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New Year Honours list 2024: The 151 recipients
30 Dec 2023Screen and stage fixture Ian Mune is one of five new knights and dames appointed.
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The 'affirmative action' scheme that ACT wants reviewed
18 Dec 2023A review of the long-standing admissions programme for Māori and Pasifika medical students is either 'pointless' or 'perfectly sensible', depending on who you ask.
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Crown move a 'blatant disregard' of Te Tiriti o Waitangi principles - advocates
22 Dec 2023Māori health advocates say a Crown memo opposing an urgent Waitangi Tribunal inquiry demonstrates a 'blatant disregard' of Te Tiriti o Waitangi principles.
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'It started from a place of need': Making bread with Māori values
A Māori-owned bakery in Wellington is bringing pretzels, rēwena bread and manaakitanga to its new store in the eastern suburbs.
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'Fanaticism and barbarism': 'Offensive' Whanganui war memorial to be removed
23 Dec 2023The country's oldest war memorial will be removed from an historic Whanganui reserve following objections to an inscription condemning upriver Māori for "fanaticism and barbarism".
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Auckland Marae's Christmas drive prioritises helpers in need
21 Dec 2023A Papakura marae is inviting whānau doing it tough and already working with the marae to the Christmas drive.
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'Wānanga' must be protected term - Minister
21 Dec 2023Tertiary Education Minister Penny Simmonds wants to restrict the use of the term 'wānanga'.
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Rotorua Lakeland Queen owner told to build, gift, then lease new jetty
18 Dec 2023The paddle boat was once a common sight on the lake but has been sitting on dry land for the last three years. Local Democracy Reporting's Laura Smith finds out why.
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Shane Jones' 'pixie-like' hapū comment labelled arrogant by iwi
A South Taranaki iwi has described Shane Jones' comments describing hapū members as "pixie-like" for their resistance to seabed mining as unbecoming and arrogant.
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New pods in marae to help prepare for natural disasters
19 Dec 2023Emergency pods will be set up at 24 marae in the South Island in a bid to be better prepared in the face of a natural disaster.
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Te Tiriti o Waitangi exhibition will be 'renewed', Te Papa says
19 Dec 2023Te Papa co-leaders say the exhibition, which has been at the museum since opening day in 1998 "needs to change to meet the needs of today".
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Rangatahi Māori activist wins Amnesty International award
19 Dec 2023Te Matahiapo Safari Hynes wants to create new online resources that inspire and inform.
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Crown acknowledges it did not consult Treaty partner on axing of Māori Health Authority
The Crown has opposed an urgent bid to the Waitangi Tribunal to stop government plans to disestablish Te Aka Whai Ora.
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Kaumātua's spiritual, cultural views part of new dementia diagnosis tool
17 Dec 2023A new assessment tool is poised to revolutionise the diagnosis of mate wareware (dementia) in Māori kaumātua.
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Visitors reminded not to scatter human ashes at Cape Reinga
14 Dec 2023Ngāti Kuri have issued a public notice reminding people not to scatter the ashes of human remains at Cape Reinga as it is traditionally recognised as a place of spiritual transition for Māori.
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New Ngāi Tahu chair lays out challenges ahead
14 Dec 2023Protecting the taiao and promoting intergenerational transmission of te reo are the big challenges ahead for Ngāi Tahu, according to the iwi's new chairperson.
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Dismantling Te Aka Whai Ora would reverse hard work - Lady Tureiti Moxon
Lady Tureiti has filed an urgent claim with the Waitangi Tribunal alongside Māori primary health leader Janice Kuka, citing concerns the health agency will result in prejudice. Audio
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What English being an 'official language' would mean
14 Dec 2023The coalition deal between NZ First and National refers to giving English official status. But what would that involve?
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Waitangi Tribunal bid made in attempt to stop abolition of the Māori Health Authority
Lady Tureiti Moxon and the head of a Māori primary health organisation, Janice Kuka, have made a request for an urgent hearing regarding the government's plans.
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Has the new Treaty Negotiations Minister changed his views on colonisation?
13 Dec 2023Everyone will have a different point of view about history, Paul Goldsmith says.
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Iwi hopes to purchase 'spiritually significant' land from RNZ
13 Dec 2023Te Rūnanga o Toa Rangatira are negotiating the possible purchase of 50 hectares of land owned by RNZ at Tītahi Bay in Wellington.
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'We're not too young to be affected': Rangatahi lead hīkoi in Blenheim
13 Dec 2023When protests were taking place across the country led by Te Pāti Māori, "Blenheim was a little bit shy".
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School scrapping te reo Māori unit 'a step backwards'
13 Dec 2023Parents say they are shocked and angry with a Whakatāne primary school after it decided to scrap a bilingual teaching unit without consultation. Audio
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New Te Pāti Māori MPs make defiant debut speeches
12 Dec 2023Two new Te Pāti Māori MPs have made their debut in Parliament, promising to defend against attacks on their language and culture.
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