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Māori housing developer not concerned by Budget 2025 funding change
Kris MacDonald says they can build houses faster with lower overheads and with whānau engagement.
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An 'uncle's' Māori-driven rugby camp taking the world by storm
26 May 2025From Aotearoa to Mozambique, Troy Nathan has been touring the world for the past decade taking Haka Rugby Global to aspiring children of all different cultures.
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Tina Makereti: Cancer and finding her feet
25 May 2025In her debut essay collection, the award-winning Māori novelist takes a deep and direct look into her own "challenging and peculiar life".
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How Billy T winner Hoani Hotene uses te reo Māori in comedy
27 May 2025Hotene joins the likes of Kura Forrester, Jermaine Clement and Taika Waititi as past Māori winners of the prize celebrating emerging talent on the NZ comedy…
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Fourth time lucky? ACT's regulatory standards law may finally pass
26 May 2025This is the fourth time since 2006 a similar law has been proposed by the ACT Party during different governments.
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Regulatory Standards Bill passes first reading
The Regulatory Standards Bill has passed its first reading in Parliament.
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Bid to change Russell's name rejected
23 May 2025The Geographic Board say a proposal to change the name of the Northland town to its original Māori has been declined.
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Māori educators say Budget boost won't fix poor school buildings
Māori Medium schools received funding in the Budget for approximately 50 new teaching spaces.
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Budget: Māori question lack of targeted funding
23 May 2025But David Seymour says there should be no such thing as Māori funding.
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Māori education gets boost, targeted funding remains tight
22 May 2025$54 million in operational funding and another $50 million in capital funding has been allocated to increase Māori learner success by investing in curriculum support and teacher development.
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Photographer wins 2025 Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award
21 May 2025Ōpōtiki's Jazmin Paget-Knebel won for her photo documenting horse culture among rangatahi (young people).
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Homelessness told through the eyes of a wāhine Māori
21 May 2025A well-travelled wāhine Māori proves that home is what you make of it in a new short documentary.
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Celebration on court, censure in the House: Te Pāti Māori MPs' suspension sparks kōrero
20 May 2025While tikanga Māori is being sanctioned in Te Whare Pāremata, te reo Māori is alive and thriving on the netball courts of Tāmaki Makaurau.
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Bringing te reo and the environment together at Te Papa
20 May 2025Kura Reo Taiao, a three-day full immersion course, is giving a Māori voice to the environment.
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'We just awhi them': Iwi-led initiative tackles school attendance crisis
22 May 2025The initiative helped to re-engage more than 250 children with education last year.
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Hundreds protest proposed exclusion of Te Pāti Māori MPs
21 May 2025A lawyer representing Te Pāti Māori says its MPs were using haka in Parliament to express their frustration with the Treaty Principles Bill.
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Food insecurity in Porirua: 'There's real pressure on our whānau'
19 May 2025There has been a big spike in the number of whānau reaching out for essential supplies, says a marae in Porirua offering foodbank services.
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Tribal place names restored throughout central North Island
19 May 2025Mountains, a lake and scenic reserves are some of the sites that have been renamed.
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NZ's largest te reo Māori only netball event thriving
19 May 2025A kaupapa Māori netball tournament is committed to creating a space where te reo Māori is the norm - on and off the court.
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Te Pāti Māori suspension 'punishment for being unapologetically Māori'
20 May 2025Parliament is due to debate whether to suspend three Te Pāti Māori MPs for a haka during the first reading of the Treaty Principles Bill.
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Waitangi Tribunal military veterans inquiry hearings under way
19 May 2025The second of three Crown hearings this year for the Military Veterans Waitangi Tribunal Kaupapa Inquiry is beginning to hear evidence.
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Māori Queen emotionally gifted whale jawbone
19 May 2025Te Arikinui Kuini Nga wai hono i te po was brought to tears during her first official visit to the top of the South Island.
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Waitangi Tribunal recommends 'immediate halt' of Regulatory Standards Bill
16 May 2025It comes from the Tribunal's interim report into the bill, which follows a one-day urgent hearing early this week.
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Te Pūtahitanga o Te Waipounamu farewells staff
16 May 2025An independent evaluation of the agency's direct social investment model hailed it as an 'outstanding exemplar of an organisation delivering public services that actually work'.
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Parliament passes Ngā Hapū o Ngāti Ranginui Claims Settlement Bill
15 May 2025The Bill apologises for confiscating land and conducting a scorched earth campaign against Tauranga tribes.
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Rare parasitic plant rediscovered near Wellington
19 May 2025Te pua o te Rēinga, or wood rose, was thought to be extinct in the region.
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Te Mātāwai announces new board appointees to lead te reo revitalisation
15 May 2025Kiri Tamihere-Waititi, Penetaui Kleskovic, Kiwa Hammond and Ruakiri Fairhall have been appointed to the board.
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One of NZ's longest-running property disputes is back in court
16 May 2025In the 1830s, the Crown made a promise to Māori in Te Tauihu. The legal battle is still going.
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