Tag: Maori language

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...

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...

By Giles Dexter, RNZ News political reporter New Zealand's Te Pāti Māori has handed over its petition -- with 70,000 signatures -- calling for the...

COMMENTARY: By Māori Language Commissioner Professor Rawinia Higgins Whether he knows it or probably not, the year Joe Bennett arrived in Aotearoa from England was...

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...

Pacific Media Network News The number and quality of Pacific journalists are expected to rise in a never before seen collaboration between four major New...

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 Rachael Ka'ai-Mahuta, of Auckland University of Technology Earlier this year, I met an Aucklander whose teenage passion for K-pop sparked an interest in the...

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...

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...

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...

The New Zealand Human Rights Commission hosted a discussion on the importance of the United Nations Declaration on the rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP)...

OPINION: By Michael Neilson of The Gisborne Herald "Why would you want to learn it if you are not even Māori?” “You know it’s a...

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...