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Te Ao Māori headlines with summaries.
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AI mistaking Māori woman as thief no surprise to experts
17 Apr 2024Māori AI and data ethicist Karaitiana Taiuru believes there are other Māori who have been affected but have not yet come forward.
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New Māori health facility opens in Hamilton
Hamilton's new Te Kōhao Health, Wellness and Diagnostic Centre is designed to give Māori in the region tino rangatiratanga over their own health.
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Tauranga to host national iwi forum
12 Apr 2024Tauranga is set to host the next National Iwi Chairs Forum from 1 to 3 May. The hui will bring together iwi leaders from across Aotearoa to deliberate on issues...
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The water tank programme that's changing lives
11 Apr 2024The iwi-led drought relief programme is also training workers along the way. Audio
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UN expert visits Motueka to learn about Nelson Tenths case
11 Apr 2024A United Nations indigenous rights expert has made a special visit to the top of the South Island to learn about the Nelson Tenths case and the Crown's breach of its legal obligations to Māori.
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Māori publisher scoops big prize at leading international children's book fair
10 Apr 2024Huia Publishers have won the Bologna Prize for the Best Children's Publishers of the Year, Oceania, at the Bologna Children's Book Fair in Italy.
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Kiingi Tuuheitia set to attend inaugural Traditional Pacific Leaders meeting in Hawai'i
10 Apr 2024Kiingi Tuuheitia will attend the inaugural meeting of Traditional Pacific Leaders in Hawai'i in June where climate change and environmental protection are likely to be at the top of discussions.
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Iwi steps in to ease gang tensions after rugby club van shot at
17 Apr 2024Mongrel Mob and Black Power leaders are confident the fracas was a "one-off", Ngāti Kahungunu chair says. Audio
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Olympic kākahu blessed ahead of Paris Games
16 Apr 2024The Māori King, Kiingi Tuheitia, has blessed the feathered cloak to be worn by New Zealand's flag bearers at the Olympic Games.
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Māori reconnecting with the night sky
9 Apr 2024Mana whenua are rediscovering a connection with the night sky, a Māori astronomer says.
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Urgent Waitangi Tribunal inquiry held into government Oranga Tamariki change
12 Apr 2024The Government has been warned against repealing Oranga Tamariki's Treaty commitments.
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Facial recognition: Mum's 'horrible' mistaken identity ordeal at New World
13 Apr 2024A Māori mum misidentified as a trespassed "thief" at a supermarket trialling facial recognition technology says she felt "racially discriminated" against.
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Builders keen on RMA change to push papakāinga housing
10 Apr 2024The coalition government agreement suggests removing the need for consent for dwellings less than 60 square metres.
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'We will not be silenced': Gisborne council backs Māori wards
8 Apr 2024Gisborne District Council has shown its support for retaining Māori wards as the government looks to bring back binding referendums.
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Govt's Māori wards reversal labelled 'complete overreach'
4 Apr 2024Reversing councils' ability to decide on Māori wards is "complete overreach by central government", LGNZ says.
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Ngāi Tahu reaches out to councils on Three Waters replacement
4 Apr 2024The move to help find solutions for ageing water infrastructure has the support of North Canterbury's mayors.
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Hapū occupies abandoned school, demand whenua back at no cost
3 Apr 2024The Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations has knocked back calls for the Crown to buy back land being occupied in Northland.
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Battle of Ōrākau commemorations: 'Don't let the fires go out on our whenua'
2 Apr 2024A large gathering marked the 160th commemorations of the battle of Ōrākau today, as the process to return the site to iwi hands nears its end.
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Pacific, Māori leaders seek legal personhood for whales
2 Apr 2024Kiingi Tuheitia and a Cook Islands leader are inviting other Polynesian countries to get behind the proposal.
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'We are the mokopuna our tīpuna have been waiting for'
29 Mar 2024Whānau of Mangaroa Marae are gathering in the Hawke's Bay settlement of Bridge Pa over Easter weekend to celebrate.
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Māori ward referendum 'an expense we don't need' – Masterton mayor
5 Apr 2024Masterton's mayor says holding a referendum for an already established Māori ward is an expense "we don't need" for an issue that has already been debated.
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Māori ward referendums: 'The idea it's about fairness is absurd'
5 Apr 2024Māori ward councillors say the government's plan to reintroduce referendums for councils to bring in their role is absurd and cruel.
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Changes to anti-racism plan 'render the plan pointless'
4 Apr 2024A tangata whenua caucus member says changes to the plan include a reduced focus on institutional racism and colonial racism against Māori. Audio
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Coalition delivers Māori wards ultimatum to councils
4 Apr 2024Councils that brought in Māori wards without polling residents will need to hold one - or scrap the wards they had set up, the government says.
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