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Tenant worries iwi would price tangata whenua out
Ngati Whatua state house tenant Apihai Pihema supports returning state housing to iwi in principle - but he worries that the rents could go so high that he might have to leave.
Ngati Whatua state house tenant Apihai Pihema supports returning state housing to iwi in principle - but he worries that the rents could go so high that he might have to leave.
Labour leader Andrew Little has proposed looking at giving Maori greater self-governance, possibly including the ability to make some of their own laws.
Three iwi now have assets valued at $2.7b but in the next few years, 30 to 40 will emerge with that financial firepower, one expert says.
Organisers of a Maori basketball tournament have hit back at accusations it banned non-Maori coaches and staff from entering the competition.
Education Minister Hekia Parata has released figures for the first time showing iwi by iwi how Maori children do in early childhood education, primary school and NCEA.
Organisers of a basketball tournament have been called on to allow a girls' team to play after they were refused entry because their coach wasn't Maori.
Last year, two notable New Zealand economists warned of dire consequences if our regional economies were allowed to run down from "benign neglect".
Government ministers have upped the pressure on Ngapuhi to get on with their settlement in the lead-up to Waitangi Day - and even the Governor-General got in on the act.
Imagine if Ngapuhi had settled in the 1990s, as Ngai Tahu and Waikato Tainui did.
Gareth Morgan says the National Party a decade ago was "harsh and intolerant" - but not many people turn up to hear him speak.
Former Maori Party co-leader Pita Sharples joked about putting his body on the line to protect the Prime Minister at Waitangi, but successor Te Ururoa Flavell won't be following suit.
Leading Maori tribes are lobbying to get first bidding rights for state houses when they start going up for sale this year.
Prime Minister John Key says he is expecting a "rough" reception at Waitangi this year as he walks into a hotbed of issues.
Historians and prophets, by the nature of their vocations, tend to look in opposite directions, writes Paul Moon.
Gareth Morgan is heading to Orewa to confront what he calls the "ignorance of Brash-think".
A number of Maori skulls in a macabre collection of almost 800 human skulls in Sweden are expected to be returned to Te Papa Museum in Wellington this year.
Greens co-leader Metiria Turei launched a stinging attack on John Key in his absence at Ratana today, saying his view of NZ's history was "outrageous and deeply offensive".
Pakeha nearly "exterminated" Maori and need to make good on the intent of the Treaty - including compulsory te reo in all primary schools, Gareth Morgan says.
But iwi group will not take its founding trustees to court to recover lost "Treelords" settlement cash because of cost and "ongoing damage to the reputation of the trust".
In response to a series of articles by Gareth Morgan about the Treaty of Waitangi, Joshua Hitchcock discusses rangatiratanga and what Maori are doing to achieve it.
So far we've identified the achievements of the Treaty settlement and reconciliation process, and flagged that the process is now being pushed beyond the point of being useful.
Yesterday we saw how progress has been made on matters where both language versions of the Treaty say the same thing. Those areas are predominantly natural resources and cultural treasures.
Much has been achieved since the renaissance of the Treaty of Waitangi began in 1975. That should be celebrated.
Former Maori Party co-leader Tariana Turia says the idea of formal recognition on the New Year Honours list didn't sit easily with her at first.
Mighty River Power and the Tuwharetoa Maori Trust Board have signed a deal over water in Lake Taupo, the terms of which the electricity generator says are confidential.
More than 500 people gathered on a hilltop in the Bay of Islands yesterday to celebrate the bicentenary of Pakeha settlement in New Zealand.
Multimillionaire property investor Peter Cooper helped build the country's most important new heritage structure which opens tomorrow in the Bay of Islands.
Last Friday, Whanganui District Health Board members voted 9-2 to spell the name of their hospital correctly as Whanganui with an "h".
Catherine Delahunty writes: Gareth Morgan has many interesting opinions and is well informed but his opinion piece on Maori representation on local councils requires a response.