Tag: Maori culture
Waititi to wear his ‘Māori business attire’ back to NZ’s Parliament
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...
Jacinda Ardern on health, Ihumātao, Matariki, housing and Māori issues
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...
Whakapapa through portraiture – Taaniko Nordstrom talks to RNZ
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,...
Whakarewarewa: A silence not heard in 100 years thanks to covid-19
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...
A lone Māori voice raising Te Ao issues at the covid-19...
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...
Compulsory Te Reo Māori debate fails to address key problems, say...
Māori language week was celebrated last week and the key issue in the media was a debate on whether Te Reo Māori should be...
Learning te reo Māori a pathway to Aotearoa’s culture and history
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...
Kupu: New app translates objects into te reo Māori
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...
Lifetime of devotion to Māori and Pacific student success
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...
A tale of colonisation – deep music connections for Māori, Caribbean
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...
Gender and diversity research at AUT turns 10
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...
The Daily Blog: Jacinda’s Waitangi Day 2018 aroha creating a Māori...
OPINION: By Martyn Bradbury, editor of The Daily Blog
Waitangi Day 2018 smells different doesn’t it?
It tastes different too.
No bitter "Māori privilege" nonsense from Don...
Tūhoe leader’s address to deliver ‘hard truths’ about New Zealand
By Alex Braae in Auckland
Tūhoe leader Tamati Kruger has some hard truths to deliver in his upcoming 2017 Bruce Jesson Memorial lecture.
The chair of Tūhoe...
Remember the marginalised, chief justice says on Waitangi Day
Kimiora Kaire-Melbourne and Wikitōria Day reporting for Māori Television from Waitangi.
Māori Television’s Rereātea brings you the latest news on New Zealand’s Waitangi Day 2017.
Today Kimiora Kaire-Melbourne and Wikitōria Day take you...
Media still shut out of Te Tii Marae in lead up...
Media were still not permitted to film on Te Tii Marae premises in Waitangi, reports Māori Television.
Police also restricted media from filming the arrival...
NZ ‘relentlessly Pākehā’ newsrooms improving, says researcher
There are still too few Māori in New Zealand’s newsrooms, media researcher Julie Middleton says.
Middleton, who has worked for the New Zealand Herald, the...
WJEC16: Educators warn of looming crises within journalism, stress ‘better practice’
By Kendall Hutt
Journalism educators from across the Pacific have raised concerns about the current state of journalism globally at the 4th World Journalism Education...
Karakia in NZ schools under threat from court action
Dr Paul Moon, professor of history at Auckland University of Technology's Te Ara Poutama, says that a recent failed court action to ban Bible...