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Guide: all you need to know about the haka

The haka is a centuries-old ceremonial Maori dance that has hundreds of varieties. ... It reflects the multicultural nature of modern New Zealand. View article...

NZ Wars commemorations highlight importance of our history

Te Minita Whanaketanga Māori Minister for Māori Development ... the wars and conflicts within Aotearoa between the Crown and Māori, and was held ... View article...

Wrong-headed strategy on tree planting evident in Pan Pac decision - Maori Climate Commissioner

The Government's decision to give a foreign-owned forestry company unfettered access to New Zealand land highlights the hypocrisy of their ... View article...

Waitangi Tribunal grants targeted urgent inquiry

The Māori Inquiry into Oranga Tamariki led by Whanau Ora is calling for ... 100 per cent of New Zealand's emissions will be on the path downwards. View article...

Passion and fear key to language success.

The study, led by Unitec Professor Jenny Lee-Morgan and funded by Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori, looked at language efforts in Air New Zealand, ... View article...

Maori leading the fight against climate change – again

Māori leader Mike Smith has shot the first arrow in a global war between ... Launched on Friday 1 March, 2013, the 'TheDailyBlog.co.nz' unites New ... View article...

Tauranga councillor challenged over "juke" treaty

... to let him trample all over the really good relationships that had been built up over that time between Pakeha and Maori and Pakeha in Tauranga. View article...

Hundreds of Whanganui locals march against high homicide numbers

"People still think that it's just a Maori issue, but it's not, everyone is affected by violence but when you fix the issues with us, then we fix the issues with ... View article...

Adelaide festival Tarnanthi celebrates the strength of Yolngu art coming out of Northern Territory

As a gauge of Australian contemporary art, the annual Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAAs) have become key; ... View article...

'We want to see change': Calls for national commissioner for AustralianIndigenous children

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people are 17 ... detention and 10 times more likely to be in out-of-home care in Australia. View article...

Does barramundi only come from Australia?

Barramundi is an Aboriginal word possibly from the Darambal or Gangalu language from along the Fitzroy River west of Rockhampton. They used it to ... View article...

Whanganui crowned New Zealand's most beautiful city

It's got lovely historical buildings that are quite unique to New Zealand and obviously the river, our awa, and that's important to Maori people here ... View article...

'Time to understand our history' as New Zealand Wars remembered in Taranaki

The New Zealand Wars, or land wars, were battles between the Crown and some ... Minister for Maori Crown Relations Kelvin Davis will be part of a ... View article...

Cultivating a new industry for the BOP

Wepiha Health Co is a newly-created entity led by Maori clinical researchers and academics, agriculturalists and leading pharmacists, which is ... View article...

NZ Maori Council warns Greens Minister

The New Zealand Maori Council has once again questioned the Minister involved in approving another deal that has seen a foreign owned company ... View article...

Innocent until proven guilty? Not if you're Māori, poor or homeless

To many New Zealanders the link between remand and the presumption of innocence may not be necessarily clear. Let me explain. When a person ... View article...

Te Pūtake o te Riri: Fierce welcome for Ardern and Māori ministers

Hundreds of Māori toa, warriors, have given Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Māori ministers a fierce welcome to Owae Marae in Waitara for the ... View article...

England could face fine following their response to New Zealand's haka

England's players revealed that Eddie Jones was behind the plan to counter New Zealand's traditional Maori challenge in order to show they were ... View article...

The voices of Maori living with a disability

“This is an opportunity for the voices and stories of Maori living with a physical or intellectual disability to be heard. No more shall our peoples only live ... View article...

'Queen Sugar' captures the struggles of blacks in America

... dominance by white capital, race, class and personal relationships that crisscross the human complexities of bisexual, race and LGBTI dynamics. View article...