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Support for tourist village to restore ‘most beautiful name’
3 Nov 2023An iwi bid to change the name of National Park back to Waimarino has been accepted by the Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa NZ Geographic Board.
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Auckland Councillors call on Māori to get more involved in local body politics
3 Nov 2023The Auckland councillors who led a proposal to establish Māori wards hope a recent vote against the move will motivate Māori to get more involved in local body politics.
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Māori ward councillors one year on - 'We are the experts of our own whenua'
3 Nov 2023One year after their election, what do new Māori ward councillors make of the job and what advice do they have for councils who have yet to adopt Māori wards? Audio
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Will the ‘kōhanga reo generation’ transform politics in Aotearoa?
25 Oct 2023Analysis: The 2023 election saw a changing of the guard in Māori political representation with several verteran MPs losing their seats to members of the "kōhanga reo generation".
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Te Pāti Māori claims victory in 6 of the 7 Māori electorates
3 Nov 2023The special vote count has seen Te Pāti Māori claim victory in six of the seven Māori electorates, ousting incumbent Labour MPs Kelvin Davis and Peeni Henare.
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Kura from Tāmaki Makaurau scoops top kapa haka prize
2 Nov 2023Te Kura o Kaupapa Māori o Hoani Waititi Marae has taken out the top prize at Te Mana Kuratahi primary school kapa haka competition.
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Iwi-led census programme lifts Māori participation up to 92% in pilot rohe
1 Nov 2023An iwi-led initiative in Gisborne, Northland and Bay of Plenty boosted Māori participation in this year's census.
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Māori health leader losing hope for Hawke's Bay birthing unit
1 Nov 2023A Māori birthing unit recommended for Hawke's Bay is languishing in a queue of work Te Whatu Ora has had to pick up after DHBs were folded into the entity.
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Ceremony bestows 78 sets of medals to descendants of 28th Māori Battalion
30 Oct 2023A total of 78 sets of medals have been given out in an emotional ceremony, in recognition of members of the legendary 28th Māori Battalion, and presented to their descendants at Waitangi.
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Mana and manawa on display at national junior kapa haka finals
29 Oct 2023Tamariki from as far away as Northland are travelling to Nelson for the competition.
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Regional council approves Māori Constituency for 2025 elections
26 Oct 2023The move will ensure permanent place for Māori voices to be 'heard, embedded and carried forward' in decision-making, the council says.
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Primary school kapa haka contest Te Mana Kuratahi kicks off in Nelson
30 Oct 2023More than 1500 kapa haka performers from primary schools across Aotearoa are performing at a national competition in Whakatū Nelson this week.
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Māori chocolatier debuts at prestigious chocolate event in Paris
Many children grow up dreaming of living in a world of chocolate, but Thomas Netana Wright has made it his reality.
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'They don't know the history' - NZers know more about foreign wars than our own
27 Oct 2023Experts say commemorations of the New Zealand Wars are at risk of passing by unnoticed outside of Māori circles.
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Auckland Council's votes against Māori seats
26 Oct 2023Auckland Council has today voted to reject Māori seats for the city.
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How Ngāruahine plans to bring financial focus back home
25 Oct 2023Ngāruahine iwi is changing the way it spends and invests to bring more benefits back home to its whānau and the local area.
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Far North occupation highlights wider problem of hoons on dunes, iwi ranger says
24 Oct 2023An iwi ranger on the Far North's Karikari Peninsula says a furore over a beach access road is highlighting wider problems of vehicle damage to dunes and sacred places.
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Whanganui District Council votes for Māori wards
24 Oct 2023Whanganui is the last council in the Manawatū-Whanganui region to establish Māori wards.
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'We're on the precipice of change' - Remembering Aotearoa's history
24 Oct 2023Tauranga is hosting this year's Te Pūtake o te Riri - the national commemoration of the New Zealand Wars. Audio
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Maramataka the focus of new Puke Ariki Museum exhibition
22 Oct 2023The Māori lunar calendar and traditional practices of māra kai are the focus of a new exhibition at Puke Ariki Museum in New Plymouth.
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Surge in support secures four Māori electorates for Te Pāti Māori
15 Oct 2023Te Pāti Māori have secured four of the seven Māori electorates and will return to Parliament, which will be fronted by a National-led government.
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Majority in favour of Māori wards in Whanganui – council survey
17 Oct 2023The majority of those who took part in a council survey want to see Māori wards introduced in Whanganui.
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Māori sports app shares veteran broadcaster's vast dictionary
18 Oct 2023After decades of collecting and developing te reo Māori words for sports terms, sports commentator Hemana Waaka discovered he'd come up with something like an encyclopedia. Audio
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'We were horrified': Hapū occupy site to stop access road
18 Oct 2023An occupation is under way in the Far North where hapū are upset about a landowner's plans to put an access road through sand dunes they say are wāhi tapu.
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