Tag: Maori culture

TE WIKI O TE RĒO MĀORI: By Aroha Awarau Last year Joelle Holland invested all of the money she had saved for a home deposit...

TE WIKI O TE RĒO MĀORI: By Aroha Awarau Christina Dawa Kutsmana Thomas is on a mission to save her indigenous language from extinction. There...

RNZ News Social media platform Snapchat has removed a feature that allowed users to apply traditional Māori tattoos on their faces. The filters were pulled after...

By Ashleigh McCaull, RNZ News Te Ao Māori reporter On the 35th anniversary of te reo Māori becoming an official language, the Māori Language Commission...

RNZ News Today's Matariki celebrations signal the maturing of Aotearoa New Zealand, says Māori leader Sir Pou Temara. A ceremony attended by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern...

ANALYSIS: By Mike Lee, University of Auckland Aotearoa New Zealand will enjoy a new official public holiday on June 24, with the country marking Matariki...

National Māori Authority chair Matthew Tukaki has seen plenty of protests and received his fair share of abuse, but what’s been happening in Wellington...

Asia Pacific Report newsdesk The co-leader of New Zealand's minority Māori Party has launched a blistering attack on white privilege and the opposition National Party...

ANALYSIS: By Dominic O'Sullivan, Charles Sturt University For many New Zealanders, He Puapua came shrouded in controversy from the moment it became public knowledge earlier...

COMMENT: By Rukuwai Tīpene-Allan “Welfare dependent”, “inferior”, “savages”, “natives”... Walking through Parliament, I head to my office in the press gallery, passing gilded portraits of reporters...

RNZ News Māori Party co-leader Rawiri Waititi has been ejected from New Zealand's Parliament for doing a haka in protest against questions by the Opposition...

By RNZ News New Zealand's parliamentary Speaker has offered an olive branch to Māori Party co-leader Rawiri Waititi over his refusal to wear a tie...

Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Three years ago, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern campaigned on kindness and transformation. As New Zealand heads to the voting booths...

By RNZ Saturday Morning Former Air New Zealand cabin attendant Taaniko Nordstrom, and her sister-in-law Vienna Nordstrom, are the creative duo behind Soldiers Rd Portraits,...

By Te Aniwa Hurihanganui, RNZ Manu Korihi reporter New Zealand's border restrictions have cut off more than 90 percent of visitors to Rotorua's oldest tourism...

By Hayden Donnell, RNZ Mediawatch producer You might not know his face, but Māori Television’s Heta Gardiner has been one of the most valuable and...

Māori language week was celebrated last week and the key issue in the media was a debate on whether Te Reo Māori should be...

Eden created an online series for Te Karere voicing the political views of youth. Video: AUT By Michael Neilson, Māori affairs reporter of the New...

Te Rina Kowhai reports for Te Karere. Video: TVNZ Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk A new app developed by Spark and Google in conjunction with the Research...

PROFILE: By Leilani Sitagata Educator and kuia Tui O’Sullivan has recently retired from Auckland University of Technology after close to 40 years of service. Born and...

By Lynda Chanwai-Earle of RNZ National Two flags fly proud over the inaugural steelband festival in Auckland’s Silo Park, flapping in a brisk late summer...

By Helen Twose in Auckland Auckland University of Technology's Gender and Diversity Research Group has reached a significant milestone, celebrating 10 years of research and...