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More young people want to vote in New Zealand’s Māori electorates. What are they and how do they work?
Growing numbers of young voters are signing up to the Māori electoral roll as debate flares over the need for …
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New Zealand coalition votes to make English an official language as critics slam ‘cynical’ bill
Push to give English same status as Māori and NZ sign languages sparks backlash from opposition parties and li…
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‘The government doesn’t care’: Māori greet New Zealand PM with indifference at muted Waitangi
Subdued tone as political leaders spoke on eve of Waitangi Day amid some fatigue in Māori communities over div…
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Strike a pose: vogue balls go mainstream in New Zealand
Led by Māori and Pasifika queer communities, the counterculture has gone from performing in lounges and clubs …
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From ‘terrorist’ to national treasure, renowned Māori activist finally tells his own story
Tāme Iti’s colourful memoir covers his decades-long fight for Indigenous rights in New Zealand and takes aim a…
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UN to hear human rights complaint over New Zealand’s treatment of Māori
UN committee to consider claim by prominent Māori leader Tureiti Moxon that alleges government policies have h…
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‘Reframes history’: fears Māori knowledge diluted in plan to revise New Zealand curriculum
Minister rejects claims Māori history is being sidelined in rewrite which includes cutting some references to …
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Backlash after New Zealand government scraps rules on incorporating Māori culture in classrooms
Minister says obligations for school boards to ‘give effect’ to the treaty are unfair while critics argue the …
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Ancient preserved heads give up their secrets as Māori tattoos see resurgence
New research examines how traditional artists worked as revitalisation efforts see tā moko – Māori tattooing –…
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Jim Bolger, former New Zealand prime minister who drove reconciliation with Māori, dies at 90
Tributes flow from across political spectrum for man known for high ideals but also remembered for controversi…
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Guaranteed Māori seats on New Zealand councils to be slashed by more than half
Controversial law change that forced councils to put the fate of Māori wards to a public vote saw 25 vote to d…
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Guaranteed Māori seats on New Zealand councils to be slashed by more than half
Controversial law change that forced councils to put the fate of Māori wards to a public vote saw 25 vote to d…
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Nearly 100 years after her death, Oxford’s first female Indigenous scholar honoured
Mākereti Papakura died weeks before handing in her thesis at Oxford university documenting the life and custom…
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New Māori queen brings hope for New Zealand in first speech: ‘Being Māori is forever’
In her first public address, Nga wai hono i te po spoke of unity and said Māori must ‘walk a new path’Who is N…
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Why is the New Zealand government cutting Māori words from some school books?
Changes to readers for young children have sparked criticism from academics, authors and teachers, who have ca…