Tag: Treaty of Waitangi
Jacinda Ardern’s valedictory plea – ‘take politics out of climate change’
RNZ News
Former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern has used her valedictory speech to Parliament to ask the House to take the politics out...
NZ universities are not normal Crown institutions – they shouldn’t be ‘Tiriti-led’
ANALYSIS: By Dominic O'Sullivan, Charles Sturt University
As part of its aspiration to be “Tiriti-led”, the University of Otago has embarked on a consultation process...
Prime Minister Hipkins welcomes less politics, more commemoration on Waitangi Day
RNZ News
New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has described today's Waitangi Day dawn service as moving and says he welcomes the shift away from...
NZ’s Waitangi Day 2023 – why Article 3 of the Treaty...
ANALYSIS: By Alexander Gillespie, University of Waikato; Claire Breen, University of Waikato, and Valmaine Toki, University of Waikato
The heated (and often confused) debate about...
Ardern won’t back down on Māori advance if co-governance made key...
Whakaata Māori
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says her Aotearoa New Zealand government will not back down on advancing Māori issues, even if National frames co-governance...
Martyn Bradbury’s 17 editorial ‘no go’ zones for the NZ media
COMMENTARY: By Martyn Bradbury
Last month The Daily Blog offered its New Year infamous news media gongs -- and blasts -- for 2022. In this...
From evolving colony to bicultural nation, Queen Elizabeth II walked a...
ANALYSIS: By Katie Pickles, University of Canterbury
The death of Queen Elizabeth II brings to an end a long, complex and remarkable chapter in the...
‘With togetherness, we overcome,’ says NZ’s Ardern on Waitangi Day
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's prerecorded speech marking the historic 1840 Treaty of Waitangi between Māori chiefs and the colonial government made from the treaty...
Waitangi Tribunal rules NZ covid-19 response ‘put Māori at risk’
RNZ News
The Waitangi Tribunal has released a scathing ruling of the New Zealand government's covid-19 response and vaccine rollout, saying Māori were put at...
Perceptions over NZ’s public interest journalism project – saint or sinner?
SPECIAL REPORT: By Sri Krishnamurthi for Asia-Pacific Report
“Public interest journalism plays a crucial role in promoting the quality of public life, protecting individuals from...
Waitangi Day: Emerging Generation B changes face of Aotearoa
SPECIAL REPORT: Koro Vaka'uta, an RNZ Pacific journalist, reports on a Māori-Pasifika culture shift in Aotearoa New Zealand as the country today marks 181...
Mana Wāhine inquiry hearing: Original claimant Ripeka Evans gives evidence
By Māni Dunlop, RNZ News Māori News Director
New Zealand's Waitangi Tribunal has heard the voices of Māori women have been marginalised for far too...
Academics call for action over ‘racism’ allegations at University of Waikato
By Te Aniwa Hurihanganui, RNZ News Te Manu Korihi reporter
Allegations of casual and structural racism within the University of Waikato have been met with...
Waitangi Day 2020: ‘Give us the courage to walk comfortably in...
The dawn service and following breakfast at Waitangi early today. Video: RNZ News
By Māni Dunlop in Waitangi
More than 2500 people gathered this morning at...
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...
Crown breached Crimes Act over ‘depoliticising’ Treaty of Waitangi
OPINION: By Steve Edwards
The New Zealand government’s ongoing failure to acknowledge that the British Crown did not gain sovereignty over New Zealand in 1840...
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...
Top award for Māori, Treaty and colonial historian with new focus
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
One of New Zealand's best-selling and most-respected historians and social commentators, Professor Paul Moon, has been acknowledged for his contributions as...
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...
Iwi leaders join UN scrutiny of Treaty, indigenous rights
New Zealand’s performance on the Treaty of Waitangi, indigenous rights, privatisation of prisons and the Trans Pacific Partnership will be raised this week at...