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Reviewing the Dawn Raid movie, and our lost youth
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.
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.
Photographs of tūpuna Māori are fetching top prices at auction houses, with their descendants often forking out to 'bring them home'.
From 1846, various militia formed the New Zealand Armed Constabulary Force, to 'combat Māori hostiles and to keep civil order'. In 1885 they changed uniforms and became the NZ Police.
Heta Gardiner's questions offered a glimpse of a media world with different incentives, priorities and cultural values during the daily Covid-19 briefings.
Why is it so hard to find a party dress that's sexy and sustainable?
Now that a deal has been made, it’s time to set the record straight.
The woman who started it all on how they defied the odds and the doubters.
Like a yuck hāngī filled with bewilderment and Zoom, it's time to bury this year in the ground.
For the likes of Kīngi Tawhiao, Dalvanius Prime and Deborah Ngarewa-Packer, pōtae are much more than an accessory.
A morning spent exploring the new Toi Tū Toi Ora Māori contemporary art exhibition at Auckland Art Gallery with curator Nigel Borell stirred up many complex feelings, writes Ātea editor Leonie Hayden.
Imagine a raucous garage party, with better talent, lighting and sound: welcome to the Modern Māori Quartet's new show.
Once plentiful, Kauri and Tohorā now face the threat of extinction. To save them we need to listen to the message of Tiwaiwaka, writes Donna Kerridge.
Is the striking new architecture featuring Māori and Pacific art around our city just tokenistic add-ons, or are Māori and Pasifika architects and designers being given the opportunities they deserve?
Today, our parliament will declare a climate emergency. Three young climate leaders say it’s a grim marker of the scale of human-caused planetary collapse, but we need to ensure the government does not sacrifice the important for the urgent.
'It's about putting our pou in the ground and saying ‘OK, that’s our whakapapa, but it doesn’t have to be our legacy’.'
Photographs of tūpuna Māori are fetching top prices at auction houses, with their descendants often forking out to 'bring them home'.
The first class from the Māoriland MATCH programme are set to graduate today, injecting a fresh cohort of Māori voices into creative tech.