Nadine Millar (Ngāti Hine, Ngāpuhi) has a background in journalism, education policy and kaupapa Māori research. Her essays explore themes of identity, biculturalism, politics and parenting.
All those dedicated, diligent hands working together to hold you here, on this side of the veil.
Car keys hang on the hook in the hall. Empty mattresses wait in the lounge. No pots needed because there are no extra mouths. The jug sits cold.
Some mornings I am woken by tapping at the window and urgent, piercing calls: 'He’s gone, did you know? Did you hear the news?'
How can we talk about solving this sickness if we don’t acknowledge its fundamental causes? We are unwell because Papatūānuku is unwell.
In the first of our new Sunday Essay series, Nadine Anne Hura re-examines the colonial fiction of the nuclear family.
For Māori, if our whenua drowns, we drown.
This is what grief taught me: that creating is the only true antidote to death.
There are many lessons climate scientists can learn from mātauranga Māori. Lesson one is: don't panic.
Nadine Anne Hura reflects on love, loss and regret on this first Christmas without her brother.
Like hundreds of thousands of others, Nadine Anne Hura’s brother couldn’t see the point in participating in a system that didn’t make space for him, much less represent him.
He was different, like Māui. Equal parts curious, reckless, determined and brave, he couldn’t leave things alone. He needed to know.
Sometimes you can make all the wrong decisions for all the right reasons.
There are many lessons climate scientists can learn from mātauranga Māori. Lesson one is: don't panic.
At a recent Aotearoa Climate Emergency meeting in Wellington, the topic under discussion was a Citizens’ Assembly to work towards cross-party agreement on climate action. Nadine Hura went along to ask what a citizen looks like and who gets to decide.
We need to amplify indigenous voices around the climate emergency, but what does that mean in practice?
I’ve seen more sober sunrises now than I can count, and each one holds more meaning for me than any cocktail hour.
Nadine Anne Hura is one of six writers who have been selected for Te Papa Tupu 2018, a writing programme for Māori voices. We asked her what it means for her as a Māori writer.
Whether it's one glass while making dinner or a few at kids' birthday parties, it's often hard to separate motherhood from drinking. Mother of three Nadine Anne Hura writes about why she finally decided to quit for good.
Nadine Anne Hura shares the challenges of encouraging te reo Māori with teenagers and the joy of total immersion environments for all of the whānau.
Essayist Nadine Anne Hura discovers a town alive with the voices of the past.
Essayist Nadine Anne Hura goes looking for one ancestor's story, and asks what really lies underneath our monuments to war.
We should promote everyone having a go at learning te reo Māori – but please think twice before you ask a Māori person to do the heavy lifting for you, writes Nadine Anne Hura.
Nadine Millar writes a love letter to her beloved Porirua, and asks 'What's in a name?'
A high school debate tournament highlighted the unconscious Euro-centric bias at the heart of the New Zealand education system, writes Nadine Millar.
I only started studying te reo at Te Ataarangi this year, but I knew straight away that there was something different about it – and not just the fact that we use cuisenaire rods instead of pen and paper, writes Nadine Millar.
