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Maori men suffer in disability statistics
An official report has uncovered starkly unequal lives for New Zealand's main ethnic groups.
An official report has uncovered starkly unequal lives for New Zealand's main ethnic groups.
Actor Cliff Curtis has been welcomed home with Te Tohu Tiketike o Matariki Supreme Award at the inaugural Matariki Awards.
COMMENT: This columnist usually stays away from politicians. But then Hone announced a comeback.
An original art work depicting Captain Cook's arrival in the Pacific is being restored for display at Te Papa.
Rawiri Paratene reckons he could be the most well-travelled New Zealander in the world - and even if he's not, his travels have still made history.
A hikoi of almost 1000 people arrived at Parihaka marae today, led by "recovering racist" and New Plymouth mayor Andrew Judd.
COMMENT: For over 50 years, Tangata Whenua on the Te Atatu Peninsula in Auckland have been in a struggle to get back a piece of land to build a marae, writes Sam Judd.
COMMENT: There I was, dry-mouthed, hands trembling, clutching my cue cards in sweaty hands. It was my final assessment for the Maori language course.
Maori Development Minister Te Ururoa Flavell has secured $17.8 million to get a new Maori land service up and running.
COMMENT: We can't let Moko Rangitoheriri's death be forgotten - or be a vengeful mob storming the Taupo police cells to lynch Moko's evil killers.
Maori grass skirt worn by a British naval captain during World War I's largest sea battle has gone on display.
COMMENT: Only one race in postcolonial countries needs dedicated seats on its governing bodies. Immigrants don't need them, indigenous minorities do.
Pipeline was to carry human and industrial waste from Tauranga through the middle of mostly Maori-owned peninsula.
COMMENT: Treaty settlements are giving iwi back the power to be key players in Auckland's ongoing development.
COMMENT: Maoris are more in need of learning parenting skills than are non-Maoris and that applies to a lot of Pacific Island parents too.
COMMENT: Maori rights to fresh water deserve a better quality of debate than we've seen recently, writes Susan Guthrie.
Thousands of heads, skulls, skeletons and bones of indigenous Maori and Moriori were taken from New Zealand by European and American anthropologists.
COMMENT: I do think we Kiwis need a really good national anthem. Like Kapa O Pango did to the All Blacks' haka. A big, beautiful anthem like the Welsh, writes Alan Duff.
Forget Carpool Karaoke, New Zealand has its own show and it's for the people - not just celebrities.
Maori prayers could be banned from the classroom if campaigners are successful in their bid to remove religious instruction from state schools.
COMMENT: You know life can change for a few people to something unrecognisable. But I don't think the basics change, at least with most, writes Alan Duff.
An anonymous benefactor has given Youthline's Youth Health Service a $20,000 boost that will enable the service to keep its doors open.
COMMENT: That New Zealand is a highly imprisoned country is pretty widely known - but even those who know the numbers can be excused some confusion.
COMMENT: It is ludicrous to suggest that, when Maori sold land, they imagined that they retained an ownership interest in the water which flowed over it.
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa has made an emotional pilgrimage to the bloodiest battlefield of World War I to reflect on sacrifice made by Maori Pioneer Battalion.
COMMENT: No other indigenous people has the same lucky historic, geographic and genetic circumstances as we do. We have to be grateful, writes Alan Duff.
COMMENT: The most recent issue to get the "more to Kiwi than iwi" treatment - from a disaffected group of extreme, right-wing, former politicians - is water rights.