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Cousins tells Māori stories with subtlety, kindness and aroha
The film adaptation of Patricia Grace’s novel is a hopeful glimpse at what could be a new era of cinema in New Zealand.
The film adaptation of Patricia Grace’s novel is a hopeful glimpse at what could be a new era of cinema in New Zealand.
If we want to meet the goal of one million speakers by 2040, it’s going to take a team effort.
What they thought they gave and what the coloniser claimed were separated by an abyss that was to have cataclysmic consequences for the Māori people.
The government has committed to urgently changing the law around the establishment of Māori wards. Those in opposition have a lot to say about it – but what are they actually saying?
An alternative to NZ’s constitutional framework would give Te Tiriti o Waitangi the mana it deserves and Māori a meaningful seat at the table.
Lawyer and commentator Kingi Snelgar has some programming recommendations for a stellar Waitangi Day line-up.
Duncan Greive and Leonie Hayden, former young hip hop heads and music journalists, discuss the new documentary and their memories of the era in New Zealand music.
Why are there so many offensive comments on the New Zealand Police Facebook page and are they breaking the law?
Continuing to display memorabilia emblazoned with the racial slur is choosing to ignore the history of the word, its racialised meanings and connection to slavery and white supremacy.
As more virulent Covid-19 strains threaten to breach our borders, the Māori Party co-leader calls on the government to take more drastic measures.
The conditions at Waikeria were called 'unfit for purpose' long before the protesters burned it down.
Prisoner advocate Sir Kim Workman on how New Zealand's human rights record has taken a battering, and the Māori-led measures that are actually working.
An excerpt in The Guardian in May claimed to have discovered the story of the "real Lord of the Flies". One Tongan writer believed it erased the voices of the boys themselves and the Tongan values and knowledge systems that prepared them for survival.
In seven short years the number of Māori women on remand has doubled, and you should be furious.
As the American media giant comes under fire for its treatment of POC contributors, it's time to talk about the whiteness of food media in Aotearoa.
For two decades, the police have been allowed to turn a blind eye to low-level cannabis use and possession. The problem is they don’t always use the same approach for all cannabis users.
There are many lessons climate scientists can learn from mātauranga Māori. Lesson one is: don't panic.