Tag: Maori
Iwi and council join forces as new NZ government signals cuts...
By Craig Ashworth, Local Democracy Reporter
South Taranaki's iwi and council have drawn up a new partnership agreement just as the Aotearoa New Zealand's new...
NZ election 2023: Green Party pledges to double Best Start payment
RNZ News
New Zealand's Green Party says it will double the Best Start payment from $69 a week to $140 -- and it will also...
Rotorua council’s scrapped Māori ward representation bill ‘done and dusted’
By Laura Smith in Rotorua
A controversial bill aimed at increasing Māori representation at one of Aotearoa New Zealand's most popular tourist destinations has been...
Women number more than half of NZ journalists, but ‘troubled by...
Massey University News
Women now make up well over half of New Zealand’s journalism workforce, but they have serious concerns about their safety on the...
NZ communities gather in unity for He Whenua Taurikura Hui on...
By Jonty Dine, RNZ News reporter
The widow of the final victim in the 2019 terrorist attack says things have not improved for New Zealand...
Petition to officially name country Aotearoa delivered to Parliament
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...
Pasifika communities in NZ reach ‘key vaccination milestones’
RNZ Pacific
Ninety percent of Pacific people in Aotearoa New Zealand have had their first covid-19 vaccine, while 11 district health boards (DHBs) have reached...
Iwi urge pastor Tamaki to ‘follow science’ in fight against covid-19
RNZ News
An iwi that pastor Brian Tamaki descends from are calling him out to say he is putting Māori communities at risk.
This follows mass...
‘Covid-19 is on the doorstep of your houses,’ warns Henare...
RNZ News
New Zealand's Associate Health Minister Peeni Henare today thanked all Māori providers, iwi, hapū, practitioners, vaccinators and district health board (DHB) staff for...
Risk of ‘unequal outbreak’ hurting Māori, Pasifika, says top NZ epidemiologist
RNZ News
Epidemiologist Professor Michael Baker says his biggest concern is that the spread of the delta variant of covid-19 in New Zealand is an...
Effective NZ vaccination campaigns ‘must include’ Māori, Pacific leaders
By Rowan Quinn, RNZ health correspondent
The calls for New Zealanders to get vaccinated are becoming more urgent by the day as covid-19 embeds itself...
Seymour’s sabotage of Māori priority vaccine code ‘unbelievably cruel’
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
A Māori political leader has branded opposition neoliberal ACT leader David Seymour's act this week undermining an indigenous response to New...
Trevor Richards: How about an apology from NZ Rugby?
COMMENTARY: By Trevor Richards
Apologies have been in the news recently.
Last month, French President Emmanuel Macron told "French" Polynesia (Ma'ohi Nui) that French nuclear testing...
Māori Party calls for indigenous debate to address NZ racism, white...
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...
NZ should raise human plight of West Papuans at UN, says...
RNZ Pacific
A New Zealand explorer who trekked in West Papua before Indonesian rule says he is saddened to see what colonisation has done to...
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...
Auckland is the world’s ‘most liveable city’? Many Māori might disagree
ANALYSIS: By Ella Henry, Auckland University of Technology
While I am always happy to celebrate any accolades my country and city might garner on the...
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...
Shilo Kino: Your mana diminishes every time you switch on the...
COMMENT: By Shilo Kino
What were you doing during the foreshore and seabed hīkoi in 2004?
I wish I could say I was at the protest, gripping...
Crosbie Walsh: Parihaka, a Stuff apology to Māori and seeking truth
COMMENT: By Crosbie Walsh
Media giant Stuff, after a protracted study of its own history, announced this week that much that it has published on...
Our Truth, Tā Mātou Pono: Stuff introduces new Treaty of Waitangi...
By Katarina Williams, a senior reporter of Stuff
Stuff has introduced a new company charter with Te Tiriti o Waitangi at its core, after a...
University of Waikato launches taskforce to address racism
By Katie Todd, RNZ News Reporter
Academics who made allegations of racism at the University of Waikato are welcoming the outcome of an independent review.
While...