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Making a message from 2040
We are asking New Zealanders to choose help over handcuffs, prevention over prisons, and healing over punishment.
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We are asking New Zealanders to choose help over handcuffs, prevention over prisons, and healing over punishment.
A new sketch show on Comedy Central has heralded a new era for Pacific voices.
A campaign against a huge new dump north of Auckland has drawn together a coalition of iwi, local residents and local government.
Despite changes made to original plans, a group of rangatahi Māori says the Waikato Regional Theatre is still set to be built on their burial ground.
Mistrust in the government and generational trauma mean Māori communities are more at risk.
Whakamā refers to a state of personal or collective embarrassment and shame. Unabated shame can corrode the soul. Tikanga can fix and prevent it.
It’s long past time we officially recognised the Māori new year on Māori land.
While Matariki and Pūanga rose last month in Pipiri, they are most visible this month, in Hōngongoi (July). Our celebration of them continues.
As the settler government did in the late 1800s, it's time to erect monuments to the great people of this country, and maybe take some of the stink ones down.
Almost 170 years ago, Māori political processes were interrupted and displaced by a new, enforced electoral system. No wonder the Māori relationship to party politics is so complicated, writes Jo Waitoa.
A Ngāti Whātua historian on how the sharing of resources between Tāmaki Makaurau and Waikato goes back a very long way.
In seven short years the number of Māori women on remand has doubled, and you should be furious.
Sam Brooks talks to actress and director Miriama McDowell, fresh off a starring role in Head High and directing Ahikāroa.
A video of the arrest of an Auckland man has gone viral, as police violence goes under the microscope globally. It's all part of a familiar cycle, writes Emilie Rākete.
A new survey shows limited appetite from the public to restore Hamilton’s name to Kirikiriroa. But a Waikato kaumatua says he'll continue to push for change.
The head of production house Pango Productions lays out his vision for the future of Māori media – and there's no place for Māori Television in it.
A collective of four wāhine Māori artists, Mata Aho Collective work together to transform human-scale Māori weaving practices into atua-scale contemporary artworks.
