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'This is not a recognition I carry alone' - Māori honoured in King's Birthday list
Rugby superstar Portia Woodman-Wickliffe, former Labour Minister Dover Samuels, and waka stalwart Joe Conrad are among the Māori on this year's list.
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'What a load of crap': Chris Bishop seen 'ranting' during Stan Walker performance
31 May 2025Renowned musician Don McGlashan confronted the Cabinet minister over his comments at the event on Thursday night.
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How Māori, Pacific communities can reshape media narratives
30 May 2025The success of Brown Buttabean Motivation shows how initiatives can use media stereotypes to create their own narrative.
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Waitangi Tribunal hears new plan to improve Māori Health
29 May 2025Māori health leaders want the Waitangi Tribunal to recommend establishing a "new whare" to replace the short-lived, Te Aka Whai Ora.
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Budget abandons young parents and whānau, a youth advocate says
29 May 2025A kaupapa Māori youth service is warning against benefit sanctions, saying they will mean people 'end up on the street'.
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Mainstream health system failing Māori, Waitangi Tribunal told
29 May 2025Maia Honetana says the now scrapped Māori Health Authority would have made all the difference to her family's care.
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New doco traces years of Māori tobacco control and advocacy
"There are many people along the way that have told our story that aren't us, this is our story told by us," co-director Catherine Manning said.
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'Vulnerability is the new sexy': Māori men discuss health, well-being at symposium
28 May 2025Around 200 men gathered to listen to several leading figures in Māori health.
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An 'uncle's' Māori-driven rugby camp taking the world by storm
26 May 2025From Aotearoa to Mozambique, Troy Nathan has been touring the world for the past decade taking Haka Rugby Global to aspiring children of all different cultures.
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Tina Makereti: Cancer and finding her feet
25 May 2025In her debut essay collection, the award-winning Māori novelist takes a deep and direct look into her own "challenging and peculiar life".
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'Harsh': Youth homelessness advocate on Budget
28 May 2025The head of a group that helps the homeless fears proposed changes could push some young people into harm's way.
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Māori housing developer not concerned by Budget 2025 funding change
27 May 2025Kris MacDonald says they can build houses faster with lower overheads and with whānau engagement.
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How Billy T winner Hoani Hotene uses te reo Māori in comedy
27 May 2025Hotene joins the likes of Kura Forrester, Jermaine Clement and Taika Waititi as past Māori winners of the prize celebrating emerging talent on the NZ comedy circuit.
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Fourth time lucky? ACT's regulatory standards law may finally pass
26 May 2025This is the fourth time since 2006 a similar law has been proposed by the ACT Party during different governments.
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Regulatory Standards Bill passes first reading
The Regulatory Standards Bill has passed its first reading in Parliament.
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Bid to change Russell's name rejected
23 May 2025The Geographic Board say a proposal to change the name of the Northland town to its original Māori has been declined.
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Māori educators say Budget boost won't fix poor school buildings
Māori Medium schools received funding in the Budget for approximately 50 new teaching spaces.
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Budget: Māori question lack of targeted funding
23 May 2025But David Seymour says there should be no such thing as Māori funding.
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Māori education gets boost, targeted funding remains tight
22 May 2025$54 million in operational funding and another $50 million in capital funding has been allocated to increase Māori learner success by investing in curriculum support and teacher development.
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Photographer wins 2025 Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award
21 May 2025Ōpōtiki's Jazmin Paget-Knebel won for her photo documenting horse culture among rangatahi (young people).
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Homelessness told through the eyes of a wāhine Māori
21 May 2025A well-travelled wāhine Māori proves that home is what you make of it in a new short documentary.
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Celebration on court, censure in the House: Te Pāti Māori MPs' suspension sparks kōrero
20 May 2025While tikanga Māori is being sanctioned in Te Whare Pāremata, te reo Māori is alive and thriving on the netball courts of Tāmaki Makaurau.
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Bringing te reo and the environment together at Te Papa
20 May 2025Kura Reo Taiao, a three-day full immersion course, is giving a Māori voice to the environment.
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'We just awhi them': Iwi-led initiative tackles school attendance crisis
22 May 2025The initiative helped to re-engage more than 250 children with education last year.
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Hundreds protest proposed exclusion of Te Pāti Māori MPs
21 May 2025A lawyer representing Te Pāti Māori says its MPs were using haka in Parliament to express their frustration with the Treaty Principles Bill.
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Food insecurity in Porirua: 'There's real pressure on our whānau'
19 May 2025There has been a big spike in the number of whānau reaching out for essential supplies, says a marae in Porirua offering foodbank services.
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Tribal place names restored throughout central North Island
19 May 2025Mountains, a lake and scenic reserves are some of the sites that have been renamed.
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NZ's largest te reo Māori only netball event thriving
19 May 2025A kaupapa Māori netball tournament is committed to creating a space where te reo Māori is the norm - on and off the court.
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