Te Ao Māori

Dutch paddler Koos Wabeke says getting involved with kaupapa waka - and learning about the Māori world - has changed his life.

Māori leaders in the Far North turned their collective back in an emotional demonstration.

Kaiako Tania Koroi Nohotima said Waitangi provided a valuable holistic learning environment for students.

Waitangi always draws a crowd, but why, this year?

Follow all the speeches and events from the Treaty Grounds.

The Labour Party will not support Te Pāti Māori's call for the establishment of a parliamentary commissioner for Te Tiriti with the ability to veto parliamentary decisions, Chris Hipkins told RNZ. Audio

Dressed in all white, the new queen stood out immediately among the kuia and kaumātua wearing their usual black formal pōwhiri clothes.

As Waitangi celebrations begin to pave way, haukāinga and manuhiri have arrived in numbers.

The Parliamentary pōwhiri is a chance each year for politicians to have their say, and for the hau kāinga - home people - and te ao Māori, to respond.

The decision in the High Court means she faces the prospect of being ineligible to practice as a real estate agent for five years.

It will be a bottom line for any potential coalition negotiations at next year's election, the party says.

The political situation is simply one of the big topics, Ngāti Kahungunu iwi chair Bayden Barber says

But the head of the marae the prime minister will attend instead says he won't be given an easy ride. Audio

Many people have little idea that Māori scholarship stretches back to the earliest books published in this country.

Whānau of Dame Iritana Tāwhiwhirangi have remembered her as a tireless advocate for empowering Māori families.