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Andrew Robb (Photo: Supplied)
12th May, 2022

He maimai aroha: Anaru Robb, te reo advocate, political activist, journalist

'Anaru helped change history and the future of te reo in Aotearoa.'
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By Te Kuru o te Marama Dewes
Contributing writer
New subdivisions spring up around the wading birds in Papakura (Photo: Supplied; additional design by Tina Tiller)
11th May, 2022

Riding the tide home

As sea walls are chewed up and spat out like loose teeth, coastal property owners are scrambling to sell. All the while, Māori are packing up their cars and driving headlong into the eye of it.
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By Nadine Anne Hura
Contributing writer
Theia (Photo: Supplied)
10th May, 2022

Te Kaahu’s new reo Māori album Te Kaahu O Rangi, track by track

Theia talks us through the nine waiata on her stunning new album.
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By Theia
Guest writer
Māori Shed Party creator Tyra Wainui-Dunn. (Image: Bianca Cross)
10th May, 2022

The story behind the Māori Shed Party Spotify playlist

It's 29 hours long and has over 35,000 likes. Meet the person behind everybody's favourite playlist.
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By Charlotte Muru-Lanning
Staff writer
Don’t miss Auckland Art Gallery’s breathtaking Pacific feminist exhibition
6th May, 2022

Don’t miss Auckland Art Gallery’s breathtaking Pacific feminist exhibition

It features work from 12 artists – including one stunning piece being performed live one time only.
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By Tulia Thompson
Guest writer
Image: Tina Tiller
5th May, 2022

Story sovereignty: Māori taking back control of our narratives

'It’s speaking your truth unfiltered, uninterrupted, on your own terms, at all times.'
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By Trinity Thompson-Browne
Guest writer
From left: Te Wairoa Piripi, Hekiera Te Rangai, Huihi 
Pou-Patate, Te Huia Raureti, Mahu Te 
Mona and Te Wharerangi Parekawa all fought in the Waikato War (Photo: James Cowan, c.1914, 
Alexander Turnbull Library, 1/1-017975-g)
2nd May, 2022

Difficult history: How we remember – and forget – the New Zealand Wars

When it comes to traumatic events in our history, whose memory counts?
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By Don Rowe
Contributing writer
Image: Tina Tiller
29th April, 2022

The High Court’s ‘groundbreaking’ Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei judgment, explained

The latest development in a seven-year legal battle by Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei to assert its exclusive legal rights as mana whenua in central Auckland.
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By Charlotte Muru-Lanning
Staff writer
Image: Tina Tiller
Opinion
28th April, 2022

About all that ‘Māori nonsense’ on the radio

Most of us don’t see te reo as 'Māori nonsense', but as one of this nation's unique treasures – and thank goodness for that.
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By Rawinia Higgins
Guest writer
Te Aomihia Walker in Iceland (Photo: Supplied; additional design by Tina Tiller)
28th April, 2022

The ocean that binds us: How indigenous collaboration is helping to protect the moana

Thousands of years of indigenous knowledge can help rebuild our marine environments – and one Ngāti Porou wahine is leading the way.
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By Te Kuru o te Marama Dewes
Contributing writer
Image: Bianca Cross
25th April, 2022

The Indigenous women who got me to Oxford

Mother, grandmother, mentor, friend: these are the women whose dedication to Māori success helped carry me here.
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By Rhieve Grey
Guest writer
Image: Supplied/Bianca Cross
23rd April, 2022

Mō āke tonu: Moana Jackson, stories and faith

'Moana had an ability to treat everyone, even the unknowing, even those who’ve just showed up for the cause, with respect and interest and care. He made a person feel special.'
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By Nadine Anne Hura
Contributing writer
Te Wehi Wright and his whānau (Photo: Supplied)
21st April, 2022

The ongoing fight for Māori to school our own, our way

'They’ve constantly tried to fit us into a system that won’t ever be sophisticated or reflective enough to love and grow our tamariki.'
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By Te Kuru o te Marama Dewes
Contributing writer
(Image: Archi Banal)
17th April, 2022

The tragedy of being Māori and tone deaf

When music is so embedded in your culture, what happens if you can't sing?
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By Airana Ngarewa
Contributing writer
Patricia Grace, then and now (Photos supplied; photo illustration by Archi Banal)
17th April, 2022

Patricia Grace, the great navigator

'It’s more than a mindset, this resolute spirit. It is her very being.'
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By Ben Brown
Guest writer
Image: Archi Banal
14th April, 2022

Matariki is more than just a holiday

Rain or shine, our annual pre-dawn observance of the rising of Matariki reaffirms our Māoritanga.
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By Te Kuru o te Marama Dewes
Contributing writer
At odds over the Marsden Point response: Brad Flutey, Deborah Harding, Aperahama Edwards (Photos: Supplied)
12th April, 2022

‘Go home,’ iwi tell Marsden Point protesters as fresh splits open in occupation movement

It comes as recriminations fly between Flutey and other figures in the parliamentary occupation movement.
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By Toby Manhire
Editor-at-large
Ngāti Kahungunu and Rangitāne law student Safari Hynes (Photo: Supplied; additional design by Archi Banal)
7th April, 2022

‘Matua Moana made me want to be a thinker, an educator, an organiser and a doer’

A Māori law student on how the late Moana Jackson changed his life.
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By Te Kuru o te Marama Dewes
Contributing writer
Design: Tina Tiller
4th April, 2022

TV co-creators Michael and Matariki Bennett on whānau, fantasy and the art of letting go

The latest Beyond the Veil episode is about a family learning to let go, letting their daughter fly – in more ways than one.
By Matariki and Michael Bennett
Guest writer
Kaimahi from Te Hau Ora o Ngāpuhi at a mobile vaccination clinic (Photo: Supplied/The Spinoff)
1st April, 2022

More than any others, Māori are now lining up to get their first dose of the Covid vaccine

Among the more attention-grabbing daily Covid stats is one small number that attests to the tireless work of Māori health providers – first doses administered.
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By Meriana Johnsen
Guest writer

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