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Tangi for Dame Tariana Turia enters second day
5 Jan 2025Visitors and dignitaries from around the motu have been welcomed onto Whangaehu Marae, near Whanganui, as the tangihanga for the co-founder of Te Pāti Māori enters its second day.
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2024 in photos: Hīkoi mō te Tiriti
30 Dec 2024RNZ's Te Manu Korihi team looks back at the moments that shook te ao Māori in 2024.
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2024 in photos: Te tangihanga o Kiingi Tuheitia
29 Dec 2024RNZ's Te Manu Korihi team looks back at the moments that shook te ao Māori in 2024.
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2024 in photos: Waitangi Day
28 Dec 2024RNZ's Te Manu Korihi team looks back at the moments that shook te ao Māori in 2024.
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Carving found washed up on beach claimed
9 Jan 2025But how it ended up in the sea remains a mystery.
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Unprecedented number of submissions on Treaty Principles Bill
7 Jan 2025Parliament's website has been flooded with submissions, as the deadline to submit feedback on the Treaty Principles Bill draws close.
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Hui, protests, kotahitanga, and a new Kuini - A historic year for Māoridom
28 Dec 2024A hīkoi, a haka, and the rise of a new generation - RNZ unpacks a contentious and momentous year for Māoridom.
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Treaty Principles Bill submission deadline could be extended - expert
7 Jan 2025The legislation proposes to rewrite the treaty principles long-defined by the courts Audio
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Dame Tariana Turia laid to rest
7 Jan 2025The founder of Te Pāti Māori and champion of te ao Māori is being buried at her marae at Whangaehu.
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Jackson calls for Labour apology to Dame Tariana's whānau at tangi
Willie Jackson was among politicians past and present paying respect to Dame Tariana - and made the call for an apology.
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'She believed in people' - Tributes from across political parties for Dame Tariana Turia
3 Jan 2025A stern but loving auntie, a woman of unshakeable principle, the very definition of a wāhine toa - those are just a few of the tributes flooding in for Dame Tariana Turia.
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Māori political leader Dame Tariana Turia has died
3 Jan 2025The former Labour Party MP and Te Pāti Māori co-founder was recognised for her commitment to Māori.
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Former Race Relations Conciliator Wally Hirsh dies
1 Jan 2025Brought to this country by his German Jewish refugee parents in 1938, Hirsh said his membership of a minority gave him special sensitivity to race issues.
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Intricate carving found washed up in Northland
5 Jan 2025Mystery surrounds a large, ornate Māori carving found washed up on a Northland beach.
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'It's huge that my community picked me' - Gisborne deputy mayor to step aside
2 Jan 2025After 11 years in local government, while raising four kids as a single dad and co-parenting two, Gisborne's deputy mayor will not be seeking re-election in 2025.
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Dame Tariana Turia suffers a stroke, surrounded by family
2 Jan 2025The former politician is surrounded by her whānau after suffering a stroke earlier this week.
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Te Pāti Māori co-founder Dame Tariana Turia has died
3 Jan 2025The former politician suffered a stroke earlier this week.
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Whangārei hapū wins appeal against subdivision
23 Dec 2024The judges who threw out a consent for a Whangārei subdivision say it is one of the clearest cases they have ever seen of a site that should not be developed because of its significance to Māori.
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Treaty law submission help honed for future Bills
22 Dec 2024Sessions to help Taranaki whānau have their say on the Treaty bill moving through Parliament are being fine-tuned to help address future legislation affecting Māori rights and interests.
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Z Energy renames stations with 'correct' kupu
23 Dec 2024"This is not about ticking a box per se, this is about a bigger sort of commitment that we have to te reo Māori."
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Signs of the hīkoi: More than just 'words on cardboard'
22 Dec 2024The placards seen at the Hīkoi mō Te Tiriti conveyed "huge kōrero with immediacy", expert says: "People know the power of the word."
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Mongrel Mob member's rēwana bread helping feed hungry whānau
21 Dec 2024Support from the community will see 20 loaves of Vonz Kaukau's bread added to an Upper Hutt foodbank ahead of Christmas.
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PM skipping Waitangi 'good first step' - hīkoi organiser
"There's no point in speaking to ears that will not listen to, minds that will not change," Eru Kapa-Kingi says.
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