Māori
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Māori moko facial tattoos revived by a new generation with designs on the future
After brutal colonial-era efforts to suppress Māori culture, symbols of Indigenous identity are flourishing on…
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‘Pivotal’ Māori leader Tipene O’Regan made member of Order of New Zealand
Champion of Māori rights honoured by Queen for life of work dedicated to improving ‘economic, cultural and soc…
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New Zealand’s next kingmakers: who are the Māori party?
After an unexpected return to parliament, Te Pati Māori has grabbed headlines with its bold and uncompromising…
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NZ Māori party rules out right-wing coalition after next election
Co-leader Rawiri Waititi, whose party is expected to become kingmakers, accuses Act of ‘emboldening racism acr…
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New Zealand’s presbyterian church will offer future land sales to Māori iwi first
The major landowner says it has been on the ‘other side of history’ and wants to honour treaty New Zealand’s p…
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New Zealand’s dairy industry should stop using Māori culture to pretend it’s sustainable | Philip McKibbin
Dairying is not simply unsustainable, it also violates Māori values – including those that call for us to resp…
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Whiti Hereaka wins New Zealand’s Ockham fiction prize for novel subverting Māori myth
Kurangaituku, 'an epic poem of a novel’, won the Jann Medlicott Acorn prize at a ceremony that delivered ‘load…
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Appropriate use of force? Shooting of Māori man highlights high rate of NZ police killings
Over the past decade New Zealand’s rate of fatal police shootings has been 11 times higher than in England and…
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‘About time’: Māori Battalion veteran welcomes New Zealand effort to issue unclaimed war medals
Defence force works to match medals with families of up to 500 men who served in decorated unit during second …
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Remembering our past, warts and all, is not about making New Zealanders feel guilty
Confronting our history is not about creating discord, but rather about binding us together as a nation Anzac …
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In New Zealand, Māori co-governance is already underway – referendum or not
Instead of ripping apart the fabric of society, co-governance arrangements are already in place and largely pa…
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Moana Jackson was the most articulate, original and forceful intellectual of his generation | Morgan Godfrey
The lawyer, teacher and activist was without equal. New Zealand is so much poorer for his passing, but so much…
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Māori village nestled among hot springs reckoning with the return of foreign tourists
Residents of Whakarewarewa live in a unique landscape reliant on visitors for income – but that comes at an en…
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‘The gates of hell opened’: after decades, Māori survivors of state abuse are finally heard
Māori children faced not just the physical abuse, but the trauma of being cut off from their culture, New Zeal…
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Sydney is no place to build a Māori meeting house – it is disrespectful to Aboriginal people | Morgan Godfery
Marae embody deep connections to the land and are a statement of indigeneity – but Māori aren’t indigenous in …