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Maori ward inaction decried by Maori Party

Maori ward inaction decried by Maori Party ... councils try to introduce Maori wards because she expects New Zealand First to oppose any change. View article...

Vision and courage behind Maori Language Awards

A lifetime of teaching and demonstrating the best of te reo Maori has won Rahera and Te Waihoroi Shortland a joint Lifetime Achievement Award at ... View article...

Help required to complete D Company history

“The Māori Battalion company histories will provide highly valuable historical and educational information to both Māori and the wider New Zealand ... View article...

The Putiki church that love built

It is a richly ornate fusion of Maori and Pakeha architecture, religious beliefs, culture, legends and mythology. Its origins begin with a love story. View article...

Tourists unaccounted for after volcano erupts on New Zealand island

... and daily tours allow more than 10,000 people to visit the volcano every year. The island is also known by the indigenous Maori name Whakaari. View article...

Pegasus Health welcomes new Director of Hauora Māori and Ōritetanga

Pegasus Health's commitment to equity and access will be further strengthened with the appointment of Irihāpeti Mahuika as its Director of Hauora ... View article...

Lights on Oranga Tamariki

In order for Maori to grow in capacity, something has to reduce and brave conversations began at the meeting around the role of Maori providers and ... View article...

Labour Party criticism shows PC culture trumps productivity

Why was electing a Māori president important other than to tick a perceived box? Where in Morgan's mind did talent fit or wasn't that important? View article...

LGBT+ in Australia

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One in two Aborigines suffered racism in last six months

More Aborigines are experiencing racism – with 46 per cent claiming discrimination in the last six months. Almost one in two indigenous Australians ... View article...

Lost, missing or murdered?

And they are not the only Indigenous family asking the same question: is she ... Australian authorities are yet to truly understand how many Aboriginal ... View article...

Indigenous filmmaking set to rise in Canada in 2018 and beyond

Indigenous filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin never thought she ... Wente hopes the office will be similar to Screen Australia's Indigenous ... View article...

Persistence pays off as mining's big cheese unveiled

“To date, four key contracts have been awarded to indigenous enterprises, focused on major plant, minor plant, labour hire and cleaning services,” she ... View article...

$13.5 million for new research to improve Indigenous health

... health – Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adolescents experience significantly higher mortality rates compared with non-Indigenous Australians ... View article...

Aboriginal communities' biggest threat: Out of sight, out of mind

Minister for Indigenous Australians Ken Wyatt last week told remote Queensland councils the first $5 million tranche of a $105 million program would ... View article...

Monash University's Jacinta Elston: William Cooper an inspiration

Indigenous activist William Cooper never studied at a university but his fight for indigenous equality will serve as inspiration for students studying at ... View article...

Best places to stop, eat, drink and swim

The track, which is rich in indigenous heritage, takes in some of the city's most spectacular coastal views, through exclusive harbourside suburbs and ... View article...

Health Minister appoints 13 new DHB chairs in 'changing of the guard'

"Māori and Pacific people often have worse health outcomes. That's entirely unacceptable and that's something that I personally am keen to see the ... View article...

Wellington police line holding cells with art by prisoners, students

He put the call out to artists to create work resembling 'Awhi', meaning help and support in Te Reo Māori. "When people come down here, they're ... View article...

Three Stocking Stuffers from Te Papa Press

The first describes the people and cultures encountered during Cook's voyages to the Antipodes, the other two highlight in more detail two of the Māori ... View article...