrolling on the Maori roll was thought to be obvious: a demographic guarantee of many more Maori seats. The Maori vote, overwhelmingly loyal to the Maori Party, would thus ...

2014 Maori MP winners and losers and could the Maori Party and MANA Movement merge?  - Nanaia had the stage and articulated a staunch, strong, proud Maori voice. The lift in Maori support for Labour needs recognition and in Nanaia, Maori  ...

Maori prison rehabilitation programmes not Maori enough : A co-author of the Maori rehabilitation programme in prison says less than half of the mahi (work) is kaupapa Maori and that needs to change. Hinewirangi Kohu-Morgan helped write the Mauri Tu Pae programme which is running in the five Maori Focus Units ...

Big switch needed for extra Maori seat -  Big switch needed for extra Maori seat. It could be a hard ask to get another Maori seat out of this year's Maori electoral option, and there is also a chance of losing a seat. Maori voters have been sent packs giving them the option of switching between the Maori and general rolls, and there is also ...

Non-Maori People Expected to Live 7.3 Years Longer : The data revealed that the Non- Maori men live up to 80.2 years while Maori live up to 72.8 years. Similarly, Non- Maori women are expected to live up to 83.7 years while Maori have life expectancy of 76.5 years. The figures were collected between 2010 ... TopNews United States

Maori admitted to mental health services at higher rates than non- Maori - I'm not a dark-skinned Maori , I have a lighter shade of hair. It is difficult when you walk in the Pakeha and the Maori world as well as the schizophrenic ...

Maori culture in the prevention of Maori suicide : Mental Health Foundation chief executive Judi Clements says they'll give people the opportunity to learn, discuss and raise issues about Maori suicide. She says one topic will be how Maori culture can help a person who is at risk. Ms Clements says ...

Maori Council targeting suicide prevention among Maori men - The New Zealand Maori Council in partnership with the National Maori Authority has launched a new resource for targeting suicide prevention and ...

Unsuccessful Maori council candidates feel the sting of controversial Maori ward debate - Backlash from New Plymouth's failed Maori ward push is one of the factors keeping Maori out of Taranaki councils, an unsuccessful mayoral candidate ...

Maori TV investigates Maori Language next trust spending  - New Zealand's Maori Television has uncovered questionable spending by senior leaders of a trust which run the country's Maori Language pre-schools,  ...

Maori doctors on the rise - The Medical Council is confident New Zealand is on track for the percentage of Maori doctors to reflect the proportion of Maori in the general ... to the 15 percent of Maori in the general population, a record number of Maori and Pasifika doctors graduated from both New Zealand medical schools in 2016.

Te Ao Maori mourn the loss of Te Aupouri Maori language exponent and broadcaster Kingi Ihaka. - Kingi Ihaka was also a valued contributor to Radio Waatea hosting Maori language sports commentaries, a Maori language advisor and was a regular ...

World's first Maori -speaking kids doll - A couple's creation of Te Reo Maori speaking dolls have proved an instant hit among Kiwis with the product racing out the doors. Rotorua couple Kristin Ross and Hohepa Tuahine started the idea of the Pipi Ma dolls after deciding to raise their children in a Maori-speaking household. Their young daughter asked if she could have a talking doll, so the couple went shopping for a Maori speaking version only to find there was nothing suitable. The pair then put their minds together and created the Pipi Ma Maori speaking doll. The Pipi Ma dolls come in four characters: Poi-twirling Pipi, green-haired Hura, bespectacled Titoki and number-loving Pitau Potiki.

Maori information for Maori landowners  -  Maori owners of land administered by the new Maori Trustee, Te Tumu Paeroa, can now find out what's happening with new online information and ...