Tag: Waitangi
Waitangi Day 2024: Thousands of visitors, one clear message – ‘Toitū...
By Pokere Paewai , RNZ News Māori issues reporter, and Shannon Haunui-Thompson, Te Manu Korihi editor
Before the sun rose and the birds started singing...
Waitangi: Luxon faces questions after day of speeches at Treaty Grounds
RNZ News
The crowd booed a combative Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters and drowned out Associate Treaty Minister David Seymour, while Prime Minister Christopher Luxon...
Former Pacific minister ‘lights fire of spirit’ supporting Māori at unity...
By Ruci Farrell of Pacific Media Network
Pacific peoples joined with tangata whenua at the weekend, calling on the Aotearoa New Zealand government to uphold...
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...
Titewhai Harawira, a ‘feisty, staunch, protector’, dies, aged 90
Te Ao Māori
Northland kuia Titewhai Harawira has died in Avondale, aged 90.
Titewhai Harawira was a familiar face at Waitangi Day celebrations where she frequently...
Kaitiaki block ‘particularly dangerous’ anti-vax protesters at Auckland border
By Sam Olley, RNZ News reporter
Ngāti Whātua kaitiaki remain in bolstered numbers at the border between Tāmaki Makaurau and Te Tai Tokerau to stop...
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...
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...