Tag: Maori health
Vaccination clinics prioritising Māori ‘swamped by Pākehā’
LOCAL DEMOCRACY REPORTING: By Moana Ellis, Local Democracy Reporter
The national strategy of vaccinating against covid-19 through general and mass events is not working for...
Auckland’s ‘most liveable’ city loses some gloss with Pacific criticism
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Days after being condemned by the largest Pacific Island capital -- Port Moresby, the Economist's Global Liveability Index has been criticised...
Māori in the gallery: Coping with daily racism in the Beehive...
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...
Iwi Chairs forum urges covid cap on NZ-bound travel, faster vaccine...
By Te Aorewa Rolleston, RNZ News Te Ao Māori affairs
The National iwi chairs forum has put forward six recommendations to the New Zealand government...
Harawira slams ‘frightening’ Auckland covid exodus statistics for Tai Tokerau
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Auckland, 4pm Saturday, August 15: 50,000 vehicles stopped, less than 700 turned back.
These statistics yesterday were "frightening", says Hone Harawira of...
Covid spread could ‘decimate’ Pasifika, Māori communities, warns Tukuitonga
By Sri Krishnamurthi of Pacific Media Watch
Pacific health specialist Dr Collin Tukuitonga is worried that the latest community transmission of covid-19 in Aotearoa New...
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...
Surge in Māori virus testing but some NZ district health boards...
By Leigh-Marama McLachlan, Māori affairs correspondent of RNZ News
There has been a surge in the rate of Māori being tested for the covid-19 coronavirus...
PM says ‘devastating’ Māori, Pasifika inequalities factor in lockdown move
By RNZ News
The vulnerable health of an urbanised Māori and Pasifika population was among reasons for extending the country's alert level 4 lockdown, the...
Māori and Pacific percentages of NZ’s coronavirus cases announced
Pacific Media Watch
New Zealand's Ministry of Health has confirmed that out of the 514 Covid-19 cases to date, approximately 4 percent of those cases...