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Experts condemn Aotearoa government push to eliminate Māori words from early education books
Leading experts have condemned moves by the government of Aotearoa to remove te...
Giovanni Torre 24 Aug 2025
World Indigenous Broadcasters Network conference opens in Taiwan
The World Indigenous Broadcasters Network opened its 2025 conference this week i...
Giovanni Torre 13 Aug 2025
'I lament this act of violence': Significant Māori sites vandalised
Vandalism of pou whenua - carved wooden posts identifying Māori places of signif...
Jarred Cross 26 Dec 2024
Aotearoa PM apologises to survivors of state and church care abuse
Aoteaora Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has made a "formal and unreserved" apo...
Giovanni Torre 12 Nov 2024
University of Auckland defends compulsory Treaty of Waitangi unit in face of attacks
The University of Auckland has defended their "bold" move to have all first-year...
Dechlan Brennan 20 Sep 2024
Restrengthening connections between Māori and Pacific an important step for Tiriti (Treaty)-based constitution

A Pacific law academic says restrengthening connections between Pacific tauiwi (settlers) and Māori is an important step towards transforming the constitution of Aotearoa (New Zealand), to honour...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Apr 18, 2024
Study looks at how the Māori dealt with COVID

A study on the Māori social response to COVID-19 suggests that the close-knit nature of Indigenous communities could be crucial in shaping improved public health policies.

Joseph Guenzler Joseph Guenzler Feb 7, 2024
Heckles and boos for New Zealand government at Waitangi

Maori leaders have chastised the New Zealand government amid raucous scenes at the Waitangi Treaty Grounds ahead of the country's national day.

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Ben McKay Feb 5, 2024
Waitangi flashpoint arrives for NZ's Luxon government

Some of New Zealand's most memorable moments of political protest have taken place at the site of its foundation - the Waitangi Treaty Grounds in the country's far north.

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Ben McKay Feb 5, 2024
Attack on treaty exhibit at NZ national museum

Activists have defaced an exhibit on the Treaty of Waitangi at New Zealand's national museum, Te Papa, in the latest display of tension around the place of Maori after the election of a right-wing gov...

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Ben McKay Dec 11, 2023
Creed Tha Kid releases new Latin-inspired single 'Impatient'

Brisbane-based Māori-Australian R&B/Hip Hop artist Creed Tha Kid returned with a catchy new single called 'Impatient', released Friday.

Joseph Guenzler Joseph Guenzler Sep 18, 2023
"Disturbing" footage shows Dutch and Spanish footballers mock haka ahead of World Cup

Spain and Netherlands players have sparked outrage after appearing to mock the haka just days out from the opening match of the FIFA Women's World Cup.

Jarred Cross Jarred Cross Jul 11, 2023
After a long campaign, Māori tribe celebrates legislation protecting essential seafood

Following a long period of advocacy and guardianship from Māori iwi (tribe) leaders, a culturally significant food source has received legal protection off Taranaki on the west coast of Aotearoa'...

Jarred Cross Jarred Cross Jan 19, 2023
Delay to Māori co-government and a fall in the polls place pressure on Ardern in election year

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Arden has urged Kiwis to consider her party's commitment to Māori affairs amid dwindling support and criticism of delayed self-determination measures ahead of t...

Jarred Cross Jarred Cross Jan 4, 2023
Teenager aims to become second Māori ever to study medicine at Harvard

Koan Hemana of Rotorua Boys' High School, Aotearoa, will soon begin studying at Harvard College with the aim of getting into the Boston university's post-graduate medical school.

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Dec 21, 2022
Māori Party leader calls for inquiry into inmate mistreatment

Māori Party co-leader Rawiri Waititi has called for a ministerial inquiry into the treatment of prison inmates, telling Corrections Minister Kelvin Davis that Aotearoa/New Zealand needs a "by M&#...

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Darby Ingram Feb 25, 2021
Māori Party politician kicked out of Parliament for attire

Speaker of the Aotearoa/New Zealand House of Representatives Trevor Mallard has announced that male MPs will no longer be required to wear a tie while speaking in Aotearoa/New Zealand's Parliament.

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Darby Ingram Feb 16, 2021
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