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Blindness to the beauty of Ngāruawāhia is blindness to the beauty of New Zealand

Blindness to the beauty of Ngāruawāhia is blindness to the beauty of New Zealand  -  New Zealand's small towns are one bastion that protects our national identity: if only because we are close enough to the land and to the people upon ...

Wellington Council backs down on burial fee

Wellington Council backs down on burial fee  - It used to be in place, we pulled it out a couple of years ago, there's only one or two people per year that this impacts, it's something that we will ...

NZDF tackle sexual harassment issues

NZDF tackle sexual harassment issues  - The New Zealand Defence Force has brought in an outside team of six professionals to help reduce sexual harassment and harmful behaviour within ...

Minister Tolley agrees system has failed children

Minister Tolley agrees system has failed children  - Last night on Native Affairs Outgoing Children's Commissioner Dr. Russell Wills said New Zealand has failed in keeping children safe from child ...

Indigenous solutions sought to combat suicide

Indigenous solutions sought to combat suicide  - Suicide rates for Māori are two-and-a-half times more than for non- Maori , but New Zealand's tāngata whenua are not alone, with indigenous ...

A kiwi is born! Rare flightless New Zealand bird hatched at National Zoo's Virginia research facility

A kiwi is born! Rare flightless New Zealand bird hatched at National Zoo's Virginia research facility  - The bird is sacred to the Maori people of New Zealand , said Murphy, who added that keepers routinely collect fallen feathers that are later returned ...

Emotikis and New Keyboards Bring Indigenous Cultures to Text Messaging

Emotikis and New Keyboards Bring Indigenous Cultures to Text Messaging  - But when people from the Te Puia Māori cultural center in Rotorua, New Zealand looked at existing emojis, they realized there was an opportunity to ...

Assessing Jokowi's election promises to the Papuan people Devina Heriyanto

Assessing Jokowi's election promises to the Papuan people Devina Heriyanto  - During his campaign period, the now President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo made several promises to Papuan people . Nearly two years on, the ...