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Sam Judd: Should water be a basic human right?
COMMENT: We should be focussing on providing clean, filtered water to as many people as possible, because it is a basic human right, writes Sam Judd. Not selling water off to an overseas company.
COMMENT: We should be focussing on providing clean, filtered water to as many people as possible, because it is a basic human right, writes Sam Judd. Not selling water off to an overseas company.
COMMENT: Te Ururoa Flavell explains the bill on encouraging a wider use of Maori language, which has it's final reading today.
A select committee is to consider whether law changes are needed to better recognise Maori cultural practices after the death of a family member.
Six leaders of Maoridom - including 3 knights and 2 dames - have slammed the Govt's decision to create a huge ocean sanctuary around the Kermadec Islands.
COMMENT: We must replace the criminal justice approach with health interventions, just as they did 15 years ago in Portugal, writes Dr Lance O'Sullivan and Tuari Potiki.
The Maori Party is calling for a "long overdue" law change to establish Maori wards on every district council in New Zealand.
COMMENT: New Zealand On Air is continuing on a path towards taxpayer funding for TV network current affairs shows.
A Maori academic who died suddenly during a celebratory occasion at the University of Waikato is being remembered as a passionate advocate and educator.
One of NZ's biggest shopping centre owners has bought a half share of Hamilton's The Base mall for $192.5 million.
The seven Maori electorates were among the 10 with the lowest turn-out - and those who voted had a much higher preference for the current flag.
New Zealand's biggest marine sanctuary is being challenged in the High Court by iwi who want to protect their fishing interests.
COMMENT: The tribunal has decided to hear from lawyers taking the Corrections Department to task over their handling of Maori in prisons.
Annette Sykes has told the Waitangi Tribunal a clause to protect the Treaty of Waitangi under the TPP does not offer the protection it appears to.
In this fantastical Kiwi detective story, Carl Bland's musings on truth and loss are framed as "three men in search of a playwright," writes Janet.
The tangi for Ranginui Walker last week highlighted his achievements as a commentator and contributor to the renegotiation of Maori-Pakeha relations over the last 50 years.
More than 1000 people gathered on the first day of a three-day tangi for leading Maori figure Emeritus Professor Ranginui Walker.
My grandfather's book of Sundowner columns in selected form is kind of my Bible. I still have dreams he is alive, if missing a few marbles, writes Alan Duff.
Rare pictures taken by possibly New Zealand's first female photographer are being put up for sale.
Tauranga's celestial navigator and voyaging waka skipper Jack Thatcher is due to take a prominent ceremonial role in New Zealand's nationhood celebrations at Waitangi today.
Iwi business interests are expanding from land-based models to embrace a variety of assets and enterprises.
Mavis Mullins is looking forward to seeing Lee Tamahori's new film, Mahana, inspired by Witi Ihimaera's novel about shearers, Bulibasha.
The last thing we need this morning is another lament about protests at Waitangi and this will not be one, writes John Roughan.
The first glimpse of a new Treaty of Waitangi museum has been revealed ahead of its official opening today.
The government gave funding to build a new museum on the Waitangi Treaty grounds that were gifted to the nation in 1932 by the Governor General at the time.
Holding the signing in Auckland in the week leading up to Waitangi Day does show an incredible sense of timing, writes Carwyn Jones.
No little boy or girl dreams of being a trade negotiator and David Walker was no exception.
This year's Waitangi "issue" has been selected. It has been determined that the TPP is the most pressing issue on the Maori agenda, writes Jon Stokes.
Treaty Negotiations Minister Chris Finlayson says if John Key does not go to Te Tii Marae he will avoid it as well.
Some Maori business leaders say there are risks with the TPP, but people should look at it again to see the benefits it offers for the Maori economy.