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Police launch strategy to reduce Māori re-offending by 25 percent

It's one of many targets set out in their new Māori strategy - Te Huringa o Te Tai - launched at Pipitea Marae in Wellington last night. Māori make up 51 ... View article...

How Shane Jones' fire is burning New Zealand's Indian community

Still, I would argue that these Kiwi-Indians have played a major role in shaping modern New Zealand – along with Māori, Pākehā and other ... View article...

I swapped a career in forensics for fashion and now I'm showing collections in London!

... felt like a dream," gushes Dot, the only New Zealand designer to feature. ... was recently awarded a Queen's Service Medal for services to Māori art). View article...

Emus spread their wings in NZ

The group of young men and women took part in various fixtures against New Zealand schools and teams, taking in the proud Maori culture in the ... View article...

'The Māori trouble' at Waitara: Revisiting the Taranaki wars and myths set in stone

In the opening scenes of NZ Wars: The Stories of Waitara, a young wahine methodically plants her kūmara crops in the fertile Taranaki soil, unaware ... View article...

Whāriki: new book on Māori community entrepreneurship

All are examples of Māori-owned business forging a distinctive identity in New Zealand's economic and social future. Based on a five-year research ... View article...

Māori carving to strengthen ties between Taranaki firefighters and iwi

Fire and Emergency New Zealand Maori liaison officer Hori Mana blows a pūtātara, a Māori shell trumpet, at a ceremony to unveil at carving at New ... View article...

Lessons from First Nations environmental land, water care

Maori have asserted their sovereign rights to forge agreements which grant the Whanganui River and the Te Urewera ... View article...

LGBT+ in Australia

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Gammin Threads celebrates Indigenous women in Australia

Yorta Yorta, Taungurung, Boonwurrung and Mutti Mutti woman Tahnee Edwards was inspired to start Gammin Threads based on the 2018 NAIDOC ... View article...

Frail and elderly Aboriginal artists allegedly forced to paint to pay off debts

The collective wrote to the federal minister for Indigenous Australians, Ken Wyatt, and the South Australian premier, Steven Marshall, pleading for help ... View article...

Former Labor frontbencher says party 'needs a soul' and can't win on economy alone

Former Labor frontbencher Daryl Melham says Labor in this term must devote itself to dealing with unfinished business with Indigenous Australians, ... View article...

The land the NDIS forgot: the remote Indigenous communities losing the postcode lottery

McGinlay says the problem is that the scheme doesn't acknowledge that Indigenous Australians in remote communities have particular needs due to ... View article...

Ricky Gervais' Netflix Series used a fake indigenous painting - Does it matter?

In August, the Australian Government through IP Australia published the `Protection of Indigenous knowledge in the intellectual property system: ... View article...

Wyatt orders probe into claims of art exploitation

Indigenous Australians Minister Ken Wyatt has ordered his department to urgently investigate claims that some of Australia's most successful ... View article...

After Uluru: Other Australian Aboriginal sites like Wollumbin Mount Warning could close too

With the world-famous Aboriginal site now closed to climbing by tourists, other destinations in Australia are considering similar tourist-reducing ... View article...

Australia's story: preserving Indigenous rock art in the Kimberley

The rock art painted by Aboriginal people thousands of years ago is a priceless national treasure that few Australians have seen, and whose ... View article...

Waikato researchers awarded $5.6m from Marsden Fund

... as a hallmark of excellence for researchers working in New Zealand. ... in New Zealand and in other colonised countries has overlooked Māori and ... View article...

Abuse in care inquiry: 'Colonisation is an inherently abusive process'

In New Zealand, Māori men make up 62 percent of the prison population and Māori women 64 percent. Mr Jackson said the common thread was they ... View article...

University of Auckland welcomes Te Pūtea Rangahau a Marsden

Why a gene variant specific to Māori and Pacific people increases blood pressure, understanding how colour-blind octopus are so exceptional at ... View article...